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Month: July 2014

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Photography, Photoshoot

Sunrise Over the Atlantic

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Outer Banks Sunrise #8 So at 5:45 this morning, Steph tapped me on the shoulder. Steph: I can’t sleep. I’m going to go watch the sunrise. Wanna come? Mav: Not really. Steph: Well, I’m going. But now I was awake, so I got dressed and grabbed my camera and followed her…

Comics, Gender & Sex, Movies

TMNT and Marketing for Dummies

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So this morning, Paramount tweeted out their new Ninja Turtle movie poster and then after they got some flack, immediately pulled down the tweet and recalled the poster. Ok, three guesses… without reading anything else first (from this blog or elsewhere on the internets), what is wrong with this movie poster? (You can click on…

Pop culture

George R. R. Martin Won’t Kill Your Kid…

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What kind of a heartless bastard refuses to kill a 13 year old kid? Uh…  wait…. From Uproxx.com: http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/07/george-r-r-martin-responds-to-a-heartfelt-letter-from-13-year-old-fan-asking-to-die-a-grisly-death/ Alas, I cannot promise you a grisly death in THE WIND OF WINTER. Those spots have already been filled by some very generous donors, and there’s a limit to how many people even I can kill. However,…

TV

Lucy Lawless to be on Agents of SHIELD

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Huh… so apparently, Lucy Lawless has signed on for next season’s Agents of SHIELD. Because clearly, like George Takei, Mark Hammill and Summer Glau before her, she has realized that there is no point whatsoever to taking any role that can’t raise her autograph fee at comicons is useless and to be avoided at all costs. And…

Religion

Klingons are going to hell… uh….

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You know, if you want to be a biblical literalist, sure fine… go on. I mean, not for me, but yeah. But this just takes a special kind of crazy. So creationist Ken Ham recently penned a column where he explains that space exploration is useless, not because there is obviously not life on other…

Website Reviews

Which Bathroom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfEdCbbQAgM Ok, I think I’ve found my new calling in life. I want to host a Candid Camera style television prank show… because this may be the best thing ever. (From Just For Laugs: Gags, a Canadian prank show)

Movies

Fantasy Casting Black Superhero Movies

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So during my rant the other day on why I think Falcon SHOULDN’T become Captain America, I had a sidebar tangent about Truth: Red, White & Black, a brilliant graphic novel wherein Captain America finds out that in order to refine the Super Soldier Serum, the US Military experimented on 300 expendable black soldiers because, you…