Thursday links

[yendi]

Heading to the Green Street Grill tonight with a bunch of co-workers to celebrate one of them having been here for a year, which should be fun for the hour or so before my crowd issues kick in.

Links to dump:

1. Wii injuries are on the rise again. I'm surprised to hear that boxing and tennis are the sports that cause the big injuries, as it's always been baseball that made my arm into a pile of misery when I've played Wii Sports.

2. There will be a New Stephen Bochco show on TNT with Jane Kaczmarek and Gloria Reuben! Insert obligatory Bocho/Cop Rock joke here.

3. New Feist Video!

4. There's a new winner of the (non-existent) "irony in cover layout" award.

5. Yet another list of 100 books every child should read.

6. Folks in Salem, MA can finally have bake sales again! Kind of.

7. America's Test Kitchen/Cook's Illustrated are looking for recipe testers!

8. Starbucks is testing $1 cups of coffee and free refills in their Seattle stores.

9. Amazon's VIdeo Game Deal of the Day is Wario: Master of Disguise for the DS for $11.99 (60% off), a hell of a good deal.

10. Finally, there's a Rambo Kill chart, detailing the deaths and other events in the four Rambo films.

Bonus: Don't forget to visit Yendiopolis!

Comments

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Wii injuries are on the rise again

To avoid injury, you must train properly, young grasshopper.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

10. I find it fascinating what Stallone is doing with the two films franchises of his most associated with his face. "Rocky", of course, won the Best Picture Oscar when it came out, and for good reasons. But the sequels were bad cartoony trash compared with the original. But last year's "Rocky Balboa" actually told the proper end of the story; I won't be at all surprised if boxed sets of DVDs which contain only the first and last movies in that franchise come out.

Likewise, it looks like this upcoming "Rambo" movie will tell a real story (with 'splosions, cuz still Rambo), and underscore the (occasional) need for violence (rather than the base desire for it).

It's almost as if Stallone is cleaning up his oeuvre for retirement or something.

[yendi]

Now if only he'd taken on arole in the new Death Race movie. :-)

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

"Insert obligatory Bocho/Cop Rock joke here.

Really? 17 years later they're still obligatory? Good lord, let it die.

[yendi]

Well, in fairness, he's had one post-CR hit (NYPD Blue, whose success is generally attributed to Milch), and one critical hit (Murder One), and about eight flops (depending how you count his run on Commander in Chief). CR tends to represent the point at which Bochco went from being a nigh-infallible genius to being mortal.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Is First Blood even in the same genre as the other "Rambo" movies?

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Are the two Kill Bill movies in the same genre?

[angryvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks - I signed up as a recipe tester.

[deyo.livejournal.com]

Bad guys killed by good guys: 123

Good guys killed by bad guys: 113

Good guys win, advancing to quarterfinals.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Boxing doesn't surprise me, since mine doesn't seem to register 3/4 of my gestures, causing me to go nuts trying to get a single punch through. Aaaargh.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

my problem with wii baseball is that i play it so infrequently that every time i do play, i treat it like a real ball game, complete with pitches and windups.

holy heck my arm screams after 3 innings. granted im also batting. maybe thats it.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

9. Amazon's VIdeo Game Deal of the Day is Wario: Master of Disguise for the DS for $11.99 (60% off), a hell of a good deal.

Ack!

When I read your post yesterday, I put it in my shopping cart, planning to go back that afternoon and order it. Then I completely forgot about it, until this morning.

Now it's back up to full price. D'oh!