The Venture Brothers Season Finale

But he was so young? Why? Why must you be so cruel? Its not fair man. Its just not fair! He had so little to live for!

Those adorable draugr

blockade_boy has started a weekly webcomic, Viking Zombie Boyfried Its up to its 3rd strip now. So go check it out. And for any of you other webcomics creator types out there, he's looking for advice on improving site design. Me, I can already tell he's going to need a better archive set-up...

Beowulf

1. Theres an old Knights of the Dinner Table set of strips where Sara is absent from the session and so she has Dave run her barbarian. And Dave, spotting the bonuses that class get to surprise foes when lightly encumbered has the character shed armor, gear and clothing to maximize that bonus. For some reason that comes to mind when watching the Beowulf Naked Ninja fight sequence...

2. All the ladies want a taste of the Beowulf...

3. I wouldn't have thought a major theme of the Beowulf story would be Sons Hate Their Absentee Dads, but there you go...

4. Really its an ok enough movie, lots of gore filled combats for those who enjoy that. Though I think it works better at further pushing the potential boundaries of computer animation than anything else...

Eastern Promises

A look at a Russian (or maybe their Ukranian, I'm not clear on that) Vor crime syndicate. With Viggo Mortensen as the lead, working again with David Cronenberg (the two did A History of Violence). The ending to this one works much better I think. Though the movie starts by pushing Naomi Watts forward as the lead, as a hospital midwife trying to find the family of an orphaned girl. She ends up very under-utilized though when the film really begins to focus more heavily on Mortensen's character...

Also Mortensen gets in a knife fight while sitting naked in a bath house...

Cronenberg: Ok Viggo, we're going to do a fight scene like in History

Viggo: Ok

Cronenberg: Except you'll be naked

Viggo: ...

Cronenberg: And thats when the knives come out!

Viggo: So a knife fight where I'm only armed with my wang?

Cronenberg: Yep

Viggo: Thats fine. My wang is both awesome and deadly...

A Thought In Passing

So, you think it means anything that of all the "regular" network channels the only two not airing the Democratic National Convention are The CW (who don't even HAVE a news division) and FOX? Probably doesn't mean anything that they have "Prison Break" instead of the convention. Maybe when the Republican National Convention comes up they'll air "24" instead?