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Who doesn’t love Abe Vigoda

Mark Evanier, whose blog I’ve posted before has a great story about Abe Vigoda cursing out Close Encounters of the Third Kind at the premier screening in 1977. Actually, the story’s about telling people the ending of movies and it’s all funny. But in the middle, Abe Vigoda’s total confusion at Spielberg’s breakthrough had me […]


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spider

no comment but awesome. And about time. I’m sick of elevators now that I work on the 14th floor. What am I talking about? Go to cnn.com and find out.


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fuel to the fire

Supporting Chris’s argument on the blog a few months ago, here’s an editorial on why Superman sucks.


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C3PPPPPPP O!

I was planning to post this just because Chris would like the domain name. However, recently they’ve shown the dark tale of C3PO’s pornographic past. I give you the ALL NERD REVIEW!


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Kermit sells out

In 2000, a German company called EM.TV bought the Jim Henson company. They started losing money immediately. Last year they sold the Sesame Street characters to Children’s Television Workshop. Meaning that Cookie Monster and Gonzo are now owned by two totally separate companies.
Then the bidding war happened. Sad thing was, the bidding war […]


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news from blog

Usually when somebody recommends a blog, it’s a friend of their’s doing it (such as the fantastic tremble.com. Somebody needs to put me in a room with Todd Levin and a few drinks). But today I was reading news from me which is run by Mark Evanier, a guy I don’t know but […]


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Something to look forward to..

I’ll be the first to admit it. I’m jaded. I look at everything with one eyebrow permanently raised and find everything has a streak of darkness inside it somewhere. However, when I see something like the trailer for “A Mighty Wind” all that goes out the window and I laugh my ass off over and […]


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for chris’s birthday

This is real. Forget Superman. Forget the Fantastic Four. I now present to you the worst superhero ever… RAINBOW BOY!!!


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Looking for a heartbeat

Or the inevitable heart attck in a German prison. i don’t know how legit this is but I got this email yesterday.
Miami Vice’ Actor Johnson Probed Over $8.3 Billion, Times Says
2003-03-12 02:48 (New York)
Berlin, March 12 (Bloomberg) — Don Johnson, the American star of the 1980s television series “Miami […]


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Those about to rock

This may be the first good news I’ve read on cnn in the last two years. For once I agree with every inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Police, the Clash, Elvis Costello, the Righteous Brothers, AC/DC, not a loser in the bunch. Elvis Costello and the Police […]


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snowball fight

Drop this one in the “What Kind of World Do We Live In?” file. Says here on cnn.com that a man shot a little girl for throwing a snowball at his daughter. Yes, we are using firearms in SNOWBALL FIGHTS! There truly is no limit to the overrreactions we Americans are capable of (insert […]


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Free Enterprise!

Well, it took me a few years but I’ve finally given something back. Yep, I’m finally selling something on ebay. It’s guitar equipment so I know not all of you will be fighting over it, but if any of you guys (we’ve got a few players here) could use a Tony Iommi signature humbucker […]


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