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Posted on 01.27.12 by ScottC @ 10:45 pm
 I know that aggressive merchandizing is standard operating procedure for media companies. How else are they going to maximize their monetizing streams. So we get flooded with T-shirts, action figures, plush toys and anything else you can slap some copyrighted imagery on. The problem is that marketers get a little...insane. It's almost like a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, where your licensed content must be every single thing available or else it is unclean. Think I'm exaggerating? I have a perfect example. Avengers Brand cologne. Yes, really. 
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Posted on 01.27.12 by Widge @ 5:41 am
It's Weekend Justice: the Internet's #1 audio trainwreck. It's the podcast that can go to a Dark Place at the drop of a hat. And not every listener will make it back alive. This is both warning...and promise. This podcast was engineered--some might say over-engineered--by experts to escort you from the work week in the most chaotic manner possible. Please note: this podcast is profane, definitely oversexed and definitely overwrought. It is wrong and unsafe. You have been warned.  Please note--an extra warning for this episode, in which terrible, sick jokes are made about children and taxidermy. In light of this, I would like to issue the following apology in advance: In my rush to make a joke, I incorrectly identified Boris Karloff's last film as 1968's Targets, when as you, of course, well know--it was instead 1971's The Incredible Invasion, released after his death. My apologies for any confusion or distress this slip-up may cause. Agenda:
File Under: Podcasts and Weekend Justice
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Posted on 01.26.12 by Rob Levy @ 5:28 pm
 I love movies and since I get to review them, I get to see LOTS of them. It's embarrassing since I see lots of crap and really dreadful films. I am lucky to live in a city with a good art house chain of theatres, a great film marketing company and a solid film festival that keeps me entertained for twelve days in November. Nonetheless I never really realized how many films I saw in 2011 until it came up in conversations. Since then more people have asked me for a list of my favorite films. To be honest, I hate the process of ranking things for a "best of." It is such a grueling process. Therefore, to avoid my own consternation (and also to keep me sane), I organized the ten films I loved this past year in alphabetical order. I also must admit that I have not yet seen The Help or The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and therefore cannot include them in the list. There also are many great films I left off of this list after a wrenching process of elimination. So warts and all, here they are...
File Under: Curmudgeon
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Posted on 01.24.12 by Widge @ 4:25 pm
 As we were stumbling around Atlanta, finding various and sundry establishments that served High Road Craft Ice Cream...we found one that offered this. And how can you not try "Gin and Juice Sorbet?" So we tried it...and it was okay. It had become a bit too frozen--or something--and was more like eating flavored ice than sorbet. Granted, it was tasty ice...but not what we had signed up for. One of the benefits of showing up at the High Road Compound to interview head icecreamologist Chef Keith...is you get to buy the stuff direct from the source. And we snagged some of this...because we knew it had to be better than just okay. And this is one of the flavors available via Dean & DeLuca...and they don't generally screw around. So. Let me admit something to you: I know very little about the actual alcoholic cocktail known as "gin and juice," apart from the fact that the recipe is pretty much in the name. And yes, there's a song about it. In my relatively brief time back among the drinking population, it's just never come up on the todo list. But I can tell you this: the actual drink itself cannot possibly taste as good as this sorbet. Because if it did, then the majority of the population would be drunk off their asses on it 24/7. No lie. Because what this sorbet tastes like is...well, juice.
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Posted on 01.24.12 by Widge @ 1:06 pm
 So a quick headsup here that the current Threadless clearance--tees starting at $9--ends tomorrow morning at 11am Eastern Time. And surprisingly, there's still a bunch of excellent ones left in stock. Some quick pointers for shirts we recommend follow. The cute coffee-related "I Was Here" by Dina Prasetyawan is something that we would be remiss if we didn't mention it, for obvious reasons. There's also the classic-for-a-reason/perennial "Pillow Fight" by Fiona Lee. And the relatively recent pirate meets dog "Reburied Treasure" by David Soames and Nathan W. Pyle. Don't worry if you don't get it immediately. Ensure you've looked at the back. And, admittedly, the "Adopt a Direwolf" design we have posted there by Sean A. Husbands isn't on sale...but it's just so goddamn cute, what can you do? As always, we urge you to consider impending birthdays and other occasions when it would be nice to snag something for $9. Just saying. Find the selection of sale items here. Enjoy.
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Posted on 01.23.12 by Widge @ 5:00 am
 Each week we like to lead off with something that makes your head spin around. A little disorientation, our researchers have found, helps with the ability to make it through the work week relatively intact. So The Daily What states this is a Keyboard Cat video directed by David Lynch. I'll take it one further--this is the lost demo reel for The Tom & Jerry Movie, directed by Lynch. At the end of the film, because they have been so mean to each other and so wantonly destructive of property, they are condemned to an entire of being the backing band for a bad Slim Pickens impersonator who sings for an audience of damned children. P.S. I'd like to also point out that the first video that comes up on YouTube for me after watching this is of an exorcism. YouTube...it's smarter than you think it is.
File Under: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 01.23.12 by Widge @ 4:17 am
There's a lot of stuff that comes out all the time, and the companies are want your attention and mostly...your coin. But, you know, it's your coin and you have to take care where you spend it. With these posts we try to take you through recent releases so you can make up your mind. If you find the info here to be of use, do us a favor and purchase stuff from Amazon through us. Especially if you were going to buy the stuff anyway. That gives us kickbacks, which help pay for things. Like the server. And coffee. And therapy. We thank you.
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Posted on 01.21.12 by Widge @ 1:51 am
Episode #102 for Haywire, in which our protagonist writes Gina Carano and her compatriots a pass, advises you of a better Soderbergh-helmed action movie to see instead, and postulates about actors and their fetish for getting beaten up.
File Under: Reviews and Video Podcasts and Wayhomers
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Posted on 01.20.12 by Widge @ 6:45 am
It's Weekend Justice: the Internet's #1 audio trainwreck. It's the podcast that spends an undue amount of time discussing Sherlock. But we are not Cumberbitches. Cumberbastards, maybe. Anyway. This podcast was engineered--some might say over-engineered--by experts to escort you from the work week in the most chaotic manner possible. Please note: this podcast is profane, definitely oversexed and definitely overwrought. It is wrong and unsafe. You have been warned.  Agenda:
File Under: Podcasts and Weekend Justice
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Posted on 01.19.12 by Widge @ 2:21 pm
 I first caught word of this when Wired published this as their "Most Dangerous Object in the Office" back in December. And it must have been a slow month for them, since they've had all manner of insane stuff on their desks there. But more on that in a moment. As someone for whom caffeine intoxication is a fond memory, I am always on the lookout for new and interesting ways of consuming caffeine. So yes, I requested some and here we are. The shot, no pun intended, is this: AeroShots come in individual packages that look like lip balm or lipstick, as advertised. You pull one out, pop it open, stick one end of it in your mouth and "puff in"/inhale the contents. You then get an energy boost that "dissolves in the mouth and is absorbed instantly through the digestive tract, not the lungs." When we're trying to review an "energy product," there are a number of arenas in which they can win: taste, boost, price and, if all else fails, novelty. Let's try to tackle them one by one.
File Under: Reviews
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