Silly Weekend Video

I am stealing this from batmanobviously. This video is not really that silly, instead it's absolutely awesome. I only wish the real movie would have this much effort put into it...

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW is the very hot Atom Eve from Invincible. She is a hot redhead with nice perky breasts. Also, she has a pretty sweet superpower. That is always a plus...

Failure to Launch

Yes, you are going to be forced to read a review of the movie...no, just kidding, this is a little story about how and why the comic book club at Penn State never took off. This story takes place many years ago and I may have forgotten a few details/names, but most of the details are pretty accurate.

It all begins when I check my Comic Swap Newsletter to see a note that anyone interested in forming a PSU Comic Club should email a guy named Marty. I email him, and he says that we will be meeting on Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. (maybe, no real idea on the time)

I show up not really knowing what to expect. The first meeting had like five people. Marty starts it off by introducing himself, and saying what comics he is reading. The next kid goes on to talk about he only reads indie comics. Marty decides to dig deeper, and asks if he is reading Chris Ware's stuff, Indie-Kid says "oh yeah, that stuff is really good." Which, seems pretty obvious he has no idea. So Marty pushes more, and says "well what titles are you reading?" Indie-Kid says "well, some of the stuff by Dreamwave and Devil's Due." Does anyone realize what this pretentious prick is talking about? He was reading Transformers and Voltron.

Now, when I think indie comics, those are definitely not the books that pop into my head. Do not get me wrong, I may have a few issues of Voltron, and I followed the Transformers Dreamwave run for at least one or maybe two of those series, which were okay,until I realized that I was just trying to recapture my youth or something like that.

The next kid, his name was Lew, was your standard comic book fanboy. Sweatpants, overweight, greasy hair, bad acne...you get the cliche. He says that he is not really into new comics, except for the X-titles. Which ones you might ask? ALL OF THEM. At this point, there were like 100 X-Men books, Jubilee had a book. He was reading every single one of them, and he would tell you how bad they were...however, that was definitely not the scary part.

He then proceeds to tell us that he really only likes to read early 90s superhero comics, mainly Rob Liefeld.

Another guy, who was actually normal, shows us his sketchbook of some of his art, which was pretty good. He then says that he is involved in way too many activities, so he would not really be available.

So, we leave. On the way downtown Marty and I bullshit about comics and decided to grab a beer. We make fun of everyone else, and talk about ideas for what we could do with the Comic Book Club.

We decide to try again, and the next meeting gets a few more folks. Unfortunately, we lost 90% of those people when Lew and another of his ilk decide to argue about who draws larger breasts, Frank Cho or Terry Dodson. Seriously, there was actually a cute girl at this meeting and she was looking for the emergency exit at this point.

The crappy thing about all this, if we could get proof of membership over (I think 30 people) PSU would have given us money. They give money to the Bigfoot Club, the paranormal club, even the Anime Club. Sadly though, Marty and I could not convince the comic folks that we could do something worthwhile. We thought about self-publishing a comic or something. The others just wanted to argue about who would win in a fight, Wonder Woman or Power Girl...

Is there any real point to all of this? Not really. I mean, we failed on multi-levels. If it were today, and we tried this, we could have just started a group on facebook, sent out messages to everyone with comics as an interest. Who knows what good we could have accomplished, or the comics we could have bought if PSU would have given us $1000...

I guess some good came out of it though, Marty was able to use his work study job at the library to make suggestions on them buying better trades and GNs. At the time they had like two different books, but Marty got them to buy a bunch of quality stuff. That had been one of the ideas I suggested, us getting good comics into the library and maybe even out to elementary schools (try to get readership up in younger readers)...

Silly Weekend Video

This video cracks me up. I love the Hulk line at the end "too soon Tony, too soon."

Girlfriend of the Week

I started off trying to make my GOTW someone very special to me: the goddess Šauška, but unfortunately, Google does not keep a plethora of hot pictures of my favorite war/fertility goddess. Because of this, I have decided to use Inanna and Ishtar (Šauška is pretty much the same goddess, so it is not really that big of a deal...)

