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09.08.06 by Widge @ 11:04 am  Remember when comic book annuals were a culmination of the year's plots and characters? When they used to be a big deal? Before they got turned into an attempt to do multi-part storylines that sucked? Well, that's the gist behind Widge Goes Off Giant-Sized Annual #1, in which you get a ringside seat at a Needcoffee geek summit. Frightening. Anyway...in this super-sized episode: Leigh and Dindrane forge an unholy alliance that threatens to rock the Needcoffee crew to their very core! ScottC's guilty pleasure movie choice gains him unparalleled amounts of ridicule! And this is Scott we're talking about here! And I just sit back and listen to them do my podcast for me! Moohoohahaha! Categorized as: Rants
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08.28.06 by Widge @ 6:43 am  We've reached Episode 10 of Widge Goes Off, the rambling stream of consciousness podcast disguised as entertainment news and discussion. You can find the latest one here at Quick Stop Entertainment. That is an image of a croissant. For no reason whatsoever except that I can. I have gone mad with power, I tell you. Mad. Grrr. Categorized as: Rants
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08.22.06 by Widge @ 2:53 am  The BBC reports that Boomerang is editing Tom and Jerry cartoons where animals are seen smoking. Think about that for a moment: anthropomorphic animals who beat the living shit out of each other for laughs occasionally smoke--and people are worried that kids will be so detached from reality that the smoking will warp their minds. We all grew up watching these unedited cartoons--when was the last time somebody you knew confided that they started smoking because of a cat and a mouse? That's right, we all started smoking right after we ordered a green Bat-suit from the Acme Catalog and then drew a tunnel on the wall so that Accelleratii Incredibus could run into it. Well, at least the huge numbers of people who bitched are happy now. Or probably not, since I can't imagine people like that ever being happy with their station in life.
Wait...a viewer? A viewer? A single viewer? Vintage, classic animation is being fucked with because one viewer is afraid that Tom and Jerry have more influence over their kids than they do? Wait, we don't even know if this single, unnamed viewer has kids, do we? Un-fucking-believable. Categorized as: Rants and TV
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08.21.06 by Widge @ 7:22 pm  Amazing...your prayers--or whatever--were answered. Here I was bitching about Snakes on a Plane not getting the #1 spot, but now that the actuals are out, Snakes has won by a forked tongue. So take this WGO as a cautionary tale--and don't put me through this shit again. BTW, for you iTunes folks, you can grab the "official, unofficial" feed here. Yes, I finally registered it my own damn self. But if you've already subscribed manually, it's the same difference. Categorized as: Rants
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08.14.06 by Widge @ 2:31 am  Yes, we're back. You people with the feeds should hopefully get both this one and last week's because something got hosed. If not, go to Quick Stop and download it. This time around, we talk box office, Superman 6, the RIAA and how they suck even more than I previously knew, and more. For info on how to manually subscribe via iTunes, check out the first WGO post here. Huzzah and such. Categorized as: Rants
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07.31.06 by Widge @ 4:54 am  Another episode of Widge Goes Off is here to taunt you and make you feel better about yourself. I mean, you thought you had trivial shit to bitch about...listen to this guy! This week's nonsense includes sampling and remixing and what I think is the responsible way to do such shenanigans plus why Metallica is responsible for the fall of civilization as we know it. Enjoy. Stuff to subscribe to it manually via iTunes is here. No, I don't know why we're not listed in iTunes. Stop asking. Categorized as: Rants
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07.17.06 by Widge @ 12:47 am  Make peace with your gods. Episode 4 is now up at Quick Stop Entertainment. Discussed: Pirates 2, the utter and complete humiliation of Superman Returns, and how Disney might actually be getting smart. Enjoy. No, we're still not up on iTunes. C'est la vie. I described how to subscribe manually on the Episode 1 post. Categorized as: Rants
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07.03.06 by Widge @ 3:04 am  Back once more to ruin your week from the get-go, it's the latest episode of Widge Goes Off. Catch it over at Quick Stop Entertainment. No, it's not up on iTunes yet. They're working on it. To set it up on your newsreader or iTunes yourself, all the info you need should be in my first post. Categorized as: Rants
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06.26.06 by Widge @ 9:59 am  That's right, WGO is back, this time as an honest to Satan podcast from Kevin Smith's entertainment site, Quick Stop Entertainment. It used to be Movie Poop Shoot, but it was inducted into the Hellfire Club, Mastermind screwed with its head, then it went apeshit, died and came back as a new character in a different costume. I'm sure Movie Poop Shoot is in a cocoon at the bottom of the Net, waiting to be revived by Kurt Busiek. Right. The new site is run by our own Ken Plume. We're so proud of him. I remember back in the day when he'd spit off the side of the unfinished building and say to me, "Widge, one of these them there days I'm gunna own this construction company." And he made good on his threat. So anyway, WGO's back. I don't know if it's bigger or better than ever. It's longer than ever. That's all I can promise you. And yes, my beard eats puppies. What of it? Update: Within moments of this, my switchboard lit up. "What's the RSS feed? What's the RSS feed?" Oh, right. You crazy kids. Remember, last time I did this we didn't have freaking RSS feeds. Back then you actually had to go to websites and read them for yourself. Geez. Okay, fine. Here's the main RSS feed for Quick Stop, and here's the feed for WGO. You people are masochists. I respect that. Update: A lot of the Quick Stop stuff is up on iTunes, but they're working on mine. In the meantime, go to Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast > and stick "http://quickstopentertainment.com/?feed=rss2&cat=15" into it. It's ugly, but it'll work for now. Categorized as: Rants
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10.14.05 by ScottC @ 12:01 am  Let's see, we had the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, and the War on Terror. Now that those wars are over and we've apparently declared victory (?) and since nobody has anything better or more important to take care of, we can now move onto a new priority: the War on Sex. State and federal governments promote abstinence only programs, school textbooks teach sex is bad for you, and the FBI making pornography one of the top priorities. Now there's a bill that just passed the House of Representatives that could make mainstream movies and television jump through the same bureaucratic hoops as pornographic productions. Of course, porn makes much money, so producers go to the trouble of dealing with the paperwork. But would your regular lazy Hollywood executive? Here's a link to the Senate Judiciary Committee. They're next in line to look at the bill. Why not send a note to your Senator saying you like sex and don't need the government to enact back door methods of censorship? As the Needcoffee.com Minister of Naughty Bits, I'm urging you to do so before frolicking = felony. Categorized as: Rants
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