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Flickr Friday: Neon Booze
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From our honeymoon cross country trip. This is at some bar on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
I occasionally update new photos (and old ones that I scan) on my Flickr account. In doing so, I get to revisit a lot of photos I’ve taken while travelling. Each Friday, I plan on posting a photo that I think is interesting. Maybe you’ll think so, too.
Working Out with DOCTOR WHO: The Green Death (3rd Doctor)
02 years ago
by Tom
in Television
Previously…
- Planet of the Spiders (3rd Doctor)
- The Time Warrior (3rd Doctor)
- The Claws of Axos (3rd Doctor)
- Terror of the Autons (3rd Doctor)
- Spearhead from Space (3rd Doctor)
- The Krotons (2nd Doctor)
- The Aztecs (1st Doctor)
Currently…
Environmentalists! Giant maggots! Evil super computers! All that and the Doctor FINALLY gets to Metebelis Three!
Here’s what iTunes had to say:
The Doctor finally gets to visit Metebelis Three. Jo and UNIT investigate a spate of strange deaths near Global Chemicals’ plant.
The Green Death is great fun and good science fiction. Here are my thoughts:
THE GOOD: Good-bye Jo Grant! This series marks the end of Miss Grant’s association with the Doctor. As cheese ball as her accelerated love affair and proposal was in the six episodes, it made for a touching good-bye sequence showing how fond the Doctor had become of her.
Departing sidekicks aside, this series also has other classic science fiction goodness – evil computers and giant insects. The BOSS computer (which stands for Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) is Tron’s MCP before Tron – driven by ego and wanting to rule the world. The giant maggots turned giant super insects are just fun.
THE BAD: The story drags a bit here and there. It could have probably been done in four episodes instead of six.
THE CHEESE: Classic animatronically run giant insects. Need I say more?
Working Out with DOCTOR WHO: The Claws of Axos (3rd Doctor)
42 years ago
by Tom
in Television
For those of you keeping track of what I’ve seen so far:
- Planet of the Spiders (3rd Doctor)
- The Time Warrior (3rd Doctor)
- Terror of the Autons (3rd Doctor)
- Spearhead from Space (3rd Doctor)
- The Krotons (2nd Doctor)
- The Aztecs (1st Doctor)
Today it is very common to watch British actors take on American roles with American accents (such as House with Hugh Laurie). Waaaaaaay back in the seventies, though, it’s downright painful to watch. In this series we’re introduced to a character by the name of Bill Filer.
Bill Filer is an American agent sent to look into the threat of The Master and other zany Time Lord related happenings that seem, for some reason, to be centered on England. The actor (Paul Grist) appears to be in pain whenever he stumbles through an American accent. He’s trying… hard. A little too hard and it becomes distracting after a while.
From iTunes:
Earth, the near future. Axos, a living spacecraft, lands and offers Earth a new energy source – Axonite. But what is Axos’s real agenda?
THE GOOD: The Master returns! In true super villain form, he gets captured by the Axos but then tries to cut a deal with them to help destroy Earth and (of course!) the Doctor. He would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t of been for those meddling kids.
THE BAD: Aside from the painful impersonations of United States government types (see above) this series really wasn’t all that bad.
THE CHEESE: The Axos. How cheesy? Check out the figure coolness you can buy now!
(Anyone who is suddenly overwhelmed to buy me one, they are online here. My shipping address is: Green Mustard Entertainment, PO Box 644437, Vero Beach, Florida 32964. Just putting that out there. LOL)
Review: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Following with my Star Wars analogy in from my last review (of The Girl Who Played with Fire) – this book is a “Return of the Jedi.” It’s a great book that, if I objectively graded it on its own, is a really just a good book. The greatness in it is derived from the first two that sell you so well on the characters that your interest in their actions carries along through the story.
Let’s face it: the star character of this book series (Lisbeth) spends most of her time confined to a hospital bed in this volume. It’s not exactly the most action packed of the three books. It is, though, engaging from the point of view of Lisbeth’s story. She has become so interesting in TGwtDT and TGWPwF that we want to know more about her as a character.
Stieg Larsson spent a lot of time in this book (and the previous) very obviously setting up for future stories: what became of Lisbeth’s sister? What about her other half brothers and their crime circles? There was so much more to tell – but this is a solid ending to a series that will have to do.
Alone, this book is three stars. As part of the trilogy: it’s a solid four.
La Moon in Miami, Florida…
4This crazy Man v. Food list is getting pretty long. LOL
- Joe’s Stone Crab in Miami, Florida
- The Old Salty Dog in Sarasota, Florida
- Hot N Juicy Crawfish in Las Vegas, Nevada
- The NASCAR Cafe in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Shula’s Steak House in Miami, Florida
- Gladys Knight And Ron Winans’ Chicken And Waffles in Atlanta, Georgia
- The Jack-N-Grill in Denver, Colorado
- The Buckhorn Exhange in Denver, Colorado
- The Vortex in Atlanta, Georgia
The weekend before last, I found myself in Miami for the evening taking care of some business related items on my to do list. Since I was in town and had some time to spare, I decided to track down another Man v. Food location in Miami: La Moon.
It’s a small place right at the edge of the city. The weather was cool, so I opted to sit outside and enjoy a beer. They had a Columbian brand I had never tried called Agila. It was light and provided the alcohol I would need for the hot dog goodness I was about to try…
The Supermoon Perro!
The Supermoon Perro is a Colombian style hot dog topped with bacon, potato strips, 5 different sauces, and a quail egg. You read that right, folks: that white thing in the photo on top of the hot dog is a quail egg.
And I ate it.
And it was good.
Overall, the hot dog was tangy and worthy of a MvF mention. The atmosphere, though, is what makes La Moon worth the stop. It has that Miami ambiance that you read about but rarely truly experience. For the prices and the value of food, odds are that I’ll swing by again in the future if only to take some friends to experience a colorful piece of South Florida.
Weekend Wanderings: Bike Riding in Vero Beach, Florida
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Let’s cut to the chase… shall we? I have no purpose in posting this today except to show my non-Floridian readers the “tortured lives” we suffer down here. I took this picture yesterday.
While riding my bike.
Near the beach.
It was about 70 degrees outside.
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Hey northern states with all that snow: SUCK IT.
…so regarding that new “The Green Hornet” movie [SPOILER]…
1During the film I thought it – and then about a whole second later, Shannon said it out loud.
So they can receive a fax in the super cool Black Beauty Green Hornet-mobile, but they can’t upload an audio file from a USB drive? Seriously? They have to drive all the way to the newspaper to do this?
Did NO ONE think to, oh… I don’t know, put a freakin’ laptop somewhere in the car?!
If you’re making a movie about something as geeky as the Green Hornet, please remember that geeks think of shit like this.
Just sayin’.
