A live-action adaptation of Dragon Ball!? I knew this was gonna be bad. The only question was how bad. Well I got my answer last night, and it's a disaster. In fairness I saw the shorter Asian version, but I really don't think an extra 15 minutes of fight scenes is going to sway my opinion. The characters have been so ... [Read More]

For the first time ever The Simpsons is premiering outside of America with a special Saint Patrick's Day episode called In The Name Of The Grandfather. Those lucky Irish (and those of us with the internet) can watch it today, while everyone else will have to wait until Sunday. Not surprisingly, the theme involves alcohol. ... [Read More]

And apparently those of us over 26 don't think so good (I'm 31). A seven-year study at the University of Virginia found that our mental abilities peak at 22. And by the time we're 27, brain speed, reasoning and visual puzzle-solving ability are all in decline. Fortunately, memory doesn't decline until 37 so I can still find ... [Read More]

The Adventures of Superpup isn't the cartoon about Superman's dog Krypto. It's a live-action children's show about Superman except with dogs as the main characters. The actors are little people in animal costumes. Costumes they can't see out of! In one scene, the villain Professor Sheepdip can be seen visibly feeling ... [Read More]

When a little boy asked double amputee Nadya Vessey why she didn't have any legs, she answered, "I am a mermaid." Two-and-a-half years later that dream came true thanks to a mermaid suit designed by the Hollywood special effects company Weta Workshop. But unlike the kind seen in movies like Splash, this prosthesis is ... [Read More]

When a Pennsylvanian pet store received a package from US Airways they were expecting $1,000 worth of exotic fish. But instead of finding fish inside the box, there was a dead mailman. Jon Kenoyer, a retired postal worker, had died of Alzheimer's and was supposed to be shipped to Life Quest Anatomical for medical ... [Read More]

Sometimes no news is good news. That's because I've been doing a new webcomic. Smurfmen is a smurfy parody of the Watchmen comic/movie. There's a whole chapter up now in the webcomics section. Not gonna be a lot of chapters to this and I won't say if or when the next chapter will be out as I'll probably be behind whatever ... [Read More]