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05.07.08 by Widge @ 10:13 pm  I'm posting this quickly so if you find this you can order it before they run the hell out. It's usually $100, they're selling it for $40. If you want this for a gift for anybody this year, best get it now. Click here to buy it from Amazon. Update: Here's the link to their DVD/TV blowout sale. Some damn good deals in here. Stand by. Categorized as: Headsup
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05.07.08 by Widge @ 3:47 pm  Well, it's no secret that we at Needcoffee love zombies. As a subgenre, I mean. We don't love-love zombies, unless you mean tough love. With shotguns. And we know that we're currently riding a wave of zombie awareness. I mean, whenever George Romero puts out two Dead movies in the same freaking decade, you know times are good for the undead. But it's seldom we run across something so odd in regard to zombies that it gives us pause. Such is the case with Strongarm Labs. I ran into them at New York Comic-Con where they were touting their twisted wares. They have created The Tall and the Dead, where the dead rise up and then keep rising up. Until they're freaking huge. And you thought rage zombies were a pain in the ass. Sweet Jebus. They also have a great book called If You Have to Ask..., where extremely obvious questions and answers come together. Either yes or no should always be the answer for these questions. And if you know somebody who needs a book to cover them, then you better buy this one and give it to them, because they're obviously not bright enough to buy it for themselves. Check out more of their madness, buy their stuff and give them love at their website. Categorized as: Headsup
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05.05.08 by Widge @ 11:54 pm An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help.
The classic Brit comedy One Foot in the Grave hits with two more series from BBC Home Video. Richard Wilson plays Victor Meldrew, a pensioner who has got so much bad luck in his life that Murphy just lets Victor call him "Mur." Annette Crosbie plays his long-suffering wife and Angus Deayton, formerly of Have I Got News For You? is in the cast as well. Six issues come on each two-disc set and there's decent features for a Region 1 BBC release: the third season comes with the 1991 Christmas Special, "The Man in the Long Black Coat," and the fourth season comes with the 1993 Christmas Special, "One Foot in the Algarve." Each set also comes with a commentary on one episode from creator David Renwick and actor Wilson. (Click here to buy Series 3 and click here to buy Series 4, both from Amazon.) Categorized as: Headsup
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05.05.08 by Widge @ 4:47 am A great vid of James Randi on doing, among other things, on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from 1987. Direct link for the feedreaders. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.30.08 by Widge @ 5:52 am  Gary Snyder, one of my favorite poets, won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. What does this mean? Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the award is one of the most prestigious given to American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the nation's largest literary awards. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee, made the announcement today. The prize will be presented at an evening ceremony at the Arts Club of Chicago on Thursday, May 29.
Yeah. I don't know about Prof. Snyder...maybe he's got a lucrative career on the side that I'm unaware of. But $100K to a poet? A poet? Wow. That's something to any writer, but especially to a poet, when it's hard to get people these days to read, much less read poetry. Well done. If you don't know his work, I would recommend No Nature for a nice primer. Also, if you can lay hands upon the performance of Turtle Island he did with Paul Winter, grab it. It's criminal that it's out of print. And to my knowledge never hit CD. One of my favorite poems reprinted after the jump. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.28.08 by Widge @ 1:55 pm Perhaps one of the coolest terrestrial things NASA has done in a while (since non-terrestrial things like escaping the freaking gravity well never lose the ability to be cool) is to set up the AresTV ID on YouTube. They're posting their quarterly updates on the Ares Project's progress. For those not already geeking, the Ares is the replacement for the U.S. space shuttle. First test flight is a year from now. Full-on flight operations scheduled for 2015. In this most recent episode, the seventh, you can see the parachute testing of their reefing (opening) method, otherwise known as Reefing Madness. Also: they do calibration and testing of...The Nozzle. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.28.08 by Widge @ 5:06 am Dave Thomas of SCTV glory sent to Quick Stop Entertainment a trailer for the upcoming Bob & Doug McKenzie animated series which hits next year. This was shown at New York Comic-Con in-between scheduling clusterfucks. I just want the return of Brewmeister Smith. Just for one episode. Please? Categorized as: Headsup
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04.27.08 by Widge @ 11:52 pm An ongoing attempt to make sense of the onslaught of new swag that people want you to buy. Should you? I'll try and help.
The cool thing about Comedy Central putting out scads of comedy albums is that even a shut-in like myself who never goes to comedy clubs and doesn't watch television can suddenly find himself confronted with new comedy. Such is the case with Dov Davidoff (and his disc here, The Point Is...) who I had never heard of before but now won't forget because A) he has a really cool name and 2) the dude is actually quite funny. He reminds a bit of Bobcat Goldthwait in that his material comes from all over the place and his delivery is deceptively manic which hides how thoughtful (and sometimes hilariously wrong) it is. Fans will want to grab this, people who aren't fans will want to give it a try. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.) Okay, here's the title of this audiobook. Check this out. Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars. That title of this book by John Huddy is the best goddamn title you will hear this week. Is there anything about that which doesn't draw you in? It's summons up an image of Tom Clancy rewriting Ocean's Eleven and getting Michael Bay to direct the damn thing. Blackstone Audio has it unabridged read by Stefan Rudnicki. And get this: it's not even like Ocean's in that they only had an hour or so to get in and get out. This assault on Vegas took place over sixteen freaking months. In-sane. The book clocks in at thirteen and a half hours across eleven discs. (Click here to buy the audiobook; click here to buy the book, both from Amazon.) Categorized as: Headsup
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04.26.08 by ScottC @ 9:52 pm  You have to attend the Industrial Radical Party fund raiser tonight but you'd been in the workshop all day. You reek of hydraulic fluid and solder from constructing the riot automata in time for the Royal Ascot horse race. All those toffs in one place are begging for a bit of the old ultraviolence. And that is nothing to compare to Victor's odor with his experiments with electrical fluid and… body parts. What is a young steampunk to do to cover those malodorous vapors? The Phoenix Steamworks is the answer. The newest division of the venerable Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, their perfumers create fragrances that evoke an Age of Steam where analytical engines hum in calculation, metal automata mimic God's creations, and mad scientists run headlong to new and dangerous knowledge. Whether you want the opaque haziness of Ether or the dark heaviness of Smokestack, you are sure to get appreciative smiles when you reach for that glass of absinthe. Categorized as: Headsup
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04.26.08 by Widge @ 4:10 am  Darren Di Lieto has gotten his work in print...through no fault of his own...and in precisely the wrong way. Luc Latulippe explains on his blog: "Turns out someone scraped the contents of his website and published it into a 350-page book being sold online for $100." Suck factor is definitely high, as the resellers refuse to pull the book and the thing has a fake ISBN and the publisher appears to be fake and the distributor is incommunicado. So they've taken the word to the blogosphere. We found it at the Lady Porphyre's place, who found it via Uncle Warren. Now that you know, pass it on. And, you know, don't buy the book. Categorized as: Headsup
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