Merry Chistmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kawanzaa

...or whatever it is you'll be celebrating this holiday season. This is my son's second Christmas, and whatever feelings I had towards the holiday before him have vanished. It's all about the children in your life, or your friends and family. No matter what you're presently going through we all know that someone is worse off in this world. This is my post to wish you and yours Happy Holidays!

And my fondest wish is that you're with the person you love most in this world!

Merry Holidays from SunandHeir!

My Son and I

I realise I don't generally do anything remotely personal with this blog, but this picture stopped me. I was dumping my pix onto the computer when I saw this one. As my mother likes to say, "You couldn't deny that boy if you wanted to." Our lips are even the same when we watch Yo Gabba Gabba. Gods I love my son.

John Williams Superman Theme...With Words?!

Wow this is messed up.

Interesting Bits VII

Yes, I have been slack lately. Just posting bits at random in daily posts, but hell, it's the bloody holidays. Besides, most of my web enablers have taken off early for the end of the year. Unless of course what you wanted were just Top 20 End of the Year bullshit. Can't swing a dead cat on the interwebs without hitting one of those right now. Anyways, here it is. I know, hurry up and get to the Interesting Bits....

Can He Be Stopped?

Along with another entertainment related bitch this week about Frank Miller directing, news is confirming that Keanu Reeves is still attached to the Cowboy Bebop (aka Kauboi bibappu) movie. Thereby making it so if I wish to see my favourite anime series brought to live action I'll have to hate myself to do it. Just like with The Matrix, I'll wind up hating myself for paying money to watch Keanu Reeves.

Keanu Reeves Eager To ‘Do Something Good’ With ‘Cowboy Bebop’

If he truly wished to do something good can he please not ruin this and take 20 years of acting lessons before he attempts it? Pretty please?

Why the Hell Wasn't My School Like This?

The University of Chicago announced that it will be offering Co-Ed dorm rooms. They say it's not exclusively for romantically involved couples (read college kids sleeping together), but will be offered openly. How would you like that? Like playing the lotto. You sign up, maybe get a room mate to drool over for a school year or one who makes you want to claw your eyes out and scrub your memories with a brillo pad after you see your roomie naked the first time. Actually 50/50 odds ain't too shabby. Check out the full story at Huffington Post.

Battlestar Webisodes

If you haven't been keeping track, the 3^rd Battlestar Galactica webisode The Face of the Enemy was released on Friday. Apparently they're releasing them on Fridays and Mondays now. These are heaps better then the You Will Know the Truth site on Sci-Fi releasing crappy little tidbits up until the January the 16^th start date. Plus, they have enhanced versions with Jane Espenson of Buffy the Vampire Slayer writing fame doing commentary.




Want to See How Big of a Film Addict You Are?

The IMDb’s Top 250 movies of all time is up and over at Flim Addict they're made an easy way for you to check and see how big of a film geek you are. Apparently I've had way too much time on my hands this lifetime. I've seen 91.6% of them.

"Where's My Fucking Jet Pack?"

I'm quoting my favourite comic at the moment Doktor Sleepless by the master Warren Ellis. People ask questions like that in the comic not realising they're already living in the future. On that front, UCLA scientists have discovered a way to hack "a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses" I mean truly, how cool is this? Check out the whole story over at Wired.com.

Dan Brown Fans Rejoice

Three almost invisible drawings have been discovered on the back of DaVinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. Probably like most artists he didn't care for what he drew there or simply wished to sketch something out before he forgot about it, but the Illuminati may have been involved...cue suspenseful music. Check out the full story at The Times.

Two Articles Every 16 Year Old Should Memorize

Vice Magazine is reprinting some popular articles whilst everyone is screwing about at the end of the year. The Vice Guide to Eating Pussy and The Vice Guide to Giving Head.

"Extra tip: To keep the rhythm going, try repeating a chant in your head that goes with the movement of your tongue like a Micmac Indian (hi-yi-yi-ya, hi-yi-yi-ya, hi-yi-yi-ya). Any inconsistent action may throw her off, killing the mood or at least setting you back a few minutes, which is bad for morale."

