"Los Angeles, CA –BCI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, has obtained DVD rights to the original 1983 animated series “Dungeons & Dragons.” The complete series, featuring all 27 episodes in a collector’s four-disc boxed set, will be released under BCI’s Ink & Paint brand on November 7th at a suggested retail price of $49.98. The announcement was made today by Jeff Hayne, Director of Acquisitions, BCI.
“As we continue to build our catalog of classic animated series from the ‘70s and ‘80s, the industry is taking note of the success of these titles,” said Hayne. “We’re fortunate to have this unique opportunity to market ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ to the same audience that has been enjoying our most recent animated programming.”
“Dungeons & Dragons” tells the tale of six kids who, after riding the Dungeons & Dragons rollercoaster, mysteriously get sucked into its fantasy world. Once there, the kids are met with a variety of monsters and entities, but to their delight, they are also greeted by the mysterious Dungeon Master, who gives each of them a magical item to use to defend themselves against the evil beings." (more) Animation Nation Bulletin Board: Dungeons & Dragons coming to DVD Nov 7 '06
Brothers of The Head - Conjoined twins punk rockers (Apple Trailer)
"Brothers of the Head is the feverish, mind-bending odyssey of conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe who were plucked from obscurity by a 1970s music promoter and groomed into a boy band. Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry and a dark inner life, the twins embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing Punk Rock."
www.filmfocus.nl has posted the trailer for Paul Verhoeven's new film.
Know ye that the entirety of this trailer is in Dutch. Although, it is possible to decipher a graphic that exalts the film as being "from the director of SOLDIER OF ORANGE and BASIC INSTINCT".
Sigh.
At least they didn't choose SHOWGIRLS.
The movie's called ZWARTBOEK (which means BLACKBOOK in Dutch). It's set in World War II and is about a German Jewish girl who joins the resistance in Holland to find those responsible for the betrayal/murder of her family.
The film represents something of a "return to roots" for Verhoeven, who American audiences may best remember for ultra-violent, super-sexy little ditties like STARSHIP TROOPERS, ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, HOLLOW MAN, and BASIC INSTINCT (as mentioned above).
Love him or hate him, the biz always seemed edgy and interesting when he was around; it'll be fascinating to see if his future brings him back to the American mainstream once more. And, if it happens, I wonder how audiences would react given the current social/political climate?
At swinging convention, sex is on everyone's mind - Yahoo! News
"Last night it was really special," said Rhodes, who is divorced and makes a living giving massages in the Midwestern state of Iowa. "There was a couple from Mexico, a couple from Virginia and a couple from Ireland, from Australia."
"I like to participate in life as much as possible," she said with a broad smile.
Rhodes was among some 3,000 people gathered Saturday at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas for the annual Lifestyles conference, a five-day, $700-per-couple event that offers a mix of seminars, socializing and sex.
Early Saturday, Rhodes was back for more, joining the action in a suite where more than a dozen couples were having sex. (more at link)
"DON'T joke about women, donkeys and bestiality if you expect Joel Siegel to watch your movie. That's what director Kevin Smith found out when the pun-loving 'Good Morning America' film critic stormed out of a press screening of Smith's 'Clerks II,' which opens Friday - an act that's sparked a vicious war of words between the two.
'Time to go!' roared Siegel to his fellow critics. 'First movie I've walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!' His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.
In the scene that sent Siegel to the exit, the characters graphically discuss hiring a woman to perform sexual favors on a donkey. Siegel told Page Six: 'It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive . . . I wasn't ready for this kind of smut . . . I hope he doesn't make any more movies.'
An apoplectic Smith fired back on his MySpace blog: 'Getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed-critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay. For 'Pirates 2,' he made us all titter with 'Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun' . . . He made us squeal with delight when he wrote, 'Wheelie Good Time for 'Cars.' ' I mean, Fozzy [bleeping] Bear laughs at this guy.'" (more) CRITIC FLEES 'SMUT' SCREENING - New York Post Online Edition: Gossip
Darth Vader is a picking and a grinning - Star Wars on a banjo - bestofyoutube.com
This banjo theme is guaranteed to stop redneck nerds in their geeky tracks.
Since I have been scouring Youtube for the best videos lately, I decided I would start contributing some of my own. Using my Logitech webcam, I recorded the following video this evening for your listening and viewing pleasure. When I was in The Second String Bluegrass Band, we used to play this tune when the crowds were rowdy. Have a look-see.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88.
