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None of these things would really generate a good post on their own (well, maybe they would if I wasn’t so lazy…), so here’s a little link dump to start your weekend off right:

Joss Whedon wants the Terminator franchise
This is a brilliant idea for a Halloween costume
If someone doesn’t make these for me right now, [...]

Here are a couple of seemingly unrelated news items from the past week…

Clinically Depressed Poodle Mauls Former French President Chirac
Raccoon bites off rapist’s penis

What’s going on???

You’re no doubt familiar with the popular Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup slogan, “two great tastes that taste great together.” And indeed, chocolate and peanut butter is one of the great flavor combinations of all time. My own personal version is dipping Ghiradelli Espresso Escape bars (60% cocoa bittersweet chocolate with espresso beans added) in all [...]

Found here via a Chuck Olsen Tweet.

I saw this at Gerry Canavan’s blog and thought I’d throw it out here. Comments have been dead here lately so add your results below…
Basically, you look at the list of films by the various famous directors and pick which film you think is the best from each director. We may all agree that these [...]

I quite liked the new Bond film. It’s a direct sequel to Casino Royale — so much so that if you haven’t seen the earlier film recently, you might want to bone up on it in order to understand the convoluted plot of QoS, which opens just minutes after the close of Royale. The filmmakers [...]

via Dear S

At Smoothie’s first bachelor party in 1993 or 1994, AlexCh rented a video that included one of the characters — a woman — asking her male companion the following question:
Amüsierst du dich, Huhnficker?
10 points to the first reader who correctly guesses the activity the man was engaged in at the time.

In four and a half years of blogging I have never been the recipient of one of these blog meme things — that is, until today.  Gahlord Dewald at Union Street Media tapped me for this.  It’s actually one of the better blog memes I’ve seen.  Usually they’re a series of goofy questions, like “If [...]

It’s Friday night, and before I get back to The Wire season five, I thought I’d mention that Dear S turned me onto this social network targeted at dorks: Hardcore Nerdity.  Join.  Make a profile.  Friend me.  I had the day off today and making that profile might actually be the most productive thing I [...]