Not-politics – Page 1207

Some Friday Night links.

Constant Reader Matt has reviewed the new Star Trek movie on his new blog Hawk’s plateau.Personally, I liked the Cloverfield shaky-cam, but tastes differ.
GayPatriotWest has likewise reviewed the Star Trek movie.
Josh Trevino went a little… expansive on Twitter about how he felt about the Star Trek movie. But he never said whether it was better than Wrath of Khan.
And Neptunus Lex commemorates today as being the anniversary of the first airplane ordered for naval aviation. Just to throw that curve ball in there.
Also, Age of Sail is taking suggestions. Well, suggestions involving Napoleonic-era naval stuff, which I know is not exactly a completely alien subject for a lot of people reading this blog.

Moe Lane

PS: [Nah, I won’t mention it after all. It should be its own post, anyway.]

PPS: You know that you want this.

I dunno. Is it time to change the background image?

This one has a certain appeal to it:

And I have this Albrecht Durer print up on my living room wall:

…but it’s probably too busy.

Anybody have an opinion?

Moe Lane

My Little Pony… the movie.

You’d watch this.

Admit it.

My Little Pony.

Personally, I think that Allahpundit’s being too disapproving of this sort of thing. Hollywood makes movies like what this one is satirizing because people want to see them. A lot. And while they may pay for movies that Hollywood wants to make and nobody wants to watch, they also pay for movies that not enough people want to watch. I mean, I liked Bottle Shock; but no way was that movie coming out if Hollywood couldn’t pay the bills.

Just saying.

Here, have a zombie-themed MMORPG.

It’s called Dead Frontier, it’s in beta right now, and I have just ran away from it like it was an Infected coming after me. I know Computer Games That Will Eat My Time (and, possibly, my brain) when I see them.

More details on this game here.

I gotta go write some sonnets.

Here. Watch some Cheap Trick while I do that.

Surrender, Cheap Trick

No, I don’t plan to write all of them in the next hour.

Revisiting the New ‘Stuff Just Blows Up’ Star Trek.

Dan Collins and David Thompson have more about that eye-rolling bad review of Star Trek that I… well, rolled my eyes over. David went on to mention “In the Pale Moonlight” of Star Trek: DS9; the clip that he’s thinking of is good enough that I’m reproducing it below. It’s no accident that this is one of the most memorable events from the series. Or that it’s also one of the most contrary-to-stereotypical ones, either.

Would that there had been more of them.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Today is a very important day.

Specifically, a very important anniversary.

According to our best estimates, The Transformers #1 hit newsstands (back when they had newsstands!) on May 8, 1984. Exactly 25 years ago today. The cartoon pilot, “More than Meets the Eye, Part 1,” wasn’t due until September 17. There is a commercial which may predate the release of the first comic book on May 8, since it’s an advertisement for the “coming soon” comic book, but we don’t know of any concrete airdate. The toys were reportedly released some time during the summer. For all intents and purposes, May 8 is Transformers‘ birthday.

Autobot

The Transformers – The Movie

Yes, I am a heartless bastard.

Moe Lane

Let’s end the night nicely.

Plenty of time for that boot to the head that I had planned for the morning. Meanwhile, have some wisdom of crowds:

Via Blueshelled, who you should be reading.

I’ve been meaning to compare Cash/Phoenix for a while now.

It’s… interesting.

Get Rhythm, Johnny Cash

Get Rhythm, Joaquin Phoenix

I mean, at the time I watched Walk the Line I totally believed Phoenix sounded precisely like Cash… but that isn’t really true, is it? Merely just close enough to let me watch the film.

That’s it. Sometimes the posts are more or less just for me.

Moe Lane

@MEATCARDS Business cards made out of beef jerky.

Via Jonah Goldberg, business cards.

Business cards made out of MEAT.

MEAT CARDS do not fit in a Rolodex, because their deliciousness CANNOT BE CONTAINED in a Rolodex.

They use lasers to make this.

Moe Lane