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08/01/2007
Hot Nerd-On-Nerd Action from Comic-Con
Okay, technically British TV personality Jonathan Ross isn't a nerd, and Neil Gaiman isn't so much a nerd as he is the Paul McCartney of quality comics (he's also a New York Times-bestselling author!). But when you're at the San Diego Comic-Con, it just kind of rubs off on you.
This awkward kiss at the Eisners (the comic book equivalent of the Oscars) is more than a little staged. But if there's anything more adorable than a flustered British man in a leather jacket, I don't want to know about it.
07/18/2007
Lily Allen's Third Nipple
The Western world is pretty lenient when it comes to the exposure of cleavage -- it's only when we get to the aureola line that Standards and Practices reaches for the big red button. But where do we as a civilization stand in regards to third nipples? This is the question raised, thanks to Lily Allen's appearance on variety show/talk show hybrid The Friday Night Project.
Given that in medieval times, Allen would have been persecuted as a witch for that sort of physical deformity, we have to admire her bravery. FNP, Britain's answer to Saturday Night Live, often gets more than a little raunchy. But it's not often that a guest willingly exposes side boob.
12/04/2006
Harry Potter and the Behind-The-Scenes Clips
The clips are too short to glean much from, but the tidbits gathered are pretty entertaining. Imelda Staunton, who plays the sweetly villainous Delores Umbridge, talks about how much she enjoys wearing pink. Helena Bonham Carter sexes up her standard goth queen look. And Emma Watson talks about how Hermonine's not afraid to kick Ron's ass. One thing made clear: in a series about a teenage boy, it's the girls who rock the hardest.
The clips also emphasize that without special effects, nothing looks sillier than grown men and women spinning about and waving wands at each other. However, special effects have never been this series's weakness, and while Order of the Phoenix is the longest and most complicated of the Harry Potter books, if properly abridged it'll be pretty awesome in movie form. Especially the bits where awkward teenagers have to kiss each other. Ah, young wizard love.
11/20/2006
Modern Day Robin Hood
Featured on the cover of today’s New York Post, the Modern Day Robin Hood's mission is to open “minds up to a better world and a better way of living and be good to others.”
This video, currently holding YouTube’s top spot, is rough footage of two self-proclaimed “absolutely mad English guys” tossing money about the streets on New York. Dressed as Disney-esque versions of the heroic criminal, Robin Hood, these two blokes appear to be taking from the rich and giving to the…innocent bystander.
It's amazing how a cloud of cash turns a passive crowd into a mob of city-folk clawing at each other over a few bills.
