An Assortment Of Underachieving At-Ats

I don’t know why but for some reason: maybe it’s the title, maybe it’s the images… all I can do is picture a bunch of AT-AT’s running around to the Benny Hill show theme music. Could be I’ve finally lost it and in my search for humor to not snap while working in a Help Desk that I actually have lost what little was left of my mind. All I know is that today has been an extremely long day and it’s not even 1 yet. Complaining aside I figured Star Wars fans would get a kick out of this one.

[via: LunchBreath's Flickr.]

The Rebirth of Futurama

I’m not big on posting news on my journal that doesn’t involve my projects but it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for since they brought back Family Guy… someone to wise up and bring back a REAL cartoon, namely Futurama. Well maybe you haven’t all been waiting for it but I have.

On June 24th, Season 6 of Futurama will officially be coming to Comedy Central with a 2 episode special ‘Rebirth’. While anyone who paid attention with the press that came out around the release of hte feature films knew this was ‘supposed’ to happen we finally have a date of release and a channel!

Apparently Comedy Central Insider will be giving us (see: The Internet) a lot of unique stills until the first episode airs. [via: Wired]

Happy Star Wars Day – Shirt Edition

Wiki:

May 4 is called Star Wars Day (also sometimes known as Luke Skywalker Day) because of a pun on the similarity between “May the 4th be with you” and “May the Force be with you”, a phrase often spoken in the Star Wars movies.

To celebrate such a fine occasion I decided to make a quick list of 13 of the more interesting original takes on Star Wars in shirt form that are out there. I know I’m missing quite a few but these are the favorites from some of the sites that I frequent!

Darth Vader made out of Space Invaders on a shirt? Geeks everywhere win – Ript Apparel. This one is ONLY available today and actually what gave me the idea in the first place.

Star Sabers shirt available at Threadless.

Glow in the dark LifeSaver shirt for those who want a ‘green’ lightsaber *groans* Available at Threadless

“When You Think About It, All Galaxies Are Far, Far, Away” Available at Threadless

A nursery rhyme from the dark side. Available from Split Reason

Don’t give the darkside a dramatic edge! With the new Lightsaber Glove Holster, your saber is guaranteed to stay fixed in your palm right where it belongs, or your money back! Available from Split Reason.

We will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy our Jedi brother. Available at Split Reason

The Run R2 Hoody shows what happens when everyone’s “favorite” robot is chased by something a little larger. Available at Split Reason

What would you do with the power? We feel a breeze in the Force. Available at Split Reason

“Though you may not have that light sabre to whip out anytime someone misjudges you as emo, at least you can now point to this t-shirt and get some serious geek cred” I’m not sure how much I agree with that but sure we’ll run with it! Available at Split Reason

R6 was one lazy bastard, though he did have a good excuse. Available at Split Reason.

There was a lot of legal debate if it was Han or Greedo who shot first.. Available at Think Geek

The Empire strikes back, but they sure don’t design space-stations well. Available at Busted Tees

Seriously Look At His Facial Expression

2 Posts in a day? Couldn’t be helped!

It’s absolutely amazing how a single inserted flashback scene can make this entire memorable Star Wars scene both 20x more disturbing and humorous. I mean just look at his facial expression right before AND after the flashback. Hilarious.

[Via: io9.]

This Makes me feel bad on so many levels

I really wish I could say that this is a major accomplishment for geekdom everywhere. I want to gush at how cool this is and that my inner child is geeking out and loving all 3 of these images. I really wish I could type these things and more and be honest about it. If I really felt that way I could live with the shame of knowing that I would receive endless harassment from both my girlfriend, friends, online friends, and strangers alike and be secure in the fact that it’s still cool dammit! … But really this one makes even me cringe. If it wasn’t Battlestar Galactica related and from another sci-fi franchise I wouldn’t even be posting it. If I wasn’t still addicted to a show that is now long over there would be something else here today. Unfortunately I have to, with shame, show off this latest Battlestar find and hope you cringe with me in the horror of what has been created based off of such an amazing show.

(As always, click on the images for larger versions)
[via: Jalopnik.]

