Sad Links

Breaking: All the Marvel Now (2106) leaks and no more X-men? A few years ago Marvel discovered they could sell more comics by constantly shuffling their line-up and rebooting everything once every two years. Personally I don't see it as a very sound long term strategy but I understand why they do it. Are you more likely to pick up issue #248 of Iron Man off the shelf or #1 of The Invincible Iron Man, or International Iron Man or whatever it is they're calling the main Iron Man book these days.

I think what's really taken people off guard here is that Marvel had its solicitations for October leaked and there's zero X-Men titles on it. Mutants haven't gone away completely (Deadpool still gets two books) but there's nothing here with X-Men on the cover. Considering how popular the X-Men were when I grew up that seems amazing. I don't get what Disney and Marvel are really trying to accomplish here? Do they think Fox is quaking in their boots because Marvel won't publish an X-Men book? Fox barely even knows comics exist. All the execs at Fox probably think that they publish the X-Men book because they own the movie rights. This is the weakest strong arm technique I've ever seen.

A Cosplayer Is Running For Political Office. This is kind of interesting I guess. Cara Nicole Trujillo, a cosplayer from Arizona, is officially running for the Arizona Legislature as a Green Party candidate. Personally I have zero problem voting for a cosplayer but even though she's running as a Green Party candidate she says she's "pro limited government". I think I'm old enough that I understand what that means. Tax cuts for the rich, like Tony Stark.

A Gallery of Retro Video Game Ads. Well there's an ad you couldn't get away with these days. Some of the ads in this gallery are really something. I guess back in the 90s and early 2000's, it was too much to expect for video game companies to hire actual qualified advertising agencies to give them a hand.

Canadians Are Creating Their Own ‘Sad Pokemon Go’ Since They’ve Been Left Out Of The Fun.Since Pokemon Go isn't available on Windows Phone I'm going to do the same thing. I'm just going to wander around outside with a stuffed Jigglypuff, throwing tennis balls at things.

Kendra Wilkinson - Lost in Space

I don't know what compels me to post awful music videos like this, but here we are, at Kendra Wilkinson's "tribute" to Lost in Space. First of all, how is Kendra Wilkinson still a thing, Secondly why not Holly she was way better looking. Also back to First of all, how is Kendra Wilkinson still a thing?

The Floppotron: Smells Like Nerd Spirit

I've seen music performed on disc drives before but I haven't seen anything quite like the Floppotron. 64 individual floppy drives, 8 hard drives and 2 flat bed scanners. It almost sounds like real music, not some horrific science experiment gone wrong begging to be killed.

BTW, I had a rad birthday. turning 40 is still complete garbage and should be against the law but I had a super cool birthday full of family and friends anda new Nintendo Wii U. More on that later... maybe much later. Work is insane right now. I've received over 130 e-mails just today and that's not counting how far I am behind for taking Thursday and Friday off. I probably shouldn't even be writing this right now, I'm just falling further and further behind.. Help me Mario Kart 8!!!!

P Stew's Cowboy Classics

Between this and that horrible MILF $ video I posted yesterday I'm pretty sure the internet is broken. Someone needs to check the tubes, I think they're clogged.

Fergie - M.I.L.F. $

Wow... this is just... wow. I can't even.

It's 2016 and Fergie is pouring milk all over her boobs, dancing with Kim Kardashian and completely ripping of Kelis's Milkshake song. At this point I think we kind of deserve Trump as president. Its one step closer to Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho and that can't be a bad thing right? I love drinking Brawndo, it's the thirst mutilator.


Also, Moms I'd Like to Follow? TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Fox Don't Care

This last weekend I finally saw X-Men: Apocalypse (thanks Martin!). It wasn't the worst movie in the world but it wasn't exactly what I would call "good". I thought the plot was actually pretty interesting but the dialogue was so ham fisted at times it almost felt like it was a parody of an action film. I don't think we'll ever know if Sophie Turner was outright bad in it or if she was just sabotaged by the schlockiest dialogue this side of a Star Wars Prequel.

One of the things that stood out the most to me while watching it is that outside of the 4 or 5 main stars Fox really doesn't care anything about the X-Men's supporting cast. Take Angel, a founding member of the X-Men known for his playboy disposition and heroic nature. In this he's a drunken pit fighter. Psylocke, long time X-Man and sister of Captain Britain, is hired muscle, a horseman of Apocalypse and one of like two characters that doesn't have a redemption story. Caliban, the Morlock who is so scared of his own shadow he actually makes a deal with Apocalypse so he can have actual powers that matter, is portrayed as some sort of underground power broker.
Those are the major details, the minor stuff like Havok being Cyclops's older brother instead of younger I can let slide. It's just weird that for like 6 films now Fox (and lets face it here it's mostly Bryan Singer) is happy to just shoehorn any X-Man into any role. Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man is a bad guy, sure why not? Mystique is the X-Men's leader and new trainer instead of assassin and adversary?

Also, Charles sure is forgiving of Magneto for killing all those people he kills in every movie.

I think this is one of the reason fans were so quick to embrace Deadpool. They actually made Colossus Russian. Who'd have thunk it?
Don't get me wrong, Deadpool was a hit because it was a good movie not because it was a slave to the source material. The thing is Deadpool showed you can do both. Hell, every Marvel Studios movie has shown you can do both. Sure they change a lot of the minor details around but in the end Iron Man and Captain America are Avengers, Vision was created by Ultron, Scott Lang is a reformed criminal, etc. These characters have been around for decades now. You can streamline their origins and backgrounds for a film while still keeping what makes them unique and interesting. Marvel's made a billion dollars doing it.

I'm not advocating Fox give up the movie rights to the X-Men (even though that would be great) but maybe it's time to give the franchise to someone other than Bryan Singer. X-Men and X-2 were great movies, he's done as much as he can do right about now. Time to get someone in their with a vision for a simpler less confusing X-Men universe that knows why these characters have been so popular for so long. Maybe see what that Deadpool guy is doing for the next 10 years.

Will a Walmart Huffy survive a Downhill Mountain Bike Trail?

Short answer nope. Not at all. I mean yes, technically the bike made it down the hill but after the breaks fail, the shocks start leaking oil and the handlebars are bent you probably won't be making a second run. Kudos to this dude for not dying.

LEGO Civil War: Ant-Man vs. Iron Man

When does Captain America: Civil War come out on Blu-Ray. I want to see that movie again but I think it's already out of theaters. Remember when movies would be in theaters for forever. I remember seeing Jurassic Park in the theater in the summer of 94, a full year after it was released. Now a days movies are out of the theater in like a month and they're at Redbox in two. I think I'm already out of luck if I want to see X-Men Apocalypse for my birthday. Which is in a week, ugh.

This birthday is hitting me hard. Not just because I turn 40 but because I haven't been very happy lately. I miss all my friends, I'm in a bunch of physical pain like all the time, my kids are growing up WAY too fast, work is for suckers... I'd like to do some big blow out thing but I have zero energy to put into it and at this point it's too late. At least this year I was smart enough that I took the day off of work, I think I worked on my birthday last year and it was balls. You should never have to work on your birthday, it should be law. Someone get Obama on that. That would be a fantastic legacy.

I ordered a new power supply for my computer (the el cheapo one I bought 6 months ago has a bearing out and it sounds like a small lawnmower is powering my pc), it's supposed to arrive the day before my birthday. Maybe I'll just spend my birthday working on my PC, that's kind of fun. Does Baskin & Robbins still give you a free cone on your birthday?

Oh yeah, here's some Lego video that's kinda cool looking. I really like the little cap they gave Lego Black Panther for his ears.