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Test of ECTO and YouTube video

By Marc • Nov 18th, 2006 • Category: Computers, Misc, On The Web, Pop Culture, Software, the Site, the Weirdo

Another test for Ecto. This time for YouTube Video….
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Looks like it’s going to work…..



Merry Christmas from Chewbacca and someone with way too much time on their hands

By Marc • Dec 26th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

You need a little fair warning before you click on the link though. It is…..UM…..noisy.

[Chewbacca sings!]

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Vincent Schiavelli has Died

By Marc • Dec 26th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, Prayer for the Dead

Now, I’m not going to get all sentimental and say anything like “I grew up with Vincent Schiavelli”, but I can say he has played a big part of the movie entertainment experience in my life. I remember well his roles ranging from the recovering coffee addict science teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High [...]



Blalock To Guest Star on Lost – My Theory

By Marc • Dec 24th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

Dark Horizons is reporting a rumor from E! Online that Jolene Blalock of “Enterprise” fame will star in an episode of ABC’s hit series “Lost.”
Blalock was originally slated to guest star in the second episode of the season in a Sawyer (Josh Holloway) backstory. Instead the episode was swapped for a Michael (Harold Perrineau Jr.) [...]



Apple adds ABC’s “Commander in Chief” to iTunes

By Marc • Dec 20th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

Adding to its growing list of available television shows on the iTunes Music Store, Apple on Tuesday announced the addition of ABC’s popular series Commander in Chief. Commander in Chief, which features Geena Davis as the first female President of the United States, will sell for $1.99 and joins other ABC shows “Desperate Housewives,” “Lost,” [...]



Mirror mirror on the wall

By Marc • Dec 14th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

…who has the best idea for a Star Trek movie of them all?
The Canmag.com Web site reported a rumor that William Shatner is one of the former Star Trek captains who would appear in a proposed new Trek movie set in the “mirror” universe. Citing an anonymous source, the site reported that a script is [...]



Free Enterprise 2 – I can’t wait

By Marc • Dec 14th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

The good news is that they’re making a sequel to Free Enterprise. The bad news it that Spock won’t be in it. This movie was a brilliant spoof of life as a SciFi geek. It was a special treat for those of us growing up in the eighties when SciFi hit it [...]



Al Sharpton wants his own sitcom

By Marc • Dec 5th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – He has led civil rights marches, scolded the nation’s leaders and even run for president, but the Rev.
Al Sharpton now wants to do something completely different — star in his own television sitcom.
And what Al Sharpton wants, Al Sharpton gets. I have to admit though that this is not a [...]



Bad review of “New World”

By Marc • Dec 2nd, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Ranter

It sounds like Terrence Malick has yet again quit his seclusion from Hollywood to make a rehash of his other movies.
However: in most ways “The New World” is surreal, slow, confusing, choppy and just plain weird. I mean this in the best way — it’s really interesting filmmaking. But it’s also psychedelic and kooky.
That was [...]



Two new TV show titles on DVD just in time for Christmas

By Marc • Dec 1st, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

OK….OK….I know Serenity is a feature film. But it’s based on a TV show so it still counts right?
Anyway, both of these are going to be released on Dec. 20th. If any needs some ideas for what to get me, they’re right here.
One of my old co-workers from Memphis claims [...]



The new Doctor Who on DVD

By Marc • Nov 30th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek, the Ranter

Yeah yeah yeah…..This is cool and all. But a hundred bucks for thirteen episodes???? You gotta be kidding me!
The BBC told SCI FI Wire that it will release the complete first season of the new British SF TV series Doctor Who on DVD in the United States on Feb. 14, 2006, offering Americans [...]



Walk the Line – A screen writer cashes in

By Marc • Nov 28th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, Theater

I have really two things to say, then I’ll elaborate. “Great movie!” and “Awful script!”
I’ll start with the good, because this is a great movie. It’s entertaining and a wonderful watch for us Johnny cash fans. The acting is superb. I can’t really say I was expecting much from Joaquin Phoenix [...]



TeeVee.org: Lost Explained!

By Marc • Nov 28th, 2005 • Category: On The Web, Pop Culture, the Geek

Did anyone out there ever play the old text adventure games like “Zork” or “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”? Do you also watch the show “Lost“?
If so, then you have to go read this….
Today, while driving – driving and showering always bring out the most thoughtful – in me I finally unravelled what’s [...]



Beloved actor Pat Morita dies

By Marc • Nov 25th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, Prayer for the Dead

It a sad day. This guy was an awesome actor. He will be missed…..
The 73-year-old died at his home in Las Vegas on Thursday of natural causes, his wife Evelyn said.
Born in California to immigrant fruit pickers, he was among the thousands of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps during World War II.
Morita, who [...]



Wie Is Five Strokes Off Lead Against Men

By Marc • Nov 24th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

“KOCHI, Japan – Nervous at the start but encouraged by a couple of late birdies, Michelle Wie was five strokes off the lead in a men’s tournament Thursday and optimistic about making the cut.”
She should be OK, as log as she doesn’t have to take a drop.
[Wie Is Five Strokes Off Lead Against Men - [...]



Cruise buys sonogram machine

By Marc • Nov 24th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

“LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Not every family can afford one at a price tag of up to $200,000 (116,000 pounds), but actor Tom Cruise says he bought a sonogram machine for his pregnant fiance, actress Katie Holmes, so that they can monitor the development of their child.”
I’m surprised this isn’t against Scientology. He does [...]



Today’s Dilbert

By Marc • Nov 22nd, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

Dilbert’s one of my favorites. But today’s was extra funny. If it worked for Scott Adams, it can work for anyone….
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Braga Is Sorry He Didn’t Listen More To Fans

By Marc • Nov 21st, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

“Brannon Braga conceded that he should have stayed more in touch with the fans during his tenure on Star Trek and conceded that he made some wrong moves”
DUH!
[TrekToday - Braga Is Sorry He Didn't Listen More To Fans]



Cast for the Stargate shows

By Marc • Nov 21st, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Geek

“Claudia Black (Farscape) joins the regular cast of SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate SG-1 in its upcoming 10th season, and the principal cast members of both SG-1 and its spinoff series, Stargate Atlantis, have signed on to reprise their roles in the recently announced new seasons, the network said.

I’ve heard talk that the reason [...]



Aguilera Reportedly Marrying This Weekend

By Marc • Nov 19th, 2005 • Category: Pop Culture, the Weirdo

“NEW YORK -
Christina Aguilera has found out what a girl wants, and now she’s marrying him.

Just what ever you do, don’t tell me her fiancee’s last name is “Bratman”….
“Wedding festivities for the pop singer and fiancee Jordan Bratman began Thursday in northern California’s Napa Valley,”
I was afraid you were going to tell me that. [...]