Science Fiction Geek Chart (now with sexual role playing)

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A comparison between the different kinds of science fiction geeks that are out there. Going down the list it goes from Moniker, How they like their Science Fiction, Proudest moment, Lamet moment, When they go too far, What to expect if you marry one, How to piss one off, and clearly the most interesting and entertaining of them – sex role playing, I was so entertained by that last line I’d like to throw out a few sex role playing lines for other franchises:

• Battlestar Galactica: There was a lot of news about a sex robot being released earlier this year…
• Dune: I don’t want to think what kind of cosplay is going to be thought up with ‘sand worms’
• Fringe: Well if we go by Walter’s preferences of life there will be a heavy slant towards drug use
• Stargate: Portals where you can go part way through and the rest of you is on the other side? Glory Holes have existed for awhile.

Hey Wednesday is “hump day”.. making fun of the twisted sexual preferences of my fellow geeks is perfectly acceptable! (Wait… that’s “getting over the hump” and not sex? …. meh. My site! I need no excuse to talk about sex!)

Periodic Table of Science Fiction

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Like everything else, science fiction can be broken down into its constituent elements. When Avatar was discovered in 1803, H. Samuel Cameron knew it would decompose into Exo Squad, Matrix Revolutions, E.T. and Lost in Space atoms. Now you can understand these stoichiometric processes… and become a total sex magnet!!

Now if I thought owning this print would turn me into a total sex magnet for even a second I believe I’d go from being in a relationship to being single in about 30 seconds flat. Don’t worry hon I don’t believe that. I do believe though that for any science fiction loving geek out there this is a quick and fun read over just for the visual joy that anyone took the time to do this (and makes me wonder why I didn’t take the time to do this.)

You can buy a print over at Topatoco!

Minimalist Star Wars Travel Posters

I have to admit that while I enjoy the Minimalist style it’s not the first thing that I would imagine when going for Star Wars posters. These though absolutely work. I’m actually curious as to Justin’s take on a few of the planets from the Dune universe.

Now that would be extremely entertaining to see. (Also it would cheer me up since there is now a rumor that the new Dune film will be in 3D. Why. WHY?!)

[By: Justin Van Genderen]

Battlestar Galactica Composer Bear McCreary plays with Katee Sackhoff “All Along The Watchtower”

OK this is just epic for anyone who followed the series you know the scene this is starting with and already love the music Bear has put together. So here the composer gets to play with Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) and really would have been awesome to see. I’ll do a quick post of what was said on the youtube’s info for the video.

This is exclusive footage that I shot at the Grand Performances Series in Downtown Los Angeles.

Note from Bear McCreary: “Kara Thrace herself, Katee Sackhoff, joined me on stage at the grand piano to play Kara Remembers I played the left hand part, and she plucked out the Final Four Theme, just as she did in the climax of Someone to Watch Over Me. Once we had the Final Four Theme going on the piano, the band snuck in, building to Heeding the Call and finally All Along the Watchtower.

Dune.. Home of the.. Liam Neeson Punching You In The Face.. wait I mean Spice. Home of the Spice.

This news came about 3 days ago but I was preoccupied with life and when Matt linked me the Dune Cat above I realized it deserved a write up (if for no other reason but to use the above image again as I hadn’t seen it in a year or two.)

If that title above doesn’t make sense well here’s what it means: Peter Berg was originally lined up to direct the new Dune film but ended up dropping out and set to replace him is Pierre Morel. Who is Pierre Morel you ask? While not as much of a known name as Berg to some he was the director of “Taken.” For those of you who haven’t seen Taken yet it basically starred Liam Neeson as an ex-spy who goes around beating the hell out of people.

While that may not inspire many as Dune is an over the top 20 plot line mess if you think of it in a movie that isn’t under at least 6 hours long or perhaps a 1-2 season mini-series (just for the first novel) I’m still willing to give him a shot as what he has done did look spectacular. Let’s face it if you can’t fit in all of the plot (which will be impossible in the probable hour and a half to 2 hour movie that this will become) it has to at least look visually amazing.

So Pierre, just so you know (and I’m sure you care about the opinion of a blogger you’ve never heard of and probably will never meet) this is my favorite piece of science fiction. Ever. In fact this is one of, if not, my favorite science fiction stories of all time. Please don’t fuck it up.