A delectably funny, bad-ass cop duo +
Murder and gratuitous violence of a particularly gruesome nature +
A conspiracy that engulfs an entire small British country town +
High speed car chases +
British accents +
Old ladies with guns =
The ultimate parody and statement on the cop-action genre
Go see Hot Fuzz in a theater near you. Immediately.
[[WARNING! THIS COLUMN… ah, who am I kidding, everything here is from books published months ago.]]
As it says above, this column is all old stuff, it’s all the nits I gathered from the books I read back in January. Only one nit, the first one, is from February, because I only noticed it (or was told to notice it) last week. I was going to include it in my column with the April nits, but since this is getting posted before, here it goes.
As you can see, I called the previous post “RETRO NITPICKING”, because it’s a “reprint” of one of my old columns. This time, however, since it’s all new material, but from books released months ago, gets labeled “BACKLOG NITPICKING”. Oh, yes, I’m totally swiping this from KODT’s “RETRO KODT” strips…
I haven’t finish reading all the books from last Wednesday, so I haven’t finished writing the April column. I have, however, written up every nit from the first three weeks of the month, so I guess I should have the next post up by Monday or Tuesday next week.
For those of you who live in the Chicago area, you should attend the Shots in the Dark Launch Party tomorrow, April 28th! For more details on the location and what’s happening when, click here!
With the Shotgun relaunch and after just coming off Wrestlemania, we thought it would be a great idea to bring all the wrestling minds on the site together, knock each other’s heads in, and come up with our PPV predictions for this Sunday’s WWE Backlash in Atlanta, GA. Starring in this prognostication of sports entertainment are myself, Lyrical Lounge editor and lifelong Hulkamaniac Jonathan Birdsong, fellow wrestling contributor Corey Henson, and reviewer and former booker for World 1 South AWA Steven Ekstrom.
The Lyrical Lounge gets an exclusive peek into the minds and personalities that represent Animate Objects, a crew that sets out to call attention to questioning accepted social norms of work (music), love and life. Their name and music is an active social commentary, and Angelica LeMinh gets to the sum of their hearts:
Chicago, IL (April 17, 2007) - The April 28th episode of Shots in the Dark will be recorded at the Shots in the Dark Launch Party at Hero Headquarters! The episode will include the usual geek news, as well as interviews with Tim Demeter, Mike Norton, and Skottie Young. You can participate in this week’s show just by attending the party and saying hi! The party will be from 10am - 9pm on Saturday, April 28th at Hero Headquarters, 1530 W. Lake Cook Rd. in Wheeling, IL.
Other activities at the launch party include gaming of many different kinds including Heroclix, raffles and auctions of signed goods from Brian K. Vaughan, Robert Richardson, Sean McKeever, Eric Wight, and Geoff Johns, as well as original sketches and pages by creators such as Phil Hester and Ande Parks. Half of the proceeds from the auctions and raffles, as well as 100% of the proceeds from any sketches done at the event will be donated to the Hero Initiative ( www.heroinitiative.org). The Shots in the Dark launch party also kicks off the Grand Re-Opening Week of Hero Headquarters which will culminate in their own celebration on May 5th!
Don’t forget there are now THREE great Shots in the Dark episodes available for download on the Shots in the Dark website, including the gang’s interview with comics legend Jeph Loeb!
NOTE: Here’s the second column I did; originally published in issue #550 of the CBEM (11/18/05). It contains my favorite nit since I started doing the column, the often-cited “THE INCREDIBLE COLOR-CHANGING CAPE”, by our friend Jeromy Cox (who’s now been replaced as most nitpicked colorist by Moose Bauman); as well as the first examples of the Kents deaging horror, and my first rants about Decimation.
I’ve already writen up the nits from the first three weeks of April; I debated posting them now; but I’d rather post all of the month’s nits together, probably on Friday, after I’ve read this week’s comics. So, to give you something to chew on, I decided to post one more of the old columns… I’ll probably do this once per month; until I run out of them; and also, I might do shorter columns with 4-6 nits; with older stuff that I read every once in a while, and stuff from 2005-2006, and January/February 2007.
