I'm back from a 5 month hiatus in blogging. Not a self imposed thing, but time just kind of got away from me. I didn't retreat to facebook or anything. I don't think I'll ever join facebook. If I wanted to have a denim background for my Traveling Pants theme, I couldn't do that. And I've never been to Europe, so I couldn't put up a thousand pictures of my one of a kind unique experience.

But I do want to blog about Slurpee cups, and you can do that here just fine.

Summer starts with a meh with the indifferently anticipated turned highly controversial release of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. And 7-11 deemed this cash grab worthy enough for containing frozen treats.




Three in all. Choose between the titular hero, Wolverine. The fan favorite new entry to the series, Gambit. Or growling antagonist, Sabertooth. Now, as you all know, the movie was leaked online about a month ago to dismal reviews from internet geek pirates. So, Fox in their infinite wisdom, assured them it was unfinished and was about 20 minutes shorter than what they planned to release. Turns out it was pretty much the same.

Now, you all know I loved THE DARK KNIGHT. And that movie broke a lot of rules and succeeded anyway. Even in the wake of such an unconventional success, Fox still went into this movie all limp dick like. They didn't even have the balls to just title the movie WOLVERINE, afraid to miss all that potential box office from not having X-MEN in the title. TDK didn't even HAVE the word Batman in their title and look how smart we were! They didn't trust that the character can hold an entire picture by himself, and they shoe horned in as many mutants as they could in minimal roles that just leave you feeling teased. Imagine if the next Batman movie was called BATMAN TALES: THE DARK KNIGHT AGAIN. And Batman fought alongside all three Robins, Huntress, two Batgirls and a newly nuclear powered Alfred and you have a movie that Fox would love to get their hands on. Even if you added never before seen mutants (and some you have seen) into the movie, there's ways to make it work. This movie however, is a Steven Segal/Van Dam movie with super powers and a budget. The origin is nothing special and highly derivative of every "where did our rugged hero come from" story ever told.

But the movie has slurpee cups, so it gets a four out of four star review from this dude.

But yeah, the movie is a waste of potential. I love Wolverine too. Oh, well. There's other movies out there with cup like collectables coming soon this summer.



Starting this Monday, you can get STAR TREK glasses at your local participating Burger King. This is a really big event to recognize because it's rare for fast food joints to actually sell you glassware these days. I think SHREK 3 had glassware at McDonald's, but fuck SHREK 3. This is a big summer action movie. So be sure to visit BK this week. Get those little slider burger things. They're surely forged by the gods of ruining your health and delicious mischief.



Hey, you know who's a big fucking Trekkie nerd? Tony the Tiger. And he has convinced the big wigs at Kellogg's to let him and his sugar pushing buddies to promote the movie with cheap plastic toys in their cereal boxes. In the age of X-Box and sexting and readily available high quality streaming porn, I'd imagine finding a free toy in a cereal box isn't as thrilling as it used to be. But Kellogg's has not adapted with the times, so all we're going to get is cheap plastic crap.

The people at Cheez Itz, however, are a little ahead of the curve. They built an internet thingie where you can put your face on a character from the movie and make it talk via a text to speech program. Look here!


That's all for now. I'll post a bit more frequently, these days. Thanks for reading.

- D

PS Myspace has made it a lot harder to post pictures in the blog. Bleh.