War Begins

Listen to this awesome, so-epic-it-cannot-be-any-more-epic-er orchestrated piece. It's called "War Begins" and once you hear it you will want to run outside, climb a hilltop and assemble an army to battle global terrorism.



What a great, powerful piece of music that is, by a man named Brian Tyler. I think it was originally scored for a Dune mini-series but I could be wrong. I do know that a portion of it was used in one of the trailers for J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek. It's what I was hoping for when they were scoring the actual film, but what we ended up with (Michael Giacchino) was largely forgettable. Don't get me wrong, I think the Trek score had its moments but by and large they paled in comparison to this mighty piece of work.

Thanks to Eric for the link!

Want To Have Your Mind Blown? Watch These Seven Minutes And Fifteen Seconds Of Carl Sagan

In this clip, Carl Sagan (R.I.P.) talks about other dimensions, seeing visitors from other dimensions and... well... things like that. And he talks about it as cavalierly as you or I might discuss a movie about talking robots.

Chances are, if you're like me, you are pretty much clueless when it comes to the full comprehension of this kind of stuff. Regardless, I think it's fascinating...

Have Even More Fun Hitting Stuff With These Light-Up Drumsticks

I thought of this idea about six years ago but obviously I'm still working for the man and scraping nickels and dimes just to make ends meet, so you can see I am not the inventor of these cool drumsticks. F#%* no, I'm not bitter.

So. These suckers light up every time they hit an object, say cymbals or whatnot. Check 'em out, they're only $15 a pair plus shipping which is not unreasonable considering a decent pair of wood sticks can set you back about eight bucks.

Obama Palooza

In my effort to track down the artist/source of "Awesome," (a.k.a. the bizarre Obama painting) I tripped over several other images. I thought I would share.

The Most FUN Wedding Entrance In The History Of Weddings

My wife and I are going to renew our vows in the church next year. This is what I would love to do. You think she'll go for it?

I can't think of a better way to celebrate something so joyous!

PS, this actually choked me up a little. Don't tell anyone.

Dad Builds AT-AT Bunk Bed For His Kid, Is Probably The Greatest Dad Ever

Can you deny it?

Thanks to Geekologie

SDCC Report: Tron Legacy P.R. Goes All-Out

I am still awe-struck by this. Last night in San Diego, Disney pretty much pwn'ed James Cameron and his little Avatar with an amazingly geekified spectacle promoting Tron Legacy. You must — I repeat — you must watch these three clips:

The Unveiling

Inside Flynn's Arcade

Lightcycle, Anyone?

I worked in the video game industry for nearly five years and paid witness to dozens and dozens of awesome P.R. events, some of them just extraordinary in scope (at one point I should probably blog about some of them), but I have to say from a hype-building standpoint I'm not sure I've ever seen anything more awesome than the above. And I'm not even a big Tron fan. Yeah I owned Tron Deadly Discs on Intellivision (fun game actually) and I played my fair share of the coin-ops but that's about it.

Tron Deadly Discs

Tron Coin-Op

Disney recreated Flynn's Arcade complete with all of the games and even an air hockey table. They even programmed and assembled full-sized, fully-working Space Paranoids arcade machines for this... like the one seen in the original film! On top of that, Disney built a full-size lightcycle for god's sake! And they did it all to promote the sequel to a movie that — quite honestly, didn't perform all that well back in the day. If there were any questions, Disney is clearly serious about this franchise.

And yeah, before you say it, I agree that hype does not necessarily equal greatness (in most cases it does not), but you would have to concede Disney is really playing to the geek community here. And I think that's cool.

Cameron must be secretly dying inside right about now. I know I would be.

Thanks to Ain't It Cool News for the clips

Bizarre Obama Painting

Okay so this has to win some kind of WTF award or something. My buddy Eric sent it to me this morning. His description is quite apt:

"Obama riding a Yorkie shooting rabbits from his laser hand, with a large shirtless black man shooting a cat from his laser hands at butterflies with another black man on a banana phone behind them while they all fly in the blood splattered clouds amongst falling ducks and the Challenger explosion on the left… and the guy on the banana phone is BETWEEN Obama and the shirtless guy… it’s a midget!"

It's almost like a bizarro version of The NeverEnding Story. Except more psychotic. Like, 1,100 times more.


I have no idea who's behind this Obama masterpiece despite several search attempts online. I don't know what the name of it is either. No matter. From this day on, I will dub thee "Awesome."

Thanks to Eric and Dunkin

Friday FAILS

Since I've been very lazy with these the past several weeks, I'm going to try to redeem myself. Here's a who-oooole shit-load... and there's some great ones in there too! Enjoy!

Weather Man FAIL

Welcome Sign FAIL

Stop Smoking FAIL

Parenting FAIL

Google Maps FAIL

Wildlife Photography FAIL

Reading FAIL

Vehicle Delivery FAIL

OS FAIL

Advertising FAIL

Game Show Contestant FAIL

Parenting FAIL

Handlebar Replacement FAIL

Equal Pricing FAIL

Cross Country Ad FAIL

Promotional FAIL

Advice WIN

As always, special thanks to Fail Blog

Hot Chicks Dressing Up Like Superheroes

I am willing to bet that the majority of these girls are absolutely, certifiably bonkers. As in coo-coo for Co-Co Puffs. As in throw little rocks at your window at 2AM, "fatal attraction" crazy. But man they look really, really good. Most of them do, anyway.