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06.14.09 by Widge @ 5:48 pm  Remember how I postulated about Night of the Living Dead: The Opera? I had this idea about the living singing in Italian, the dead in German (with lots of basso profundo) and so forth. Well, turns out some version of it has already been done. Damn! Squonk Opera did it for City Theatre in Pittsburgh back in 1995...so we were told by one of Squonk's head burritos, Steve O'Hearn. You can go check out their site here with the info on the Dead Opera here (along with a few shots of the stage in action) here. And Papa Romero and the stars of the film came out to see it. Sadly, though, there's no video of the performance. Double damn! Somebody really needs to do a revival. I'm just saying. Categorized as: Stimuli
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06.07.09 by Bob the Zombie @ 1:47 am  Jimmy Durante by far is one of the best musicians to come out of America. In fact, every single time I hear him sing, it makes me think of at least one movie in particular: My Stepmother is an Alien. Now, I know you are probably wondering "Why this connection?" Have you ever had the feeling that you had some sort of connection to a film from your childhood that you just can't seem to get away from? That one film that makes you think about your childhood and go "Yeah, that was a great moment." As silly as this may be, for me that film was My Stepmother is an Alien. The story goes like this: the first film that I ever saw by myself in the theaters just after sneaking out of school (sorry Mom) was this film. Granted the movie did come out in 1988, and I was still but a wee lass, the film was always being re-shown at the local dollar theater a few blocks away from where I went to summer school. (On a sidebar: Take you hats off to the Dollar Movie Theaters around the U.S.A. they work their butts off to give us cheap entertainment…pause for a moment of silence and a sip of whatever you may be drinking.) Categorized as: Stimuli
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05.29.09 by ScottC @ 11:30 pm  I know I've said this many times before but thank you for playing. I was kinda worried if people would sign up and then continue to the finish. But Rox, Astan, DoninikH, Leigh, evrwrldBB, and Kebe stayed to the bitter end. But how I have to figure out who won. But I think you all did a great job. In other words, please don't hate me if you didn't win. I used several criteria for judging. The originally of the choices made, how well the group would work in a team, how well balanced the team was, and how well the team could handle anything that the Vault through at them. After some considering, I came up with a winner. Categorized as: Stimuli
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05.27.09 by ScottC @ 12:14 pm We are at the final round. I would once again like to thank all the participants for going along with my mad scheme. There have been some very interesting choices from comics, television, film, and literature. You can check these out at the Geek Draft Table. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can check the description and rules here. Now we move on to Round Five. Leigh, make your selection. Categorized as: Stimuli
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05.25.09 by ScottC @ 11:43 pm We have completed the second round picks. I would again like to thank all the participants for going along with my mad scheme. There have been some more classic standbys as well as some more very interesting choices. You can check these out at the Geek Draft Table. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can check the description and rules here. Now we move on to Round Three. Leigh, make your selection. Categorized as: Stimuli
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