Archive for June, 2010
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Monday, June 21st, 2010McDonald’s has revealed the series of new Happy Meal toys that tie-in with the upcoming The Last Airbender movie, and for the most part, they are–as expected–truly terrible. With the exception of one piece: the “Appa and Momo Launcher” toy. Yes, I know it’s a cheap piece-of-shite plastic toy that directly contributes to overflowing landfills [...]
Holy Yikes!: Star Wars General Grievous Costume [Cosplay]
Monday, June 21st, 2010Don’t let the German-speaking guy in the first 40 seconds of the video distract you. I know how people who wear knit winter caps indoors irk you something fierce. Which is part of why I love you. No, skip to about 0:41 for a close-up look at and demonstration of the guy’s homemade General Grievous [...]
Rematch!: Lord of the Rings vs. The Vuvuzela [Video]
Monday, June 21st, 2010Sure, the whole “vuvuzela ruining Lord of the Rings” thing has already been visited in an animated GIF. But you can’t very well add terribly-grating music to the already-horrible soundzzzzz of bzzzzzzzz with a GIF, now can you? Oh, wish fulfillment. You look a lot like Gandalf regulating on the vuvuzela players all Balrog-bustin’ style. And [...]
Twitter Link Sampler – Week Ending June 19, 2010
Sunday, June 20th, 2010Follow my Twitter profile or the GWS Facebook Page to get GWS updates and other geeky goodness from around the electric web thing. I’d follow her into battle. Any time. http://i.imgur.com/f0chf.jpg HA! Contra vs. Tetris. http://bit.ly/aW5zX4 HOLY HELL. (1) Go to www.newsweek.com (2) Enter the Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter [ZOMBIES!] Captain [...]
Good Acting Is So Overrated: Star Trek “I’m Captain Kirk!” [Video]
Friday, June 18th, 2010It’s any day of the week, so you know what that means… time to bring attention to the unremitting ridiculousness that is the original series of Star Trek!* And so, in the immortal-ish words of Jon Lovitz on Saturday Night Live, I present to you: ACT-TING! …by William Shatner. For my money, the Emmy moment [...]
He’s Flying-ish!: Boba Fett Costume [Cosplay]
Friday, June 18th, 2010This Boba Fett costume project has been floating around the interconnected web tubules for a couple of years. Regardless of whether you’ve seen it before or not, consider my posting it an incredibly gracious favor from me to you. If you have seen it, please enjoy your smug sense of self-satisfaction, you diligent little internet-scourer, [...]
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