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Kool-Aid Community Service

by Joey deVilla on October 11, 2009

Kool-Aid Man laying bricks in a hole in a wall

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Disney Buys Marvel

by Joey deVilla on August 31, 2009

Spider-Man, Wolverine and the cast of "High School Musical"

My spider-sense is tingling, and not in a good way: Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment (yup, that Marvel, as in Spider-Man, the X-Men and so on) for $4 billion in stock, acquiring the rights to all their characters. Soon we’ll see the cast of High School Musical as the newest young mutants to join Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and a Marvel Team-Up featuring Spider-Man and the Jonas Brothers.

I feel like this:

Peter Parker in an alley, walking away from the Spider-Man costume he just dumped in the trash

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

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Collector’s Plates

by Joey deVilla on June 28, 2009

Seen in the window at a shop in Bloor West Village and coming soon to your grandmother’s (or a die-hard Star Trek or M*A*S*H fan’s) house:

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These Guys Know Their Audience

by Joey deVilla on May 21, 2009

Here’s a photo of the current selection of movies at the cinema near “Hah-vahd Square”. I think I’d enjoy all three films as a movie marathon:

Loews Harvard Square marquee showing the movies "Angels and Demons", "Star Trek" and "Rocky Horror"

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A Game of “Guess Who?” with Samuel L. Jackson

by Joey deVilla on May 11, 2009

It would probably go something like this:

Samuel L. Jackson on the other side of a "Guess Who?" game: "Does he look like a bitch?"

Yes, you’ll need to have seen the Milton-Bradley boardgame “Guess Who?” and this scene from the Quentin Tarantino flick Pulp Fiction to be in on the joke:

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Burger Klingons!

May 4, 2009

If you thought that the “Burger King” character, with his glazed mask, wasn’t creepy enough…

…you haven’t seen the Burger Klingons. Qa’pla!

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The Definitive Collection Of Awesomely Bad Wolverine Costumes

May 2, 2009

Dork Shelf, a blog devoted to Toronto and nerd culture points to Nextround.net’s collection of photos of guys in so-bad-they’re-good Wolverine costumes. My favourite one is Jewish Wolverine, complete with adamantium menorah claws.
If you’re looking for costumed adventurers who really are “from the Tribe” (such as Kitty Pryde, mentioned recently in this blog [...]

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The Temptation to Loaf

March 26, 2009

This article originally appeared in Global Nerdy.
There’s a small TV set in my home office that I sometime turn on – usually to one of the cable news channels — as “background noise”, which I sometimes find helpful when I’m trying to get work done.
Today, I’m on the road in London, Ontario with Microsoft’s EnergizeIT [...]

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Queen’s Opening Acts

March 26, 2009

For no reasons other than I love the band and my stumbling across this list, here are the names of the bands who’ve opened for Queen:

After The Fire
Airrace
Al Stewart
The Alarm
Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
Ambach Circus
Andy Fairweather-Low
Angel Child (Änglabarn)
April Wine
Argent
The B-52s
The Bangles
Belouis [...]

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An Ad for Dharma Initiative Computers

March 25, 2009

This article originally appeared in Global Nerdy.
This ad won’t make any sense if you’re not a follower of the TV series Lost. However, if you are, you’ll find it amusing…
Click the ad to see the original on its Flickr page.

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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…

March 24, 2009

…when the Exxon Valdez hit the Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, spilling about 40 million litres of crude oil.
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Unlike many other oil spills, this one worked its way into popular culture:

The belief at the time was that the Exxon Valdez’ ship’s [...]

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The Battlestar Galactica “Frakmap”

March 19, 2009

This article originally appeared in Global Nerdy.
One of the best sci-fi series on television, the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, comes to an end this Friday night at 9 p.m. on Space here in Canada and the Sci-Fi channel in the States. With only one episode left, it would seem an appropriate time to point you to [...]

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Why He Became Darth Vader

March 18, 2009

This article originally appeared in Global Nerdy.
Photo courtesy of Matt Gunn.

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“Everything is Amazing Right Now, and Nobody’s Happy”

February 25, 2009

This article originally appeared on Global Nerdy.
Over at Kevin Kelly’s blog, The Technium, there’s a video of an amusing interview on Conan O’Brien where comedian Louis CK talks about how we take today’s technology and the way it improves our lives for granted. Kelly describes it as "a cartoon version of a more serious argument [...]

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Mr. Miyagi to Obama: “Big Ups, Playa!”

January 9, 2009

For some reason, this photo-comic in which “Mr. Miyagi” (played by Pat Morita in the Karate Kid movies) gives mad props to Barack Obama amuses me to no end. I decided to enhance it by adding a caption to the bottom":
Found thanks to Giles Bowkett.

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