Spillane's death was confirmed by Brad Stephens of Goldfinch Funeral Home in his hometown of Murrells Inlet. Details about his death were not immediately available.
After starting out in comic books Spillane wrote his first Mike Hammer novel, "I, the Jury," in 1946. Twelve more followed, with sales topping 100 million. Notable titles included "The Killing Man," "The Girl Hunters" and "One Lonely Night." (more)
Mideast crisis drives Bush to colorful language - Yahoo! News
"'I think Condi (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) is going to go pretty soon,' Bush said.
Blair replied: 'Right, that's all that matters, it will take some time to get that together.'
The two leaders also referred to an offer by Blair to help. Blair said Rice has 'got to succeed' if she goes out to the region.
Bush replied: 'What they need to do it to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit.' Shortly afterwards Blair noticed the microphone and hastily switched it off, but not before the recording had reached news media." Mideast crisis drives Bush to colorful language - Yahoo! News
This is a multi chapter project on Ebay. I wanted to show it to people. The money made from the sales go to the making of a documentary about The suicide of a transgendered teen in Rockdale. But I'm not putting this up to solicit. I think the story is worth looking at. This first item is expired anyways
This is a multi chapter project on Ebay. I wanted to show it to people. The money made from the sales go to the making of a documentary about The suicide of a transgendered teen in Rockdale. But I'm not putting this up to solicit. I think the story is worth looking at. This first item is expired anyways
Bush fails to comfort crying baby - Get me out of here! | the Daily Mail
At least he didn't blow raspberries on the kid's stomach. (Yeah, I'm talking about your, Putin...)
"Despite being closely vetted by both the U.S. secret service and German intelligence agents, the startled infant voiced a noisy protest as it was handed to George Bush.
Unable to placate the wailing child - despite all his skills of diplomacy - President Bush was forced to hand it back to its waiting mother." (more) Get me out of here! | the Daily Mail
Standby Mode to Be Outlawed in the U.K. @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech
"Basically in an effort to save energy, the British government is planning to outlaw the standby mode in most home and office electronics - arguing that they eat up about 8% of all energy costs each year. This means that every TV set, home computer, office printer, and so on will not longer have a standby mode but will only offer on and off." (more) Standby Mode to Be Outlawed in the U.K. @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech
"UK magazine distributors are being urged not to import copies of an Italian magazine featuring a photograph of Princess Diana as she lay dying.
British newspapers have condemned Italian magazine Chi's publication of the photo, which was taken at the scene of her car crash in 1997." (more) BBC NEWS | UK | Boycott 'vile' Diana photo call
"Violet advises smart girls to keep the remote control handy, calling it 'the only really required item for porn viewing' and urging readers to fast-forward through anything offensive, boring or lame. I found my remote, then placed a towel, lube and my Je Joue within reach and pressed Play on Zuma: Tales of a Sexual Gladiator." (more) Wired News: Smart Girls Need Smart Porn
"On behalf of the faculty and students at Gelfling College, I welcome you to our new website. Gelfling College houses a small collective of world-renowned scholars devoted to preserving the history and folklore of Gelflings.
My name is Zeytoc and I'm a Professor of Archeology. For the past 20 years I've researched the history of our Gelfling ancestors dating as far back as The Great Conjunction Prime; the event that brought the first urSkeks to our world." (lol more) Welcome To Gelfling College
Christian comic books: The Messiah is the message (aka 'Jesus: You're soaking in it/him')
MINNETONKA, Minn. — Zap! Pow! Amen!
Whether it’s fanciful tales of jewel-colored angels battling demons for a man’s soul or retellings of familiar stories from the Bible, Christian comic books are taking wing.
“Christians have the best stories to tell,” said Sherwin Schwartzrock, a Christian comic book artist and graphic designer. “The world is full of hurting people, with drug abuse and with all types of problems that we have as human beings. Jesus Christ is an answer.”
Creating comics is a delicate balance for Christian artists and writers using a medium sometimes viewed as frivolous or tawdry. But Schwartzrock says comics are like movies: They can spread an uplifting message as easily as an immoral one.
The number of Christian comic books has grown rapidly in the last few years. Some creators teamed up to form Community Comics LLC, a cooperative that links Christian comic-book artists and helps promote and distribute their books.
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - High metal prices drive coin smuggling
"MANILA (Reuters) - Smugglers have tried to ship out millions of older one-peso coins from the Philippines, not for their face value of less than 2 U.S. cents each but for the copper and nickel content as metals prices soar.
