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Stuff: America Has the Pop Factor? What, Are You Nuts?

Posted on 05.10.09 by Widge @ 11:37 pm
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Peter Kay as Geraldine McQueen with Paul McCartney

Because there's a lot of pop culture stuff out there. And you don't need an entire website to cover it minute by minute. It'll still be there when we get there. Trust us.

Peter Kay was in Los Angeles to snag an award and said he had been asked to make an American version of Britain's Got the Pop Factor and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice. If you have seen it--and if you haven't, you should by *cough* any means necessary--then you, like me, know that it would never, ever work in America. We're still angsting over a tit from five years ago--I doubt if the wildly un-PC show would work even on cable. Kay seems not to be crazy about the idea for other reasons--he says he has no desire to "crack America"--but the show works in the UK and shouldn't be imported. It just can't translate. America's just not mature enough for that level of genius. Source. (To get a bit of Peter Kay as Geraldine McQueen, we posted her Christmas single here.)

Technically, this Day The Earth Stood Still shirt isn't something you need to know, but it's nice to know about if you saw the remake and felt dirty afterwards and feel like you need to do something to make amends.

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Stuff: Supreme Court Breast Fixation Requires an Intervention

Posted on 05.04.09 by Widge @ 5:45 pm
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Pop culture news you can actually use. Or if not use, then at least read without feeling like you just lost five minutes of your life. Because those five minutes...they do add up.

The Supreme Court, because it didn't have anything else better to do, has ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at the thrown-out $550K fine against CBS for the 2004 Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.

Let me repeat that in simple terms: in the midst of an international recession and a flu hysteria pandemic, the U.S. government wants to re-open a case about a tit appearing on national television...five years ago. Dear rest of the world: please mock us for this. Because, honestly, we deserve it. What the fuck. Source.

Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series is coming out July 28th. It's big. Twenty-five DVDs or Twenty Blu-Rays. You can pre-order the DVD version here or the Blu-Ray version here.

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Stuff: Fleeting Expletives = Deck Chairs on the Decency Titanic

Posted on 05.02.09 by Widge @ 5:43 am
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Many sites want you to spend all day reading their regurgitated press releases. We would never dream of wasting your time like that. But like this--this is fair game.

In a bit of retro madness/genius, Reebok is putting out shoes based on the movie Gremlins, which I'm sad to say, turns 25 this year. Shown is a snippet of the Gremlin shoe. There's also a Mogwai shoe. No idea where you can get a pair for yourself, though. Source.

Is it possible? Can it be? After years of lamenting over the loss of funnyman Chevy Chase--he's in a pilot for NBC that looks like it'll get picked up for series? It's called Community and I fear it will either be brilliant and last all of four episodes or be shit and last for all of four seasons. We shall see.

Death Note is going to be remade into a live-action film by Warner Brothers, or at least the first three volumes of the manga. The scribes who did Tarsem's aforementioned War of the Gods are on board. Source.

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Stuff: Abraham Lincoln to Fight Vampires; Gillian Anderson to Fight Who

Posted on 04.27.09 by Widge @ 1:59 am
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This is the trailer for One-Eyed Monster, which is what happens when the adult film industry and horror collide. It's funny. But it's wrong. And it has Ron Jeremy in the cast. And whether or not it's SFW is up to you. Just wear headphones at least.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

Amazon has a crapload of sci-fi titles on sale. I've picked out some choice ones...

The 3-disc edition of the Dune miniseries for $8.49. (Doc's review of it is here if you want a detailed look at what it offers.)
The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers for $8.49.
Star Trek: The Animated Series $18.99, 51% off
The original War of the Worlds for $6.99

And there's a slew of television--like Stargate, X-Files and Trek--for decent prices as well. Check it all out here.

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Stuff: AMG is Coming Right At You... Yes, You There on the Couch

Posted on 04.15.09 by Widge @ 3:48 am
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Amazon has the upcoming 2-Blu-Ray/1 DVD combo of Snow White (which we had previously mentioned) available for pre-order. You can pre-order that here or the straight-up 2-DVD version here. They're out October 6th and November 24th respectively. Also, Spaceballs hits Blu-Ray on June 16th. You can pre-order yours here.

AMG wants to be the first 3-D network. The gist of what you need to know is that AMG TV is being bought and the folks behind it want to build up enough of a library that they can have "the first full-time 3-D network in the country." How do you get the tech to have 3-D at home, so we can watch cool shit like Coraline and Monsters vs. Aliens and such? "two solutions: an add-on box for cable and satellite subscribers; and an 'enhancement' that will turn any HD television into a 3-D TV for about $50, including the cost of glasses." Ah, but the coolness is tempered: they call it a 5 on a scale of 1-10 for quality, but it beats what we have right now for home options. Man, the 3-D sci-fi and horror festivals alone might be worth the price of admission for that thing, I don't know about you guys... Source.

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