Seriously though, would it have been too hard for the ancient Hurrians and Hittites to invent a camera? Bunch of savages.


Anyways, why is she GOTW? Šauška was badass. She has wings, carries a sword, and is followed by some lions. She is the goddess of sex (oh yeah, do a google image search for that phrase, see what ya get) and of war. In many of the stories, she has to go save her brother Tešub (if you have never read any of the myths, you should check them out) because he is a sissy. She usually sleeps with some monster, then cuts it's head off while it sleeps. A whore and a warrior=my kind of girl.

Life in Philipsburg

This picture was taken about five minutes ago. I live beside the Philipsburg movie theater (The Rowland), which is not always up to date when it comes to current movies. As you can see, this week: Gran Torino. It was a good movie, but come on, they could at least try to get something that is not coming out on DVD soon...

24: 6:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.

At least the season is over. This would have been great if not for the last ten hours. The President loses her family, boo hoo. Olivia going to jail. Good. The First Dude probably filing for divorce? Great. Why did we need 70% of the episode devoted to this storyline?

Tony ends up being some kind of quintuple agent. Out for revenge for Michelle. Apparently though, every season we find out someone else was behind it. Retarded...although, Tony getting shot in the forearm looked pretty painful.

I like how they left it open about Jack, maybe he will die. I doubt it, but you never know. Also, grooming Agent Walker was pretty cool. I could watch a season of her breasts taking charge and kicking ass. It would be kind of erotic watching her torture some chick...

Anyways, I understand that there is pretty much nothing the writers can do on this show, but seriously if next season they just rehash the same plot lines, with different characters, I may have to kill someone.

24: 5:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m.

Well tomorrow night is the season finale, and I finally got a chance to watch the next to last episode. I will admit the show was not that bad. The Jack vs. Tony battle still has yet to happen, but I am sure something will go down in the finale.

Unfortunately, this show really has no new ideas. I mean, Jack broke Tony out of FBI custody once already, this season! How many times do we have to sit through Kim being used as a hostage. This is why Jack should just kill her. It would simplify things. Benjamin Linus would do it, proof that Jack is nowhere near as badass as Ben...

I enjoyed the fact that Jebron (was that his name?) decided to go with the old "I have a bomb" tactic. At least that way people get out of the way, trying to discuss things with the police would not have worked out so well...

There was a nice hug from Agent Walker, I wonder if her boobs are firm?

The other story line sucks. I will not waste energy talking about it.

Curve Game

Friday night I went to the Altoona Curve game with Jason. The Curve lost, but that is not really all that in important. What is important is this video, which I took with my phone. Unfortunately you do not really get the full effect, so allow me to explain. That play house with the dog on top is a place for little kids to go and jump around inside. Whoever designed this thing must have had a sense of humor, because when it starts bouncing around, it really looks like the dog is humping the house. His tongue is hanging out and Steamer has that surprised look like "Holy shit, what the hell did I just walk in on???"

The other funny thing about the game is that we were sitting right behind home plate, maybe four rows back. A pop fly came straight over the netting and went well behind us. I did not even think to look back because I knew it had no chance of coming to us. About ten seconds later I feel something smack into my seat. The ball had bounced off something and come straight back and landed in the cup of Jason's mom. Her seat was behind me and her cup was attached to my seat.

So there are two things to take from this, 1) further proof that mascots are creepy as all hell, and probably sexual deviants, and 2) always follow the ball, no matter where it goes.

Girlfriend of the Week

Apparently, Maxim decided that Olivia Wilde is the hottest chick out there. I do not agree, but that does not mean I would boot her out of bed. She is hot, and her character is cool on House. Only real complaint about her, I wish her boobs were bigger. But that is only a quick surgery away...

She definitely has very sexy eyes. And a killer body.