How much would an article like this have helped me earlier in life? I mean I had to go to the library at 12 and look up what a clitoris was and what the big deal was, and there sure as hell wasn't a how to guide. If you can get past the free use of rather salty language...you might learn something.

Let me leave you with a few quotes that keep going through my head in response to the Iraqi Prime Minister wanting to put that poor bastard reporter in jail for 7-8 years for chucking 2 shoes at Dubya. The first from Benjamin Franklin:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Apparently they've beaten this poor man to where he's apologised to President Bush expressing his "remorse." Now, no, I don't wish for journalist to throw shoes at our commander in chief. It disrespects the office and the country, but no more then Dubya himself has done over the past 8 years. Perhaps it's better to quote Ice-T in this instance:

Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Fucking Say."

Frank Miller, You Are Not My Friend Anymore...

After being lucky...ummm...after seeing Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit last week I just gotta say it. Frank, please stick to drawing and writing funny books. This movie more then any I've seen this year epitomised "Black Hole" to me. A Black Hole movie to me is one that sucks so hard that nothing can escape it. Not humour, not careers, hell, maybe not Lionsgate.

Mayhap Robert Rodriguez was being a really nice guy when Frank got a "co"-directing credit for Sin City. Maybe it was just part of Miller releasing the property to make the movie, but it was not a good thing. The Spirit basically looks exactly like Sin City crossed with the Batman television show of the 60's. I realise that Rodriguez himself didn't go to film school and sold plasma here in Austin to make El Mariachi, but some people can direct and some people can't. I don't think Rodriguez would try and draw 300 or The Dark Knight, and there's a reason Zack Synder didn't let him "direct" 300. Please don't take my word on this let's hear from people who do this for a living: Variety.

And now? Now what is eeking through the entertainment cracks? That it's almost a done deal that Frank Miller will direct Buck Rogers. To further strain credulity, Odd Lot Entertainment, these same people who put The Spirit in Mr. Miller's hands are the people negotiating for the rights!! The Hollywood Reporter says that Miller will be using, "a darker take, with many of Miller's signature visual elements and themes, such as corruption and redemption." Visions of Twiki having someone's head stuck on his hand for half the movie are dancing though my head.

Really?

Frank ya have a lot of money. Any publisher in the world, not just funny book companies, will give you a blank cheque and let you do whatever the hell you want. You get away with writing the worst Batman lines in the almost 70 year history of the character in All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder...

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Please stop taking the attitude with properties that people have loved for decades and going with, "I am the Goddamn Frank Miller."

A Who Christmas That Isn't Dr. Seuss

Found on IO9 something to brighten nerd holidays everywhere. I give you a Dalek Christmas tree. From someone with more time on their hands then me...

Rest in Peace Majel Barrett Roddenberry

The person who some refer to as The First Lady of Star Trek has passed. She appeared in every incarnation of Star Trek up to Enterprise. From Number One in the pilot to Nurse Chapel in the original series. From Lwaxana Troi in both TNG & DS9 to the computer on all shows that had a computer voice. She wrangled part of her husband's ashes to go up on the space shuttle and be released and brought us Earth:Final Conflict & Andromeda. It's unsure whether she finished the VO's for the new movie, but I'm sure her voice will appear and the movie will probably be dedicated to her for "carrying the torch."

Majel Barrett Roddenberry was 76.

Holiday Knights

How big of a nerd are you if this fills you with holiday spirit and fond memories of your youth? Okay, maybe the question is, how jacked up was your childhood if this is one of the fond memories of your youth? And yes, Poison Ivy has always been my favourite Batman villian and Bruce Timm captured her to a T in Batman: The Animated Series.

Save the Planet - Recycle Your Vibrator!

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Bettie Page 1923-2008

The woman who basically sealed the fact that beautiful women to me had to have: child bearing hips, lovely breasts (over a B cup) & and a wicked smile, has died.
Discovered at too early an age, I'll bet money that this woman did more to define my ideal of beauty then anyone else did (Freud be damned). I was a sucker for any woman who was petite, curvy & not afraid to express herself. The best obit I've found was written by the Guardian.
Bettie Page is gone, and the world's a little less interesting because of it.