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DoJ's avatar of Mario bonking the princess would be a lot less creepy if the princess was actually awake.

It's Thanksgiving evening and everyone's at home stuffing themselves. I'm here all alone. I think I'm gonna walk around naked!

My family works late on Christmas Eve, gets up happy late the next day, eats a traditional Guyanese stew called Pepperpot while being super nice to each other and then spends the rest of the day sleeping. Also, the TV stations here show all four of the Home alone movies on a loop or something, cuz they're on all fucking day, every fucking channel.

It's always so gratifying to see someone lose their preacher virginity. (I have to warn you that the blood abd plain only increase after the first time)

Checked out your life of reilly link. Made for fun reading. I especially liked the way the case was made that for the initial permanent switch to Ben to work Ben would have had to have become Parker again. Blond Ben Reilly as THE spiderman was too much. Of course, that said, the easiest solution would simply be to put the kind of blurb that marvel puts at the beginning of their books anyways. You know: "Bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker discovers he has amazing powers... uncle ben... power and responsibility... Spiderman!" They could simply have added something about , "Having lost 5 years of his life... returns as Ben Reilly to once again be Spiderman!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUT THE MOST DISTURBING THING in the article wasn't about the clones. It was the revelation by DeFalco that the 2099 line of books was cancelled DESPITE good sales, because some shithead in Marvel marketing decided that Spiderman 2099 was siphoning sales from Amazing Spiderman. WTF? Can we get 2099 relaunched?

So... The way Spidey first met and fought the clone in Amazing #149 and the clone saga didn't pick up till much later, they're not doing that? They're jumping right into the Ben Reilly thing? Kinda hard to see how when there's no clone history. But, OK. I really must read some of the 'Ultimate' books some time...

So the original clone episode where Peter dumps the body into the chimneys been done in Ultimate?

Don't forget Dexter's sidekick, Peeping Perverted Patrick, the child molestor who helps catch sexual criminals.

OK, I don't care about the no reply rule for Blargh. Ranking the fucking Edge higher than Brian May, Knopfler and Bo Diddley? Ranking Carlos SANTANA below Kirk Hammet? Burn your Rollng Stone, man, it's not good for anything besides feeding your Xmas fire now.

pay no attention to this attachment... Go discuss gay love vs straight love over in Fight Club.

One of my longtime crushes... Yevgeny Kafelnikov, 2 time Grand Slam champion and former World number one.

Sugar is overrated. Other things that are overrated include: sleep, having money in your wallet, clean bedsheets, warm running water and a wide selection in radio stations.

Rabbits turn U on, huh?

Everytime I go to a library I end up thinking I should spend more time there. One of the best jobs I've ever come across was when Nick worked the Audio Visual dept at FIU library. He just read and watched movies all night and occasionally had to interact with a student needing something. That's my kinda work ethic.

Mandarin's magic. Iron man is tech. Pitting the two together could be great or totally silly, depending on how it's done. For a first movie, though, I recommend leaving out the magic.

Send in the clowns!

I have an instinctive dislike for time loops. I find them illogical and annoying. 12 Monkeys borders on being a time loop. What's funny is that they don't give a good reason in the ovie as to how it is that time cannot be changed. I mentioned in an earlier post, how the authority in the future SENT a gun to Bruce Willis, EXPECTING him to change events. His failure to change the past doesn't come from any physical constraint, but rather the fact that he had failed before in the time loop. ------------------------------ Was reading a bit in the IMDB forums about Time Bandits. Lots of people had the same reaction I did to the ending. "WTF?" Gilliam addressed it in an interview and said that he killed the parents cuz the movie was about growing up and the kid had moved past the point of needing parents. (I guess having him move out and rent his own place with a couple of scantily clad female room-mates was too much of a demand) In any case, ready to move past his parents is one thing, being totally isolated from the world (no house, no other adults. The fireman drives off.) is very different.

He makes movies that are upbeat and optimistic for 90% and then pulls the rug out from under you with an ending where fate/omnipotent forces beyond your control/Evil stomps all over your piddling ambitions to self-determination and happiness? He must have had a bleak childhood or something.

Well, I explained about the 12 Monkeys thing. As for Time Bandits, I think I'm justified too. How can you defend a Deus Ex Machina ending? It never works. It always fizzles. Also, it's not the bleakness that got to me, per se. It's the fact that the whole movie is comedic with a neurotic Napoleon and An absolutley HILARIOUS Robin Hood etc. Even God is played for laughs. The ending just didn't seem to fit the spirit of the movie. I admit it was funny when the kid yells, "don't touch it, it's Evil" and his parents naturally touch the Evil. But then the last scene is a just an orphaned kid standing alone in front of his burned-out home and incinerated parents while Sean Connery drives off and leave him all alone. Hardly comedic.

OK, just saw Time Bandits. Very good in the 80's Goonies kinda way. Horrible effects of course. And childish in it's portrayal of the history. There was some good stuff with Michael palin and John Cleese and Sean Connery, though. he ending [spoilers!!!!] was a weak point for me, since it was a deus ex machina. It did lead in to some interesting questions for god like, why do we have evil? but that was kinda glazed over. The very final ending was weird too. I mean it was wickedly funny how his parents were arguing over whther they should have saved the toaster or the blender from the fire and completely ignored saving him. But when they just died and that was it... seemed more like the ending for a horror movie, really. ======================================== Anyways, there's a rumour that the director of Time Bandits wants to remake it. It could be wicked good if they update the special effects, but I hope they don't loose the British feel of the comedy.

If it's in Black & White, it's not porn, it's ART:

That from an album cover?

Two men for the price of one: It's twins, y'all! Tito and Santi Ponce. I have no idea who they are or what they do, but ain't they just adorable?

Just to clarify things to the noobs... This was never meant to be a serious topic. Chief being the Iron Man fan that he is, this was just a bit of Iron Man bashing on my part.

Is 'SKEETER' short for 'mosquito', I wonder...