So in honor of her being Maxim's hottest chick, I suppose she can be my GOTW.

Lost: Episode 516

The season finale was pretty awesome, and the cliffhanger has me excited for the final season. I will say though, if they actually reset everything, I will be very upset...anyways, with that being said, let me share some of the things I noticed. I would do a recap, but there are much better ones out there, hell even wikipedia would do a better job of recapping the episode. As soon as you finish reading the recap, come back.

Okay, you are back. Good.

-From the beginning, when the guy said that he would find a loophole to kill Jacob, I knew that guy was somehow going to turn out to be Locke.

-How come everyone had a prior connection (Locke most of all), except Juliet?

-Sawyer and Jack, the final battle. I always figured Sawyer would win, and he did not disappoint me.

-Did anyone look closely at the statue? I wonder if the statue was Set, the Egyptian god of chaos. Here is my thought, Jacob and that other guy represent (or they are) Order and Chaos. Jacob being the manifestation of chaos. Think about it, when the ship arrives, the other guy says "we know what will happen, they will come here, they will fight, they will kill each other" (this is not a direct quote). Also, in later Egyptian mythology, Set is associated with the crocodile, which the head sort of resembled.

-I enjoyed what Miles said to the group. About how the bomb going off is what causes the incident (or is the incident). I believe that Daniel was wrong, you cannot change time, but who knows what will really happen. Again, let me reiterate, I will be pissed if they start the season with the characters landing safely in L.A. I mean, the idea of the show, aside from the group being lost on an island, each character was lost in life. Through multiple struggles on the island, they have found themselves and each other. That has been the great thing about the flashbacks. To null and void that would be ridiculous.

-Who are the people carrying around Locke's body? What is their connection to Jacob? How pissed are they that he is dead? Also, Richard correctly answers the question "what lies in the shadow of the statue?" with ""Ille qui nos omnes servabit." It is Latin (obviously, the qui is a dead giveaway) and means "He who will watch over us all." I wonder if that is the exact translation, any of my old CAMS friends reading this? I did not study Latin, Sumerian and Akkadian, so a little help would be nice.

-Is Juliet dead? Exploding hydrogen bombs usually do that, but who knows at this point...although, Richard said that dead is dead.

Let me know what you thought.

The Wildlife

I have been back home now for a little over two weeks. In the two week period that I have driving back and forth to Altoona, I have seen more animals than the two years of driving from Crafton to Cranberry.

You may be thinking "well Josh, you were driving in the city and now you are out in the country." Which is kind of true, but both of my drives were on interstate, which is where I have seen most of my animals. Also, Crafton to Cranberry is not really inside the city so there are trees and whatnot.

First of all, I have seen about 100 deer on the side of I-99. Deer can piss me off though, I can never tell when they are going to bolt across the highway and embed themselves against my car.

They might be some of the dumbest creatures out there. I think it is also too early in the year for any antlers, or would they be in velvet right now?

Anyways, this time of year is the Spring Gobler season for all those hunters out there. Well not to be one to brag, but I have seen not one, but two very nice goblers since starting over there. One had about a ten inch beard, the other an eight inch beard. Yes I used to be hunter back in the day, forgive me.

I also saw a gray fox the other day run across the road. I almost ran it over, which would have been a shame since they look pretty cool.

I bet they taste pretty bad too...I read about Wildmen one time and how they had recipes for almost every animal. They sound coyote, fox, and mountain lions were the absolute worst. I am full of so much useful information today.


Last, but not least, I stopped at Bellwood the other day to get gas and maybe a Mountain Dew from Sheetz.

As I crossed the bridge going across the Little Juniata River, I noticed that trout were rising, taking flies. I flyfish, well I used to, and let me tell you, there is nothing more exhilirating than watching a fish come up out of the water and take your fly.
I wonder what it was taking? I think it is too early in the year for March Browns and Gray Foxes, but maybe it was a Blue Winged Olive. I guess I will never know.

