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Near Dark
(1987) ** Horrorthon ’09 is “officially” over (and I’ve already done my summation), so I don’t feel compelled to do a particularly circumspect job on this flick. I wasn’t even going to review it,...
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It’s starting to look like Avatar is actually really good
When even those grouchy depressed snotty hipsters on Gawker publicly apologize for attacking Avatar (and sing its praises), it starts to look like ol’ James Cameron pulled it out. Apparently he aimed...
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Coconut-Carrying Octopus: First Evidence Of Tool Use In Invertebrate,...
This is so amazing and wonderful! You just have to watch it. From the Associated Press (via Huffinton Post): AP– SYDNEY — Australian scientists have discovered an octopus in Indonesia that collects...
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Silent Hill
(2006) **** If you drew a straight line from The Matrix to Dark City and then extended the line along the same axis, you’d eventually hit Silent Hill, French director Christophe Ganz’ feverishly...
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Your Complete Guide to Saving Movie Theater Seats
From Defamer: “I’m laying down some ground rules about movie theater seat saving, because I’m sick of having the film ruined by you assholes…If you can not follow them, then you have to sit in the...
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Crossing the “Uncanny Valley”
[UPDATE: I added "behind the scenes" images from Digital Domain; scroll down.] I haven’t seen Avatar yet, so I can’t comment, but I’ve noticed that everyone’s giving James Cameron’s team credit for...
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Avatar
A whole bunch of stupefied guys who just saw Avatar (2009) ** [UPDATED BELOW] 1) I didn’t like AvatarI didn’t like Avatar. However I am not here to start a fight. I’m not indignant or resentful or...
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Cartoon Jordan
I didn’t comment on Johnny Sweatpants’ sublime post from Monday only because the whole thing was so perfect that I didn’t want to risk messing it up. But not only am I delighted that “Cartoon Jordan”...
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Cartoon Jordan and Cartoon Octopunk
I’m pretty sure this is the first thing (or the main thing) Octopunk is referring to here. Birthday card from slightly more than ten years ago. How about that. Click for larger image. Share:FacebookEmail
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Master of the Sideways Hand Technique
On the subject of mastering trivial tasks, here is my cat “Little Cat” (illustration above) who demonstrates a profound mastery of the fabled feline “Sideways Hand Technique” (see fig. 1 above). (Note...
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“The Expando Machine” is done (in HD!)
After a long development process I’m finally done with my epic animated trilogy The Expando Machine (which is only about five minutes long in total). This weekend I made HD versions; I strongly...
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“The Expando Machine” 1991 original versions
Here are the original 1991 versions of the Expando Machine cartoons, made back when I actually lived on Columbus Avenue and had a cat named Mugsy. I used a Macintosh SE (the computer that’s actually in...
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A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope
“Oh, no!”Five years ago, Keith Martin, a Star Wars fan (whose other characteristics are unknown to me), thought very hard about the implications of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and how it integrates...
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The old paperbacks! (updated below)
I dropped by my parents’ house today on unrelated business (my Mom’s computer…don’t ask) and finally decided to deal with this specific box of old paperbacks that has been sitting in the corner of my...
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The Old Paperbacks! Pt. II: Complete Blish Covers
About a week ago I posted photographs of the contents of a box of old paperbacks I’d retrieved from my parents’ house. Of course you all immediately noticed the glaring omission in that post: I display...
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James Blish
See? See? This is who I was dealing with while reading those Star Trek paperbacks I discussed below. Look at the picture! Exactly the guy you want relating Kirk & Co.’s adventures, right? (It was...
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That Big Thing Back There
Another old paperback, sandwiched between some other sci-fi on a difficult-to-reach bookshelf. Check this out! (You really have to click to see the large version.) When I was ten or eleven years old...
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That Big Thing Back There 3
Here’s the aforementioned Michael Whelan, just fucking going for it in the TBTBT annals with these pictures for Stephen King’s first The Dark Tower volume, called The Gunslinger. (That’s the man...
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That Big Thing Back There 5
Scanned from one of my “Space Books.” (Click for much larger images.) Two by Angus McKee (top). (See Octopunk’s TBTBT2 post for two more by the same artist.) Sometimes That Big Thing Back There is...
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