This sucks.
Gezi the momma giraffe at the SF Zoo died today. She just gave birth to lil’ Babro in February. Not too sure what happened, but it sounds like an infection of some sort. This is actually making me very sad; Court, Kaitlin and I just saw her and the babies a month ago.
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TrackbackUPDATE: Videos have been pulled. *sigh* well I knew it couldn’t last.
It’ll probably be pulled by the end of the day before lunch; but here it is in two parts sneaked from Comic Con.
Wolverine! (No link. Seriously if you need a link for more info on Wolverine, then this post is of absolutely to interest to you. And you suck.)
Sabertooth!
Gambit!
Blob!
Please oh please oh please!
Comments rss TrackbackThere is so much wrong in this article, I don’t even know where to begin.
Emphasis all mine.
Via the Burlingame Daily News
Woman faces two felonies, up to two years in prison
A United Airlines mechanic accused of sneaking a loaded handgun into a secure area of San Francisco International Airport pleaded no contest Thursday to two felonies, meaning she will face no more than two years in prison.
Traci Timothy Bracken, 55, had been looking at as many as eight years in prison over two charges: a possession of an illegal weapon count stemming from the February incident at SFO and an assault charge following a fight at a Pacifica bar.
Bracken, who lives in Pacifica, allegedly brought a handgun into the United maintenance facility where she works. Police later searched Bracken’s home and found an illegal AR-15 assault rifle, according to prosecutors.
Airport security personnel allegedly found the handgun in her backpack. Security guards were looking for brass knuckles that Bracken had brought to work a few days earlier and used to punch a cardboard box, according to her defense attorney, Randall Knox.
“She was upset over the way a co-worker was treating her - making comments for being transgender, making fun of her and being mean and spiteful - and she was venting,” Know said in April.
At the time, Bracken was already facing the assault charge for allegedly attacking a parole officer with a knife last year in a Pacifica bar.
Prosecutors have downplayed the seriousness of the incident at SFO.
“We didn’t have an explosive situation by any stretch,” Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County’s chief deputy district attorney, said at the time.
Airport spokesman Mike McCarron said Bracken never had access to the airfield at SFO.
Yay! Pacifica! Keeping it real!…weird.
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Can Wahlberg atone for THE HAPPENING? I’m starting to get interested in this. This first poster mimics the box art of the original game perfectly
Trailer here.
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My ammo & firearms workstation is complete. Good old fashioned sheet steel with steel fixtures. The top is solid, about one inch thick. It was missing it’s bolts so I bolted it down with some 5/16 stainless bolts and nylock nuts and it’s just about bullet proof (fingers crossed I’ll never actually find that out). It hold all my tools and ammo. With a little fiddling it’ll probably hold all my cleaning supplies too, but I’m not sure about storing solvents and oil along with ammo… in fact no, that’s actually a bad idea. Nevermind.
Anyway it’s perfect for my needs right now. I’m so tickled by this thing that there are MORE PICTURES HERE!
Gun Nerds FTW!
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Iain Banks, my favorite author as of late, did a e-mail Q & A via his site a few weeks back and the result have been posted. I *really* need to pick up his latest Culture book.
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These fantastic photos are from a Flickr pool devoted to Ballardian imagery. According to the Collins English Dictionary, “Ballardian” is an adjective “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels & stories, esp. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes & the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.”
Via Boing Boing
Comments rss TrackbackSo the hype for the Watchmen movie is ramping up nicely, what with the release of the official trailer last week (and it looks amazing; please don’t fuck this up guys!) but what I really love right now is this Vargas style illo of Sally Jupiter done by James Jean.
At 1:32 into the Watchmen trailer, you can see a glimpse of an illustration I did for the movie. Alex McDowell asked me to create a Vargas-esque portrait of Sally Jupiter, played by Carla Gugino. It only appears for 1 second in the trailer, but the illustration is supposed to play a larger role in that particular scene.
Comments rss TrackbackUrban Ore on Saturday; man that place is cool. How cool is it? It has it’s own set on Flickr. I wish I was craftier and or more skilled to take advantage of all the stuff they have. If you’ve never been, it’s basically a housewares recycler; doors, bathroom fixtures, furniture, old tools, just stacks and stacks of it. Found a downright awesome old industrial steel cabinet unit with drawers and shelving; cleaned it up and viola! Ammo cabinet and gunsmithing station. I’m so happy with this thing I may post a picture. GUN NERD!
Court’s been jonesing for a studio space for, well forever, so we also looked for some storage stuff for her - she picked up a massive solid oak dining table at Goodwill that will perform brilliantly as a workspace. The top is kind of beat, but what the hell, it’s going to get paint spilled on it anyway. Wrestled that into the office and it fits nicely. I’m going to get rid of my full size desk and pick up a smaller leaner unit. Think I’ve found the one I want (Ikea, of course), now just have to figure out how to get rid of my desk.
Anyway.
We Watch Movies: The Dark Knight
This is not a happy movie. In Iron Man, there was this undercurrent of, I don’t know, comic geek optimism. I can’t describe it better than that. Same thing with The Incredible Hulk. You just knew things were going to turn out ok. The little Marvel Universe tie ins and references made me squeal like a schoolgirl getting pinched. (”We’re putting a team together.” Oh fuck yes you are!)
You don’t get that with The Dark Knight. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it. It’s an outstanding film. But it’s bleak. People die. In fact a lot of people die. Heath Ledger’s Joker is bat shit (yes I just did that) insane. And you believe it. You really believe that this guy is a freaking psychopath. There’s no nifty gadgets or goofy clown cars, he’s just a crazy guy in a freaky makeup and a dirty purple suit. When the cops search him in one scene, they say “Nothing in his pockets except knives and lint”.
It’s minimalist Joker. But it works and it works very well.
Bale is still awesome as Bats, but I have to admit, this time around, his “Batman voice” was starting to hurt my throat. Just sounds painful. And the Batcycle is over the top cool.
A nice touch is that he actually does some real live detective work in this one. Something that Batman Begins pretty much ignored.
Harvey Dent. Wow, Aaron Eckhart plays evil good. Did that make sense? Well he’s not really evil, just really pissed off. You would be too if you went through what he did. They way they developed the Two Face character is brilliant. Harvey wants to save Gotham and he’s willing to, eventually, do anything, including taking the law into his own hands, to save it. And they actually only say the name “Two Face” once. Barely once.
Ok enough.
Oh, and don’t get the large soda, this is a long movie.
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