The only interesting thing I ever saw on my previous ride to work was a spider monkey...




















All photos taken by me. And by me, I obviously mean other people.

Happy Mother's Day

Today is the day we honor my mother. Yeah that's right, MY MOM. She rocks, and you should all recognize that fact. You see, my mom knows how to have fun. She can definitely party harder than your mom. She has a great sense of humor, evident by the fact that Adam and I are completely hilarious. She is smart, she always beats me at Scrabble. Trust me when I say that my mom is better than yours.


So this goes out to my Mom, hope you have a great Mother's Day and remember that I love you. Oh by the way, I am broke, so this is your present. Just kidding, maybe.

And to everyone else, I am sure your mom's are great. And if they are not, well I will share mine.

Silly Video Weekend

Since I usually do not post anything over the weekend, I have decided to start posting a funny video over the weekend. Something for yours and pretty much my own entertainment. This week's comes from Robot Chicken. Enjoy!

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW goes out to a girl from back in Pittsburgh, who begged and pleaded to be GOTW last week, but I pretty much forgot and made it Tigra. Oops, I am sorry Nicole. Anyways, this is Nicole. She has amazing eyes, which remind me a bit of Supergirl's.

District 9 Preview

This movie looks pretty cool. I bet it has all sorts of race metaphors, those are always pretty fun.

Lost: Episode 515

There was so much happening during this episode, I do not even know where to begin. I think I will just go by certain characters and let you know what they are doing as we come to the finale.

Jack
Jack believes in Daniel's plan to use the bomb to reverse their ill fortunes. He is following Richard and Eloise through the tunnels along with Sayid (who shoots one of the Hostiles who is about to shoot Kate). Did anyone else kind of forget about Sayid? I will not lie, I did. Good thing they found him though, I bet he will be able to detonate the bomb.

Kate
Kate disagrees with Jack and wants to head back to the DHARMA people to let them know what will happen. We see her in the end captured and being brought aboard the submarine. She feels that Jack is starting to sound like Locke, also, if everything is undone she will probably end up in jail.

Sawyer
Sawyer and Juliet are interrogated by Horace and Radzinsky. They want to know where Kate is going. They beat up Sawyer, but nothing works until they start beating Juliet. He makes a deal with them, he will tell them where the Others are if the two of them can have passage on the submarine. At the end we see them together on the sub looking surprised when Kate shows up.

Hurley/Miles/Jin
They plan on heading to the beach when Dr.Chang shows up and asks them if they were telling the truth about being from the future. Hurley tries to play it cool, but fails miserably. He says he was born in the 1930s and then asks what the Korean War was. After being stumped about the current president, he gives up and says "okay, we're from the future."

Miles then convinces his father to evacuate all the women and children. He watches as his father makes his mom (and baby Miles) leave. She is angry about it, and Miles realizes why she was so angry at him, but that it was also very necessary.

Locke
Locke, Richard, and Ben go on a little errand. In fact, they go to a certain place and Locke tells Richard to help a man coming out of the jungle who has been shot. The man is Locke, and that is the point where Locke is told that he must die.

Locke then says he wants to see Jacob and he wants to take the rest of the group with them. Richard thinks that Locke may be a problem. Ben tells Locke this, and Locke informs him that he does not care about helping his people (flight 815) get back, he wants to meet Jacob and kill him.

I love how cool Locke has become. It reminds me of how he was in season one, he seemed to have answers and understand the island better than anyone.

In next weeks episode we see Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet trying to stop Jack. Obviously the bomb never goes off. You cannot change the past (I think Daniel proved that point), I wonder if the rupture of energy will thrust the group back to the present, making Eloise and Richard think they succeeded in changing the future...

Anyone have any theories?

24: 4:00 a.m.-5:00 a.m.

Could this show get any worse at this point? Only a couple of episodes left, that is all you have to remember. Where to begin?