This episode was fairly one note. The focus was primarily on all things Lem. There are a few other beats, but they’re pretty shallow hits.
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Whatever Happened to The 5-Footaz?
Review by Angelica LeMinh
The more things change, the more things stay the same. Warren G will always be a dope beatmaker, but he never was the strongest lyricist. This effort is ambitious and scattered as Mister Griffin could’ve benefited from the advice of an editing consultant. The sheer number of tracks on this album (18 mostly full lengths, there are no Wyclef style interludes here) is enough to floor the average conditioned listener with ADD tendencies.
He tries to tackle some tough issues like war for oil and relationships but overshadows himself with the same old “weed and hos” talk (it doesn’t even seem like he believes it anymore) and allusions that he makes to his own work, “I’m still Warren G, it’s time to regulate” and “this DJ be Warren G”. There just comes a point when it’s grasping at straws when artists have to remind us of why we love them and not the other way around.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Time Warner is doing a dandy job fucking up Wonder Woman. The ongoing series is an ongoing train wreck, and plenty of readers agree. It’s a miracle that new readers exist.
I don’t know if we’re EVER gonna get a decent motion picture.
Seems like the only one done right by Time Warner in 2007 so far is Lynda Carter, everyone’s favorite Amazon, appearing in Smallville.
Chicago baseball prevented me from seeing it, but I heard it was pretty sweet.
Hopefully 2008 shapes up better than 2007.
How ironic that he’s wearing “prison jumpsuit orange” in that picture…
Here’s the coverage I promised last week on the Disco Inferno fiasco. Also, check out my WWE News and Notes from last week.
Stay tuned for the Rasslin’ Ring Roundtable PPV Preview later this week. Steven Eks, Jonathan Birdsong, Corey Henson, and I will go for the gusto and preview WWE Backlash this Sunday on pay-per-view. Let’s hope we can work in a joke about Sid Vicious stabbing Arn Anderson with a pair of scissors in there somewhere.
I came late to being a fight fan. I grew up with a vague awareness of boxing champs as they floated through the collective consciousness–Marvelous Marvin Hagler was huge, and a local boy, when I was a kid in Massachusetts. I was never terribly interested. I watched football and hockey and defended the hockey guys against the girls who complained that they had no teeth and broken noses.
In college, a hockey-loving boyfriend turned me on to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. We would drink red wine in his French Quarter apartment and watch early UFC tapes, rooting for tattooed brawlers like Tank Abbott. Some of those old UFC fights were little more than hockey fights, sans skates.
It’s that time again! A brand spankin new episode of Shots in the Dark is up and ready for your consumption! Find the answers to those burning questions*:
1) What is the meaning of life?
2) How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
3) Why ask why?
Get these answers, plus all the geek news, comic and manga reviews, and even a tech Geek Out! from yours truly, RIGHT HERE!
Plus, check out The Viceroy’s second installment of his Game Developer Diary! He gives us some great insight into the process of actually making a video game from start to finish!
Then head to the forums and tell us what you think, and what YOU want to hear on upcoming shows! Stay tuned to the SitD Blog for a 4 part series covering the burgeoning field of Nerdcore Hip-hop throughout this week, as well!
*None of these questions are actually answered on the show. The last one is just Drink Bud Dry, though. So there ya go. 1 outta 3 ain’t bad.
Before I begin, I need to mention that our good friends over at Simon & Schuster have a contest going on over at simonsays.com. Click the link and check it out. 10 winners get signed copies of this book. The grand prize winner gets a phone call from the Mickster himself. Enter by May 13.
You get the sense from reading Mick Foley’s latest novel The Hardcore Diaries that this might be his swan song in both literature and sports entertainment. Unlike his past nonfiction books that were either autobiographical (Have a Nice Day) or opinionated (Foley Is Good), this book is kind of like a concept album. Foley says that the central idea of his book is to show behind the scenes how a wrestling storyline plays out from the pitch to the final product. The undercurrent is that Mick is making a simultaneous comeback in both the literary and sports entertainment worlds and trying to regain his passion for each in the process. Unfortunately, you don’t really see that passion, and the effect is noticeable.
