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Starting to feel the mutant ooze

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Feeling the smooth coat of radioactive ooze wash over the face, it's a startling read to see the quick entries thus far swimming in for the Ninja Turtles giveaway.

Only eight hours after the notice of the start and the speed is picking up a steady pace. Interesting to note that there are a few people who don't sleep between the hours of 01:30 and 06:00 or if they were sleeping, know how to program their bodies to sleep-email and enter competitions.

That's an impressive skill if ever there was one for a comper. To never end with the onslaught of emails and form entries for the multitude of competitions and giveaways that exist.

Don't know what that would do for the entry:win ratio. Can't be good as there's always an eventual petering out and plateau on the horizon.

And that's from experience.

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Posted by Soon on Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tagged: competitions giveaways ninja-turtles zombies gambling

 

Main Hoon Na

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Bleary fusion of Sunday night crossing over and into the state that appears after chewing on disgust. However, anything in a state of wondrous angst finds a way out after watching a good Bollywood movie.

And when it's Main Hoon Na as part of the "Hooray For Bollywood" season at SBS, it's just a glorious mix of action, comedy, drama, romance, dance and song that picks the brain right up from the slumber.

The Matrix and Mission: Impossible 2 are featured as heavy riffs with the style of action—and even the not so really action packed scenes—picking up and wringing everything they can from these two films in terms of dirty faced style. Nobody hides this fact of overt homage either, referenced right in the dialogue.

Extended uses of bullet-time get bawdier with each play and the fact that it looks so serious is obscenely fantastic. Watching it, there's the thought that it can't possibly better itself. And then they throw in a song and dance number and that suspicion is dragged knuckle deep through a bed of nails.

Final fight scene features the villain, who looks a lot like Dominic Purcell, catching the first of Major Ram in his neck. Now, if that isn't some kind of skill in arm-to-arm combat worth admiring, what is?

Hilarious and heart-felt with all sorts of issues, watching clean subtitles as they swear their heads off only adds to the charm.

Clearly the best Bollywood movie ever in existence.

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Posted by Soon on Monday, March 19, 2007

Tagged: bollywood the-matrix mission-impossible film action comedy romance

 

Spinning like a Catherine wheel

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Skipping the reference to Walt Whitman and jumping right into the wet of scattered scales.

About a week after the fallout and boy, the flushing rush of media hype and spoiler dams breaking at the seams was/is intense. All for Captain America #25, a particularly interesting issue it seems. Well, for those that managed to actually read it and not have it read out for them.

do you guys have captain america #25 available to purchase if so what is the price?


Well, not at the moment. Plum suckered dry by the afternoon of last week when it hit out on the first round. Madness, and when was the last time an issue at #25 managed to clear before the doors were closed for the day? Can't remember.

Iron Man wakes up to hear the latest news on Captain America

Shocking really, at the speed of its legs. Hopefully, in the next week or so, if there are any left at Diamond, the stock will rise up a little for those still hanging on to own a copy to read themselves.

Speculators beware, them hangnails really do drag down the boat of rats.

Something like what happened to Captain America manages to bring out people not otherwise seen in the realm.

Because of today's terrible tragedy, I'm going to extend the free offer of my Accelerated Battlefield Combatives hand-to-hand combat learning system until my friend is put to rest.


Takes a mighty clued-in spammer to tie in the events of a Marvel Comic to their shady product.

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Posted by Soon on Friday, March 16, 2007

Tagged: captain-america civil-war photos avengers

 

Steak, butter and Buffy

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Sitting there with a mouthful of meat and the chewing wasn't helping any. Fifty and gone, working it works out the juices and with that, a dry sad clump of meat hangs and sits on the tongue, where's the stock? So that's the reason nobody in their right mind orders meats past medium.

March 15 and then half of the crew are off on the jet to lay down some of that Aussie brand of whatever it is Aussies brand in their existence. Certainly not cows, that's a pretty country non-specific kind of deal. What with the ranchers, the meat eaters and the wolves who bay at the door wanting that extra leg of Turkey Spam.

Joss Whedon brings back the Scoobies in Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 and picks up right where the last episode of the show left off. Never read the first run through Dark Horse back in the day. Wasn't pining for it as much as now, and wasn't that big of a fan of the other stories. But here, as the season 8 of the show as it could have been, there's the gun for juicing up the anticipation like staying around to watch it on television.

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Posted by Soon on Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Tagged: buffy whedonverse meat tv

 

The Notorious Bettie Page started here

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Bettie Page, bondage pin-up model for 1950s America and still to this day, an icon of the poster scene. A sweet young thing from Tennessee who moves up in the world through modelling with a risque beat.

Subject too to one of the latest giveaways through the site and released today in most cinemas, The Notorious Bettie Page, a film starring Gretchen Mol in the eponymous role.

Bettie Page was born in which Tennessee city?



Clearly the first port of call for any competition and giveaway is perhaps the steady truss of Wikipedia. According to the users' encyclopedia, Bettie Page was born in the town of Kingsport.

From the looks of the entries flying into the drop box over the past two weeks, that's what a lot of people took as gospel and the truth that doesn't lie.

However, from the Official site of Bettie Page, Nashville is where it all begins. Double backing this fact is the data sheet featured in Playboy.

Two against one, and the thinning of entries is easy.

Play the game, but learn to play it well.

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Posted by Soon on Thursday, March 8, 2007

Tagged: bettie-page film giveaways playboy

 

Stranger in the clearing

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One thing to note when sleeping on the desk of a corporate environment is that there inevitably will be the rustling of other peoples pants and dress skirts. Especially if the desk in cushion (HA!) is in the main thoroughfare. Best find that nook underneath the desk where the shadows lie.

March 8 and here in begins the count down to the final days of daylight savings. Or Daylight Savings. However it feels it needs to be addressed. As salient a point as it appears to be on the calendars of those who look forward to idiot kids in the streets playing extended hours. Enough.

Now, Strangers In Paradise #88, puts the series two away from the end of it all. Closing out the chapter of their lives that has gone on for so long. Haven't been reading it in the single issue form, merely picking it up as a spectacle. More of Moore is absorbed in the collected and pocket book editions. Such a tasty treat of human emotion that be.

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Posted by Soon on Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Tagged: strangers-in-paradise daylight-savings sleep

 

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