The president's bitchy daughter orders a hit on Hodges, but then has a change of heart. Unfortunately the assassin is way too good and does it even though she did not transfer the money for him. I wonder if we will find out that Aaron actually did it? He will either be the one who did the hit, or he will figure out what she did...

I understand Agent Walker explaining to Chloe about Jack's impending death, but why is she telling the Muslim guy? And I am glad they brought him with them, it was nice to see Jack have a debate about forgiveness with him. Next week's episode will have Jack discussing medical ethics with a rabbi.

How many times has Jack screamed "We need a medic!" this season? I bet six times.

Alright, so how will this train wreck end? Well, Jack will stop the attack and Tony will escape, or we will all think he is dead (again). Before Jack dies, Kim will show up and the season will end with her offering her stem cells. I bet it ends with a silent clock...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Let me first say that I had very low expectations going into this movie. That is probably a good thing because I could not be let down. The movie was not terrible, but it was not particularly good. Sadly it made enough money that they want to do a sequel and that movie execs will decide to make more of these kinds of comic films instead of movies like Watchmen.

I will now try to explain this film's very silly plot. Logan and Victor are brothers. They fight in a bunch of wars together. Victor becomes a bit unstable and enjoys killing a bit too much. Logan does not. They join up with William Stryker and his team of mutants. Logan quits the group because they are about to murder a whole village.

He is living in the mountains with a hot woman (Kayla Silverfox) and he works as a lumberjack. Victor pays a visit and kills Kayla. Logan goes to Stryker and receives his adamantium and learns that Stryker wants to erase his memories. He escapes and begins trying to find Victor. He learns that Stryker is kidnapping mutants and taking them to the island, which Gambit escaped from. He enlists Gambit's help and he takes him to Three Mile Island.

He finds out that Kayla is still alive and that she is a mutant. Their relationship was just a ruse. Her sister (Emma Frost) is being help captive by Stryker and he used her to get to Logan. Stryker activates Weapon XI, which is Deadpool. Apparently Wade Wilson with a bunch of other mutants powers stuffed into him.

Deadpool fights with Logan on top of the cooling tower, Deadpool almost kills him, but Victor comes to lend a hand. He says that only he has the right to kill Logan. They battle with Deadpool, and Logan cuts his head off. The damage destroys some of the tower (I bet that is what really happened at Three Mile Island...)

Kayla dies. Logan is sad because she says that she really did love him. The kids escape with the help of Charles Xavier and his cool helicopter. Stryker shoots Logan in the head with an adamantium bullet, which causes Logan to lose his memories. I guess there is a scene in the ending credits of Logan in a Japanese bar, the girl asks if he is drinking to forget, and he says no, he is drinking to remember...

The Good
Hmm, what was good about the movie? Some of the fight scenes I guess. What else? The chicks in the movie were pretty hot. Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson at the beginning was pretty cool, and Liev Schreiber does a good job as Sabretooth.

The Bad
-So let me get this straight, Victor does not remember that Logan is his brother? When they square off in the first X-Men movie, how come he does not mention they are brothers?

-They had flat screen computer monitors back then? Did the one on Stryker's wall, that he was using to watch the battle through Deadpool's eyes, look a bit more modern?

-If Wolverine is the best at what he does and what he does isn't very nice, then I am guessing what he does is get beat down by everyone because that is all I really saw him doing.

-I felt like Stryker's plan should have been part of this season of 24, it was that stupid.

Comic Book Movie Grade: B-/C+

Fantasy Baseball Part One

Yes, it's back. Fantasy baseball season. I know that most of you do not care to read about my triumphs and defeats each week, so this year I have decided to just post a longer recap every few weeks (unless of course my faithful readers want it every week). This year we decided to do two different leagues, each one has some different stats as well as different rules. Oddly enough, for Offord's league I missed the draft and just pre-ranked my players. I ended up with basically the same team that I personally drafted a few days later in Ryan's league. I guess that is a good thing?