The central bank said customs authorities seized a 40-foot container at the weekend that was loaded with 2-3 million coins, weighing 12.2-18.3 tonnes, bound for Japan. Any export of coins worth more than 10,000 pesos must be declared." (more) Scotsman.com News - Latest News - High metal prices drive coin smuggling:
best of craigslist : ~~ DO NOT HANDLE JALAPENOS and THEN HAVE SEX ~@
We are spending Christmas at my girlfriends house.......Decide to make some food ~~ some spicy food. Spicy enough to put a punch in your mouth. Both of us handle spicy peppers in the process, with failure to wash hands afterwards. We then sit down to LOTR Two Towers, and she is stroking my... (rest at link lol)
"'My chart-toppin' teeth and gums do bleed from time to time and git infected. But I have found that Party Liquor is a damn good Anti-septic.' "
"I'm the KING OF COUNTRY WESTERN TROUBADOURS. I'm ever womern's dream and ever jealous husband's nightmare, and I don't take no mess," bellowed the cranky voice at the other end of the telephone. It was a Sunday afternoon in North Carolina.....the Lord's day. That alone would be reason enough to worry about disturbing the man known as Unknown Hinson. After all, the King is a religious man. All one has to do is look into his eyes to see it. If he wasn't in church, he'd most certainly be sleeping in during the day and getting a well-deserved rest from the demands of his busy schedule. Aside from the fact that he has been charged with vampirism in his past.....an accusation he vehemently denies.....Unknown Hinson isn't exactly fond of most people's waking hours. He is first and foremost a musician. We all know about musicians and the hours they keep."
WoW Detox - What brings you away from World of Warcraft
"2255. WoW is like a Pie eating contest where the grand prize is more pie. In the end you're fat and everyone else thinks you're crazy because you've wasted your time learning a useless skill. Playing video games will not make you any happier, richer, smarter or better looking. - former addict"
Researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with foreign accent syndrome have suffered damage to areas of the brain that affect speech.
The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even though the sufferer has limited exposure to that accent. The syndrome was first identified during the Second World War when a Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel damage to her brain. She developed a German accent, which led to her being ostracised by her community.
(06-19) 04:00 PDT Washington -- SOMETIMES, very important elections receive very little attention.
When the Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Frank Page as the group's new president at their meeting last week in Greensboro, N.C., the news appeared on the back pages of most secular newspapers -- or it didn't appear at all.
But Page's upset victory could be very significant, both to the nation's religious life and to politics. He defeated candidates supported by the convention's staunchly conservative establishment that has dominated the organization since the mid-1980s. His triumph is one of many signs that new breezes are blowing through the broader evangelical Christian world.
No, this is not some liberal victory. Indeed, the Baptist Press reported Page as going out of his way to tell reporters that he was not elected "to somehow undo the conservative resurgence" in the convention. But he also signaled that the spirit he hopes to embody is quite different from that of the angry, right-wing, politicized preacher who has been a stock figure in American life for more than two decades.
"I believe in the word of God," Page said. "I'm just not mad about it." (more)
Tolkien - the New Shadow - His sequel to The Lord of the Rings
"Tolkien started his sequel to The Lord of the Rings a number of times but never got very far. The links below are scanned images of the pages of the book.
The story begins one hundred and five years after the fall of the Dark Tower and is set in Gondor. Tolkien wrote about the story:
'I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the downfall of Sauron, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace and justice and prosperity would become discontented and restless - while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors - like Denethor or worse. I found that even so there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow - but it would be just that. Not worth doing.' " Tolkien - the New Shadow
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was a Vicar in the Church of England in Devon, an archaeologist, folklorist, historian and a prolific author. Baring-Gould was also a bit eccentric. He reputedly taught classes with a pet bat on his shoulder. He is best known for writing the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.
This book is one of the most cited references about werewolves. The Book of the Were-Wolf takes a rationalistic approach to the subject.
The book starts off with a straightforward academic review of the literature of shape-shifting; however, starting with Chapter XI, the narrative takes a strange turn into sensationalistic 'true crime' case-studies of cannibals, grave desecrators, and blood fetishists, which have a tenuous connection with lycanthropy. This includes an extended treatment of the case of Giles de Rais, the notorious associate of Joan of Arc, who was convicted and executed for necrosadistic crimes. Margaret Murray had a controversial theory about this subject.
"This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries."Online Etymology Dictionary
To do so, the ants need to judge directions and distances when travelling over flat, sandy terrain without landmarks. Scent trails used by other species won't work because the odours fade in the hot desert."
