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Needcoffee labs, hunting down every last scrap of evidence to our theory that every day you smart people don't breed the world is going to hell in a handbasket have unearthed this little nugget from the Family Feud, our own personal Inquisition for such matters: Direct link for the feedreaders. Remember, this is the Family Feud so these people undoubtedly reproduced--and did so enough that they could get five of them together on a game show...so, you know, good luck evolution, good luck. Anyway, one of the things you can do to make your future spawn smarter and way cooler is to give them awesome books to read. And you remember books right? They're those things you put on your Kindle when you're not using the Wikipedia access. And they've even got these nifty ones that don't require a download and work with NO POWER. EVER. Here are a few of the more awesome ones from your childhood, and some nifty videos you can use to entice the younguns. Categorized as: Columns
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Posted on 11.07.09 by Widge @ 6:48 am
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Written by: Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick My Advice: Matinee So, you know, zombie apocalypse. Not just zombie apocalypse, though--fast zombie apocalypse. The world, as you might imagine, goes to hell in a handicart. Shuffling amongst the ashes is our protagonist, known only as "Columbus" (Eisenberg). At first glance, he seems like an unlikely survivor. Ken Foree's Peter or Tom Savini's Blades he's definitely not. But he does have a ever-growing series of rules (shades of Max Brooks) that he adheres to. Although sometimes he bends them, like when throws in with "Tallahassee" (Harrelson), a borderline sociopath with a temper and a serious world-shattering hankering for Twinkies. This is the story of how anybody manages to survive in what Columbus refers to as "Zombieland." In a world where Shaun of the Dead has already come and gone--or rather, come and lingered, since it's that damn good--at first glance, the idea of another zombie comedy might be greeted with apprehension. And well, this one was. But Shaun, the British entry into this small sub-sub-genre was a well-written blend of comedy and pathos that was also a love letter to George Romero, Zombieland is, in essence, Shaun's clumsy, goofy but fun-as-hell American cousin. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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Posted on 11.06.09 by Widge @ 6:19 pm
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  Okay, so as you may know, we took it upon ourselves to host a Graveyard Book Dessert Challenge. You can read about the whole spiel here, but the gist is that The Neil's book, The Graveyard Book, spent an entire year on the New York Times children's bestseller list. And as a result of the book doing so well, a lot of dessert was being thrown around. Far be it from us to steer clear of dessert, so we challenged you, our readers, to come up with desserts based on The Graveyard Book. Our friends at Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab sent over an entire array of their Graveyard Book-themed scents for the grand prize winner--and we said we would pony up a CBLDF membership for the winner as well. There is trouble that comes from having these challenges--there must be winners and--let's not say losers, let's say people who just win slightly less than others. And in reality, nobody lost, because everybody was provided an excuse to make a dessert and then, of course, eat said dessert. So you're all winners not just in our book, but in the sense that we're all getting larger together. However, we promised winners. And we got it down to three finalists, and then we decided that we had to give the three finalists something, so we ponied up more. Why? Because we love you all. And we are now very hungry. Let's start with the second runner-up: Categorized as: Food
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Posted on 11.06.09 by Widge @ 3:23 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  And we're back. Please note: this podcast, if you haven't figured it out, is profane and not safe for consumption by children or animals. Or sentient creatures of any sort. You can't say we didn't warn you. Agenda:
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Posted on 11.06.09 by Widge @ 12:24 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.   Let me admit something to you: I'm not what you would call a full-on Star Wars fan. Oh sure, I enjoyed the hell out of the first trilogy, warts and all. And like most sane people among you, I sobbed--like a little girl whose favorite hamster has just been ignited by a spray of flaming WD-40--when I realized what the prequel trilogy had devolved the series into. But I never really got into the various other bits of media--you know, like the books or comics. And I'm sure there's a fandom term amongst Star Wars geeks for basic fans like myself. So it's not because I dig Empire Strikes Back the most (like most sane people) that I find myself terribly excited about the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag from ThinkGeek. Hell, as nifty as I think they are, I'm not even geeked at the prospect of owning one. Instead, I'm thrilled because I like the notion of living in a world where something as sick as a sleeping bag based on a scene in which a character cut open and slept inside the carcass of an animal--a sleeping bag originally conceived as a joke, mind you--can become real and be sold. We have to take joy in the little things. You can pre-order your own twisted sleeping bag here. They appear to be in stock starting 11/29. Categorized as: Gear
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