Ryan's League
In week one I got beat down by Singer, but then had a nice come back week against Ryan. In the third week I took on Offord, and barely beat him. The reason I am quickly recapping those weeks is that with all the moving/working/drinking/baseball games, I kept forgetting to set my teams in advance. Not using that as an excuse, just did not pay much attention.

This week however I made sure to keep up on it (even though I somehow missed a Halladay start, I'm a moron). I beat YouThrowLikeAGirl 9-2-1. My pitching was pretty fantastic, even without another good Halladay start. I have proposed a trade with Offord, BJ Upton for Jonathon Broxton. I need another strong closer, and hopefully he needs somebody like Upton, who is starting off a little slow, but will steal a good bit of bases, plus once he gets hot can hit for a decent average. If he wants someone else though, well he just needs to let me know.

Anyways, he is leading the league right now, but I am only seven games behind in third place.

Offord's League
This league I convinced Jason and Nick from Batman Obviously to join. I do not think they have paid much attention though. This league only has eight teams, which makes it weird when looking at the waiver wire, since our roster size is smaller. I will see players available that in the other league would make me interested, but in this league they are not really worth taking. If that makes sense.

I am in first place in this league, especially after beating up on JasonK 10-2 this week. The beauty of this league is that average is not a category, instead Offord chose to use OPS. Also, in the other league we use OBP as well as average. In both leagues, this makes Adam Dunn a very valuable player. Yes, he has a very good average at this point in the year, but we all know that will probably drop. However, he is a walk machine, so now, in this league, I get the benefits of his HRs/walks, without getting crushed by his strikeouts.

And no Ryan, I am not taking a shot at you or anything, just pointing out that I picked up Dunn very late, and in this format, he is very valuable...

PreFamily Guy

Apparently this was a cartoon Seth MacFarlane created before Family Guy. Notice a few familiar things?

The Stand: Captain Trips

I completely forgot that I picked up the hardcover of The Stand: Captain Trips, the comic adaptation of Stephen King's awesome book. If you have read the book (or want to read it, but cannot imagine reading a 33234465453467256 page book) then you should definitely check this out.

The first arc focuses on the disease and how it spread. There are plenty of cool things, like Person A infected B, who then infected C,D,E,F...and so on. Also, we get an introduction to a few of the characters: Stu, Larry, Frannie, Nick, Lloyd, and Randall Flagg. In fact, the last few pages focus on Flagg, and they are pretty sweet. We see him going through different eras as a the Walkin' Dude, always in the background, stirring up trouble.

The artwork is pretty good, in fact, some of the characters are pretty close to how I imagined them when I read the book, especially Larry (who in my opinion was the Stand's version of Eddie from the Dark Tower series...anyone else have any thoughts?)

I look forward to the next installment. I definitely recommend picking it up.

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW goes out to Tigra from the Marvel Universe. She is hot, and something super wrong with the fact that it is almost like bestiality when she sleeps with Hank Pym, which is weirder since he was actually a Skrull. What kind of porn would that be? Xenobestiality?

24: 3:00 a.m.-4:00 a.m.

I was pretty excited about Jack going after Hodges, but it was a huge let down. No torture, he just promises to fake his death and put him into witness protection. Wow, not cool. The only cool thing was Jack bluffing him about calling the Washington Post, but still not as cool as choking him with a wet towel...

The bad guys plan on launching the attack now because Tony told them it was a good idea. They want to show how the government cannot protect the people and use that to move in and take over the military (the shadow group is a bunch of private security firms like Starkwood).

Jack pretty much knows their plan because he is awesome. He needs CTU's servers to help target who would be the perfect person to use as a scapegoat. Even though Jack is about to die, he is now the most powerful person in the world. The president has given him full carte blanche.

Seriously, this episode pretty much bored the hell out of me. Listening to Chloe and Janis bicker, watching Jack fall apart. Ugh, I just want to see Jack and Tony square off in combat.