Hellboy Minifigs

These Hellboy minifigs are sick! My favorite one is Lobster Johnson.

The Golden Compass

I finally had a chance to see The Golden Compass movie based on the first book in Phillp Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. I was really looking forward to watching it once it got on Blu-Ray. I wasn’t disappointed. It was as fantastic as imagined it would be. The only problem was that it wasn’t five hours longer! Now, bring on The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass immediately!

Five Table Elimination Domination

I could hardly believe it this week on TNA when Christian Cage along with A.J. Styles and Rhyno called out Kurt Angle and The Dudley Boys for a five table elimination match. How does that work? Six men, five tables, once a man gets thrown through a table he’s eliminated leaving the last man not thrown through a table the winner. My prediction is Christian Cage and his outfit winning, but well see on Thursday!

The Spirit Of 1776

I posted earlier this month that I was in the process of watching John Adams and how great the graphics package was that opened each episode. Here is the graphics package I was talking about. Please give it a look. If you’re an American and that video dosen’t zing your spine and make you proud I wouldn’t know what to say about that. While I was watching John Adams I kept asking myself two questions. 1. How could 56 great men all exist at one time and in one place? Were they born great or did they rise to their greatness because of circumstance? 2. Am I living as an American the way our founding fathers intended and sacrificed for and could I look them in the face without shame if the oppotunity ever presented itself? For the first question I came to the conclusion that 56 men rose to greatness because circumstances demanded them to do so. It was actually more than 56 men when you count the citizen army of militias and their commanders. It was thousands of people rising up and putting their lives, livelihood, and reputations on the line in order to say no to the King. Everyone, not just Americans has the potential to be great, and because of circumstances everyone reached that potential. The answer to the second question is sadly, I must say, no on both counts. Even though it’s my dearest wish to some day speak with Thomas Jefferson either in this world or the next I don’t believe I could do it without feeling ashamed. However, this is something I could rememdy and I will try my best to do so.

Dr. Horrible

The first episode of Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is up, and, of course it’s awesome. How could it not be? It’s Joss Whedon.

One More Chance

I’ve been wanting to play Star Ocean 1 & 2 for a long time now, but I wasn’t going to pay 70-80 dollars for a Playstation game. It looks like I get my chance because Square-Enix is releasing those two games again on the PSP. It also looks like they’re adding some extra icing on the cake too like new animations and sprites and such.

An Unfortunate Tragedy

Yesterday there was some insane rain. So insane in fact that where I usually keep the lawnmower was beginning to get flooded so I had the bright idea to bring the lawnmower in before key components got ruined. Little did I know I also brought in a snake. Now, I’ve lived my whole life with the adage that there ain’t no good snake except a dead snake unless it’s a King Snake. So for over 10 hours I was unaware that I was going about my business with a snake in the house. Finally it was getting along towards 11:30 I was happily playing Dot Hack when my dog started barking something fierce. I came to see what the ruckus was about and that’s when I saw the nasty slithering tail go behind some boxes. My first instinct was to get the dog out of the crate and I did and he, of course, charged off in the opposite direction. He’s not stupid. Why mess with something that’s not messing with you, but it was messing with my peace of mind. Who wants a snake in the house? I wanted to go get my rifle, but I couldn’t take my eyes off of it and plus I don’t usually keep it loaded. My second choice was a hoe to cut off it’s head. I tried three times to kill it, but it kept pushing back. I was too tired to fight at almost twelve so I moved into another part of the house and this morning got my friends, my uncle and his friend and started moving boxes. No snake. After several hours we came to the conclusion that he had somehow escaped the premises, however we kept looking and suddenly there he was coiled up in a basket. Thank goodness we kept looking to make sure. My uncle’s friend blasted him with five rounds of rat shot and we took him outside. The tragic thing about it was the snake was a young King Snake. King Snakes eat poisonous snakes. He was the one good snake looking to get in out of the rain and I killed him because I accidentally brought him into the house.

A Series Of Unfortunate Smackdowns

I thought it was humorous of Mick Foley to make a nod to Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events this week. I’m a big fan of the Lemony Snicket books. At first I thought it was a poor man’s Harry Potter, but I was completely wrong. It’s just as good as Harry Potter and should get some more play in the Kids Book game. Mick Foley is himself a Kids Book author, but not on the scale of Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket, but then again he’s got other things to do such as commentating on Smackdown matches. This week on Smackdown I was hoping they were going to get Edge to do a face turn after calling off the wedding with Vicki Guerrero which was hilarious last week. I suspected they were going to make Edge go through all kinds of trials and then win the title from Triple H at the Great American Bash. No such luck though. By the end of the show Edge was still a heel and he made up with Vicki Guerrero and therefore the wedding is still on. That’s all good for Triple H though because with Edge still being a heel I’m sure Triple H will retain his title one more time.

Mash It Up Again

The more times I see this Everlast cover of Folsom Prison Blues the more I like it. It’s really just a mashup of Johnny Cash and Cypress Hill’s Insane In The Brain with Everlast singing, but if you think about it that’s pretty cool!

Babysitting

My friend went out of town last week and asked me to watch his puppy, Jenny while he was away. I thought it wasn’t going to be a big deal, but it turned out to be quite the challenge to get her used to the routines of me and my dog. Every day got a little bit easier and then all of a sudden it was time for her to go home. Next time I’ll know what to do and things won’t be as hard from the start. If you want to see some fottergrafs of Jenny head over here.