Riddick looks a lot like a bigger budget version of Pitch Black to me — barren planet, group of armed people trying to catch Riddick, a storm, attacks by aliens — and yet, as I watch this new trailer, I find I don't really care, because it still looks completely awesome.
    
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Andrew.framptonThis is going to be required viewing when it airs.
D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have proven themselves game for interacting with shows vastly different than their HBO fantasy epic Game Of Thrones. Recently they swapped shows with Parks And Recreation’s Michael Schur and Dan Goor to write plot synopses of an episode for Entertainment Weekly. Now they’ve taken their collaborative spirit a step further, with Rob McElhenney announcing via Twitter that Benioff and Weiss wrote an episode of the upcoming season of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Other details haven’t trickled out yet, but the show moves to FX’s new youth-oriented FXX channel sometime in the fall. Benioff’s other writing credits include 25th Hour and The Kite Runner, so we’re all in for a laugher. Perhaps the collaboration will lead to a Sunny-written episode of Game Of Thrones, presumably where Tyrion and Bronn spend the entire episode in a King ...
Read moreAndrew.framptonAaaaaaand Sully feeds the troll.
“If a gay man — or, let’s face it, a straight man — can’t make an HIV joke and somehow connect it with Glee, then I guess we’re all lost in The French Royal Court of West Hollywood,” – Brett Easton Ellis, in a piece to which I can only respond: hurrah!
And, yes, Weekend is the first honest movie about gay life today I have seen. And fuck GLAAD.
Andrew.framptonI would make the trip.
The idea of video game-themed bars is nothing new, but there's something about the idea of this video game-themed restaurant that I can get behind.
EXP Restaurant + Bar is in Vancouver, Canada, and while it might be going a little overboard with the whole VIDEO GAMES THEME - giant screens showing gameplay is a bit much - I love the menus. Love them. Multiplayer? Wonderful.
Zelda burgers with a triforce grilled into the pattie is also a nice touch.
EXP, A Video Game Themed Bar & Restaurant (Plus Menu) [Geekologie]
EXP [Site]
This is indie rock band Murder by Death covering the most rocking classic rock of our times, and I can't turn away.
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Yuko Shimizu recently posted a gallery of amazing science fiction-style art at the portfolio site Behance. A couple were covers for the Vertigo series The Unwritten, but most consisted of book covers and illustrations that were too good not to share. Shimizu posts pictures of the unadorned illustrations beside shots of the images out in the wild, for context. As well as being a great illustrator, she’s an extremely talented designer.
My personal favorite after the jump may well be the Robert Crumb-referencing piece for a Fused TV magazine ad: Keep on space truckin’, indeed.
Beauty Belongs To The Flowers, a sci fi novella by Matthew Sanborn Smith, published on tor.com. Art direction: Irene Gallo.
The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente, soon to be published from Viz Media’s inprint HAIKASORU. Art direction: Nick Mamatas, design: Fawn Lau.
The Future is Japanese an anthology of Japanese themed SciFi short stories, published from Viz Media’s inprint Haikasoru. Art direction: Nick Mamatas.
Originally commissioned by NPR for a calendar image, later used for FUSE TV advertising and posters.
Genesis by Bernard Beckett published by Rizzoli Romanzo of Italy. Art direction: Mucca Design, Hana Anouk Nakamura.
Neil Gaiman’s short stories Fragile Things cover (and Neil Gaiman portrait) published by Harper. Originally commissioned by New York Times Book Review, art direction, Nicholas Blechman.
Steampunk! anthology edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant from Candlewick Press
art direction: Nathan Pyritz.
Andrew.framptonWerk.
Hawken employees genderflip CEO's sexy lady poster, have a laugh originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 14 May 2013 20:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Andrew.framptonKeep it classy, Philly!
Eagles running back LeSean McCoy is being sued by a woman who claims McCoy and his bodyguard assaulted her on a party bus before abandoning her somewhere along the New Jersey Turnpike last December.
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Vice President Joe Biden and an intrepid second-grader have joined forces to reform gun control based on one simple platform: chocolate bullets.
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Andrew.framptonSkippy, some would see this as a fun infographic. Me? I see this as the blueprint for an AWESOME weekend.
Pop Chart Lab offers this chart of cocktails featured in your favorite stories as a fine art print. There are 49 recipes in all, as drunk by James Bond, Hunter S. Thompson, Ebenezer Scrooge, Rocky Balboa, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Jay Gatsy, and more.
Browse the whole thing in full size size at the site. Link -via Nag on the Lake
The solo performance began shortly into the flight from Los Angeles to New York and her crooning quickly became too much for passengers and staff on the domestic flight last Thursday. The pilot was forced to change course halfway through the six hour flight and make an unscheduled stop at Kansas City so officers could escort the woman from the plane. Airport spokesman Joe McBride told WBTV: "The woman was being disruptive and was removed from the plane for interfering with the flight crew. There was a federal air marshal on the aircraft, who subdued the woman and put her in cuffs and removed her from the plane."The woman was still singing as she was taken from the cabin in handcuffs. During her interview with local police, she claimed to be a diabetic in need of medication. The cops released her without charges, but the airline refused to allow her to board another flight.
