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Pest Problem
Holy crap! Earlier this week I was looking for a glue trap to catch a couple of wolf spiders that wandered into my living room. I didn't realize they sold traps big or strong enough to catch a rat or a...
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The Walking Dead, Season 5, Episode 4: Slabtown
Well, that was... different.This week The Walking Dead takes a break from the main characters and tries to do a little bit of world building, giving us a glimpse at how the zombie apocalypse is...
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I've Had It With These Monkey Fighting People Feeding Themselves To These...
This week the Discovery Channel announced an upcoming new special titled Eaten Alive, in which a man wearing a "snake proof suit" will allow himself to be eaten by an anaconda.I know what you're...
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Christmas Creep 2014
I went for a walk after work tonight-- after dark of course, thanks to the miracle of Daylight Savings Time-- and saw the first Xmas tree of the season in the window of a neighborhood home. Jesus...
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Doctor Who Season 8, Episode 12: Death In Heaven
Now that's how you close out a season! After a very, very uneven batch of episodes, showrunner Steven Moffat pulled out all the stops and managed to prevent Season 8 from being a total wash with this...
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This Week In Clueless Advertising
This week a Turkish cosmetics company ran an ad for hair removal product Epila, featuring the bleary-eyed image of known terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. You may remember Mr. Mohammed as the chief...
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The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 5: Self Help
This week The Walking Deadfinally finds the time to actually do something with the Abraham, Eugene and Rosita trio. They first showed up eleven episodes ago, way back in Season 4's Inmates. Oddly...
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Jesus Is Just Alright
I saw this in a used book store over the weekend.Wow, that is quite the image of Jesus there. Just look at those chisled cheekbones. Those tousled brown locks. The impossibly wide, toothy grin. The...
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The Flash Season 1, Episode 5: Plastique
The Flash is back after taking last week off for election day. See, pretty much every TV show was a rerun last week, because the networks believed that people would be demand to see their local...
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Quoth The Plasma Rifle: Nevermore!
This week toy company Project TriForce released this new prop: the Anniversary Edition Plasma Rifle Full Scale Replica from the Halo 2 video game.The Plasma Rifle replica is 24.5" inches in length,...
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Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2, Episode 7: The Writing On The Wall
This week Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to move things right along as they resolve a plot point that I thought would be dragged out until the end of the season. I for one welcome these accelerated...
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Plane Truth
Takes a good look at this poster for Disney's Planes: Fire & Rescue.Let's say we accept the conceit that these aircraft are living, breathing creatures, and their windshields, props and engine...
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It Came From The Cineplex: Fury
Fury was written and directed by David Ayer, who also wrote U-571, Training Day, The Fast And The Furious, S.W.A.T. and End Of Watch. I don't have a lot to say about this film. It's reasonably...
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This Week In Dubious Ad Slogans
So I'm watching TV last night and I see this commercial for Always Discreet Underwear.It's thirty seconds of scenes of various women, all presumably with bladder control issues, dancing and whooping it...
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The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 6: Consumed
Not a lot happens in this week's episode. It's long on mood and short on plot and dialog, as it fills in the missing piece of the puzzle started when the characters split up at the church in Four Walls...
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This Week In Derivative DVD Covers
This is the cover for the soon to be released complete series box set of Sliders.If you'll recall, Sliders was a 1990s TV series that told the story of a group of reluctant explorers who jumped from...
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The Flash Season 1, Episode 6: The Flash Is Born
This week on The Flash we get an obscure (to me anyway) supervillain, Iris keeps blogging, the STAR Labs Gang gets more character development and the real identity of Dr. Wells becomes even murkier.By...
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This Week In Ill-Advised Program Icons
So I'm watching The Flash on the CW last night, and I notice that whenever they run an in-house promo for one of their shows, they put these little icons in the corner of the screen.They look like...
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Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2, Episode 8: The Things We Bury
Wow, there was quite a lot going on in this episode, so let's get right to it.But before we do, one thing-- there's only one more episode this year and then the series is going on hiatus until March....
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M-O-O-N, That Spells, "I Have A Slightly Better Feeling About This"
Way back in June of this year I posted an epic rant about the news that Hollywood was adapting Stephen King's massive novel The Stand into a single measly film.As a long-time fan of the book I didn't...
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