100,000 Hits

If I can just keep up this pace I should get my first million hits in just under a quarter of a century! Yes, yes, meaningless I know but I suppose bloggers are supposed to keep track of this sort of thing. Thanks as always to everyone who visits Brain Rage; the visitor from Whittier, California has 1 hour to collect their prize.

Sucker Punch Trailer

I have no idea what this movie is about but I'm fairly certain that I'm going to end up seeing it:


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Barack Obama Looking At Awesome Things

A new niche blog. The Sword of Omens is the first post and my personal favorite.

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Picture Of The Day

OK, go ahead and forget everything I said about the painting of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber redefining the word "awesome" because this painting of him fighting motherfucking Darth Vader just claimed that distinction.

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Picture Of The Day

Just go ahead and forget everything you know about the word "awesome" because this painting of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber just redefined it.

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Remote Controlled Flying Millennium Falcon

I want, I want, I want:

Han Solo once bragged that the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs…and now fans can give it their best shot with the all-new Star Wars R/C MILLENNIUM FALCON! For the first time ever, the MILLENNIUM FALCON — the most beloved and iconic Star Wars ship of all-time — is available as an indoor flying remote control vehicle. Measuring an impressive 11 inches long and 8 inches wide, the largest flying Star Wars R/C to date is highly detailed, easy to fly and includes a charging controller and vehicle battery for up to five minutes of flying time.

It retails for $49.99, is coming out this fall and will make .5 past lightspeed. I plan on breaking a lot of shit around my house around six months from now.

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[Update: Just ran across my most favoritest flash mob to date:


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The World's Most Talented Man

This guy can do everything better than you:


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American Power And "Epic Fail!": An Observation

I've noticed a somewhat amusing trend lately over at my conservative counterpart Donald Douglas' site American Power: The extreme overuse of the term "Epic Fail" to describe anything and everything he disagrees with, particularly in the exclamatory sense. I've addressed his use of the term before but recently the problem has gotten much worse. You know that uncomfortable feeling you get when an older female relative tries to dress as if she's still in her 20's and she just ends up looking sadly pathetic and tragically unhip? That's how I feel watching an uptight, fifty year old neoconservative repeatedly beat that Internet slang term into the virtual ground.

I also find it somewhat reminiscent of everyone I knew as a kid during the 1980's calling everything under the sun "Awesome!" or of Sean Hannity declaring everything the Democrats do or say "Unbelievable!". You pretty much sap these terms of all their rhetorical strength and meaning when you overuse them to the point of becoming a catchphrase. Or to quote The Princess Bride:

Vizzini: HE DIDN'T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE!

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

For now I'll overlook the linguistic irony of failing to use the term "Fail" correctly and offer some free advice: Stick with "Get bent" or "Jinkies" or "Keep on truckin" or whatever else you guys used to say back in the day Don, and leave the use of Internet slang terms to younger generations. You'll sound somewhat smarter when you write and hopefully your kids might be a little less embarrassed about going out into public with you. Can you dig it, jive turkey?

[Update: On an extremely tangential note, while unsuccessfully searching for a quality clip of the movie lines I quoted above I came across this Star Wars-ified reimagining of one of the best sword fights in movie history. Enjoy:
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I Love The Japanese

Watch this Samurai swordsman unsheathe his katana and slice a flying baseball in half with one fluid motion:


OK, it took him two tries but that's still damn impressive.

Picture Of The Day

Samurai vodka. Coolness. If I could choose one vodka to take back in time with which to shake up some martinis with John Belushi, this would be the one.

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The Tarantino Mixtape

If you're a Tarantino fan you'll appreciate the mixed eclectic method:

Kill Bill 1 & 2 In One Minute, In One Take

I don't think this really embodies Tarantino's original vision but come on, that thing is almost four hours long! This will give you the gist:

Art Of The Saber

This video had been around for a little while but I haven't posted it yet so here we are. If you can disregard the one guy's babbling to his woman as if he's voicing over a Ken Burns civil war documentary and the fact that they're both dressed like they're filming a Matrix tribute the martial arts moves are pretty sweet. I give you the Ho brothers (insert your own jokes here):

Prepare To Die

I've just found my new, favorite time-waster: GraphJam.com. The video, for all of you non-Princess Bride fans: