For reference:
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Enjoy.
For reference:
]]>It was fun to write. More fun though, is that Bob Gale, writer/producer of the series, more than likely read the article, as evidenced here:
Dear Slate: Bob Gale Is Locked in Our Basement!
That's very exciting.
]]>Google has announced that they are deprecating their translation api:
Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011.
What that means is that come December, Translation Party will be no more because that translation api was doing all the work behind the scenes translating things back and forth. Are they talking about us when they mention extensive abuse? Maybe. But whatever, I'm mad now.
]]>The five stages of Star Wars fandom grief
I just now came up with a better title: How I learned to stop worrying and not care about Star Wars.
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Don't ask me why I was looking at Sonic the Hedgehog comics on amazon, but check this out. If you look at the page for Sonic The Hedgehog Select Volume 1 and scroll down a bit, you'll see this:
That's weird. There are a couple other Sonic things on amazon that recommend Beck, Palin, and Rove too.
Sadly, I could find no evidence that people who like Mario comics like MSNBC.
]]>Download Yale Precision Marching Band - Beatdown Stomp
Here's the original, for reference:
(We had changed our name to The El Conquistadors by then, because we were ashamed of being a ska band.)
It's a shockingly faithful cover, they even did my trumpet solo. Also, I want to take credit for the line near the end of the song, "You ain't so smooth with my syringe in your urethra." That was all me.
]]>Can you guess what the mysterious fifth thing is? I'll give you a moment.
You ready? It's herself. The fifth item in that list of things that sounds like a bunch of stupid, random things you have to find in a video game to get to the next level is actually herself. That was the first thing I guessed when I first saw the trailer and I was right. That movie is bad.
]]>What could I do but leave it on repeat all day?
]]>Will, why did you do this, you might ask. I already told you, I forgot. It may have started with me being annoyed that when I would link here on facebook, some people would comment on facebook, and some people would comment here. (Or, more likely, no one would comment at all.) This doesn't actually fix this since comments on something I post on facebook won't show up here in the new way either. It would help with comment spam, except I had already squashed it entirely by making people type "yeah" into a box before they commented.
There is an option to blacklist certain keywords and to automatically correct common grammar mistakes, but I've turned both of them off, because what's the point of commenting on the internet if you can't swear and use bad grammar?
A lot of real blogs have started using facebook comments with the idea that it would increase civility because people need to use their real name. Those people clearly don't know how to create a fake facebook profile. It isn't hard.
So, in short, I handed over control of my blog to a guy whose only motivation is impressing his ex-girlfriend from college. For absolutely no reason.
PS: I also put a like button on everything cause fuck it.
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Well, to be honest, it was slightly different, but the thing I cared about was the tagline:
CANDY, CHICKS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL
Here are my thoughts on that tagline:
1) The order is wrong. It's clearly a reference to the song Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and its appropriation by pop culture to mean cool things done by rock musicians. They just changed the first two things. But if you were going to properly match up the two changed things, I think that candy would match up with drugs, and chicks would match up with sex. That would make it CHICKS, CANDY, AND ROCK 'N' ROLL.
1a) Their tagline is in trochees. Mine is not. I realize that. It's entirely possible they chose theirs for its poetic meter and not to avoid some controversy equating sex with chicks or some other completely arbitrary reason. We'll never know.
2) What's with the all caps? The makers of the poster had already demonstrated their ability to turn off caps lock when talking about who the creators are.
3) I would have liked a comma after CHICKS. I know either is acceptable. It's just my personal preference.
4) Why is one and "AND" and the other and "'N'"?
This movie looks bad. Poke your eyes out with your soda straw bad. I don't know what happens in it. Frankly, I don't want to know. But it looks bad. You know what, I'm going to watch the trailer. Hold on. Feel free to watch it yourself:
Okay, I watched the trailer. It confirmed my suspicions that Hop is, in fact, a bad movie. Here are my thoughts on the trailer:
1) The cast
1a) What's with Russell Brand? Is he only allowed to play rock-related British people?
1b) I'm not mad at James Marsden, but I only know who he is because he was Cyclops in the X-Men movies, and the only reason they cast him as Cyclops in those movies is because he's a kind of unappealing actor, and they wanted to make Wolverine look cooler.
2) E.B. (I had assumed the character's name was Hop, but apparently I was wrong) doesn't know what a car is, but he knows what insurance companies are and the fact that one would leave them out of an incident involving cars.
3) Where did he get a carrot that size? Bugs Bunny, for whatever reason, was a human sized bunny. E.B. is not, and baby carrots don't look like that.
4) You can't play Rock Band drums on more than easy without being able to reach the bass pedal.
5) What are those chicks even doing? I guess that was the best scene with the chicks they could find, and they had to put them in so they could say the tagline.
6) That lady from Big Bang Theory is borderline psychotic the way she freaks out when she sees a stuffed animal on a couch and proceeds to hug and caress it and talk about how fun it is hugging and caressing it.
In closing, let me say that I will never see Hop. Okay, I probably will. I just watched Big Momma's House 3, I'll see anything. But Big Mommas a better tagline:
Momma's got back-up.
I have no qualms with that. All right, fine, I do. I wouldn't have used the hyphen.
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