Casio has realized that a ruggedized camera should look tough. Normally these kinds of shock-resistant, waterproof, dustproof machines come in big, bubble-shaped, brightly colored cases. The Exilim EX-G1, though, looks like a stealth fighter with knobs on. So how tough is it? You can shoot for an hour at ten feet below the water, use it [...]
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(This was written early last week, but a power outage due to the Nor'easter is why I'm posting it now) Remember that scene in " Goodfellas " when Jimmy( Robert DeNiro ) excitedly called to hear how Tommy's( Joe Pesci ) ceremony where he was being " made " went, only to get the unexpected news that his childhood friend had met an untimely demise? The dismissively casual nature of...
”It’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, inside a riddle,” - David Ferrie (as portrayed by Joe Pesci), JFK - 1991 If someone can claim to dicipher the true value of Jordan Staal to the Pittsburgh Penguins, please, be my guest. The young man (just turned 21 on Sept. 10th) is obviously very talented at the NHL level and has performed brilliantly at times. At other times, however, he really...
Despite being a documentary enthusiast in general, I've never been too fond of concert films. For me to be interested, they must have some sort of significance outside of being the visual record of a random show. For example, Woodstock...
David Cronenberg's Wife: Hypnogogues The scene everyone remembers in Goodfellas is Joe Pesci’s character flipping in an instant: “I'm funny how? I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you'” There are times here when you get the same sense of comedy-turned-danger from Tom Mayne and company on their second album; one moment you’re...
I’m very pleased with my new piece on the Huffington Post – Badfellas : How Rahm And My President Killed Health Reform. I think it’s a poweful, apt analogy and I even snuck in some dialog from the film. Do you remember how Joe Pesci got killed inMartin Scorcese’s film Goodfellas? Pesci was told he was [...]
Michael Jackson may be dead but he lives on in everyone's attempts to make a quick buck off him. It seems the SEGA Genesis game Michael Jackson's Moonwalker will be coming to the Wii.
PEGI listing spills beans. SEGA's classic Moonwalker game may be heading to Virtual Console months after the death of the man it's based on, Michael Jackson. PEGI supplies the evidence: a listing for the game on Wii carrying the 12 age rating. An adaptation of the Moonwalker film, the game follows the story of mean man Joe Pesci and hero MJ, who spins and kicks his way through 1930s period baddies....
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Paul Preminger, former drummer for the notorious Vancouver-based garage punk band the Smugglers , died of an apparent heart attack on October 27. Preminger -- who co-founded the band in the late 1980's, but left to become a chef in 1992 -- played on the band's early singles, debut EP and compilation tracks. Smugglers vocalist Grant Lawrence, who doubles as a CBC Radio 3...
Victoria’s Secret was founded in 1972, but the company didn’t really hit its stride until the 1990’s when it began to use hot supermodels to show off its sexy line of lingerie. Victoria’s Secret has a flag-ship store in New York City’s Herald Square and 1,000 outlets nationwide. They’re all absolutely gorgeous! One reason for that is the incredibly gorgeous models...
Paul Preminger, founding drummer of Vancouver-punks The Smugglers , has passed away from a heart attack. Smugglers vocalist Grant Lawrence remembered Preminger to Straight.com as: A guy that hit the drums hard, and who lived hard. He was a Joe Pesci, bulldog kind of a guy, but very smart, very funny, and very kind. He was one of those guys who'd sit on the couch and answer every single question...
This week, I’m preparing for the beginning of Sesame Street ’s 40th season next week by watching old Sesame Street anniversary specials. Check out my thoughts on the 10th anniversary and the 20th anniversary. So here we are in 1994, and it’s Sesame Street ’s 25th anniversary, and wow. A lot has changed since the 20th anniversary five short years ago. In fact, there were more...
To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends, The Federal Home Loan Banks of Chicago , Boston and Pittsburg all lost money last quarter. Having a FHLB potentially fail is pretty scary. The markets seem to indicate a real fear of commercial real estate values. At least that’s our conclusion from seeing how the commercial mortgage REITs [...]
Why the original Transformers movie is better than the new one? chambers and, perhaps, the Elephant Man's bones. Whether an illness or a form of self-mutilation, it was a shame. The appealingly handsome young man on the cover of Off the Wall and Thriller morphed (as in the famous "Black or White" video) into a synthetic science-fiction construction that could only have inhabited an artificial universe
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What is your favourite transformer?
My favourite transformer is Bumble Bee (duh). So tell me what your favourite is.
WHY TRANSFORMERS 2 WAS NOT AS GOOD AS TRANSFORMERS 1
Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen was not as good as Transformers, because in the first movie there was more robot battles, but, in the second movie there...