Over the weekend, Lamborghini unveiled its new concept car: the Egoista. The design is rather unusual, even for Lamborghini. Some hate it! Some like it. Some are even comparing it to geeky things.
There's the obvious comparison—namely, that the car looks like the Mach 5, the iconic car from Speed Racer. Load of people on 2ch, Japan's largest internet forum, seem to think that. They also think it looks "too dorky". How can the car from Speed Racer be dorky?! Madness!
Others thought the Egoista looks like those Tamiya toy cars.
That's not the only comparison: With that gray color, the front of the car sure looks like the Nintendo 64 controller.
Our colleagues at Jalopnik have a defense of this batshit insane looking car.
新コンセプト”エゴイスタ”がダサすぎる！ [2ch]
Photo for N64 comparison.
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Andrew.framptonSo um... is it a population density thing, or do people just not tweet stupid things as much out west?
This is The Geography of Hate – a cartographical collection of every geotagged tweet in the continental U.S. between June 2012 and April 2013 in which the word "chink," "gook," "nigger," "wetback," "spic," "dyke" "fag," "homo," "queer" or "cripple" was used in an explicitly negative way.
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Andrew.framptonI will give this to him, not only does he have a great 40 yard dash, he also has an escape plan.
Andrew.frampton"It's not a hang over, It's food poisoning -- I swear!"
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Here are the creepiest, crawliest, and down-right ickiest creatures ever to swim the depths of the oceans. So, if you need me I'll be right here in the shallow end of the kiddie pool. Happy swimming, everybody!
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Deep within the bowels of a Bailey's Powerhouse Gym in Jacksonville, Florida, is where David Wilson finally found his spirit animal: The Treadmill Dancer.
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Andrew.framptonThis is a most wonderful indirect love letter to Kluwe.
Who is this person, and what has he done with our beloved Chris Kluwe?
The draft has come and gone, but there are still plenty of under the radar picks we could know a bit better. After all, most of us didn’t bother sitting through three horrible days of the NFL Draft.
Name: Jeff Locke
Position: Punter and kickoff specialist
Selected by: Minnesota Vikings
Reaction:
That’s a bold move Cotton. Lets see how it plays.
— Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) April 27, 2013
Pick: 155th (5th round)
School: UCLA
Outspoken proponent on social issues?: I said UCLA, not Cal. (oh yeah, Kluwe went to UCLA too didn’t he?)
Secret that the Vikings don’t know about yet: He likes dogs*, and it’s a slippery slope from belly rubs to bestiality.
Major: Economics
Hobby: Video games
Which is only mentioned because: It stings Kluwe that much deeper.
Twitter: @JeffLocke18
Notable highlight real feature: He can’t kick the ball without injuring himself.
Which, by kicker/punter standards, makes him: TOUGH AS NAILS, BRO.
Strength: Making footballs go boom
Weakness: Off-field blogworthiness
Loved by: Michele Bachmann
Hated by: Michele Bachmann when she finds out he kicks with his left foot (aka the satanic foot)
What scouts are saying: He punts. He kicks. He punts and kicks and punts. Punt punt punt, kick kick kick, The Punty and Kicky Show! (scouts don’t really scout punters, right?)
Immediate impact: Punts the ball about as well as Chris Kluwe, but without all of the independent thoughts. Much ballyhooed kickoff ability becomes moot when the Vikings remember they already have a kicker who is both really effective, and doesn’t spend his evenings responding to fans of the team who call him a f*g lover on Twitter.
Down the road: Fails to make the cover of Out Magazine
*I don’t know for a fact that he likes dogs, but he his silence on the topic has said volumes. What are you hiding, Mr. Locke?
The post Better Know A Draft Pick: That Prick Who Took Kluwe’s Job appeared first on Kissing Suzy Kolber.
Wake up! You are not dreaming. This is really happening. Well, in Japan at least.
Fast food joint Lotteria is teaming with ramen restaurant Menya Musashi for this culinary collaboration—a first of its kind, apparently, for the hamburger chain. Thus, as IT Media reports, the resulting burger is called "Menya Musashi Ramen Burger".
The noodles are lightly fried into a ramen patty, which is placed between two burger buns along with tender pork cutlet and mayonnaise. The burger is also served with "katsuo dashi" (a type of Japanese broth) soup.
Priced at 634 yen (US$6.30), the limited time only burger with soup is available starting May 20. You can even order a second ramen patty for only 100 yen.
ロッテリア史上初、ラーメンをバーガーにした「麺屋武蔵ラーメンバーガー」発売 [IT Media]
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Here we see Donald Trump breaking one of the core rules of the internet: "don't feed the trolls."
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Speaking at a forum on human trafficking at Johns Hopkins University, kidnapping and rape survivor Elizabeth Smart offered personal insight into why someone in an ordeal similar to the one she endured would have a hard time running away from their captor.
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