The Coolest Spaceship Designs In Science Fiction
I’m just going to warn you right up front: this article is going to get extremely nerdy extremely fast. That said it’s time I, the expert ogler of spaceship designs at FleshEatingZipper, decided to go over the best fictional spaceship designs that our collective imagination has ever committed to production. I did my best to only pick one vessel from each major franchise (so sadly, I didn’t get to include my beloved TIE Defender) so with that said, let’s start with a few ships I didn’t pick: the Serenity from Firefly (above). Ship is ugly, on top of that, thirteen episodes and a movie (named after it, impressively) just isn’t enough time to fall in love with a ship that absolutely janky. Also: Discovery from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Classic, but so boring. So let’s move on to the stuff I did pick!
Moneyball – Movie Review – Why I Believe You Got Math In My Baseball
“Would I have been your first round pick?” Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) says, lounging while on the phone with Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a young Economics major from Yale. “Yeah, you were a good player.” But Beane laughs him off. “Seriously, would I be your first round pick?” A pause. “Ninth round, no signing bonus.” Early on, we see a young Beane just out of high school impress some talent scouts for the New York Mets. He takes the once-in-a-lifetime deal to play pro ball over a full-ride scholarship and ultimately fails to be the star player they picked him for. Now general manager of the Oakland A’s, the mathematical scheme Peter proposes to him can boil Beane and other players down to mere statistics through objective analysis. He can then take those players, undervalued by the broad baseball community for either their stance or party lifestyle, and create a playoff-ready team after a series of departures gut his lineup. It won’t be easy for Beane to convince his partners, though…
Bear Grylls – Man Vs. Wild? HA! More Like Man Vs. Putting Disgusting Junk In His Mouth.
Man Vs. Wild came out in 2006, under a number of different names; Man Vs. Wild – AKA Born Survivor : Bear Grylls – AKA Ultimate Survival – AKA Survival Game. When the show premiered, the producers went out of their way to give the impression that Bear was left all-but-stranded in remote locations and had to get himself out. I watched a few episodes of that show but it really bored me, back then. I tried to watch a few more episodes over the last several days and it didn’t bore me but I think I had half a dozen episodes of sympathetic gut-chucking.
Back in the beginning of the show, of course, anyone with half a brain and an IQ slightly higher than that of an old tire knew that he was there with a crew. Very much unlike Les Stroud’s series “Survivorman” – in which Les was solo and operating cameras, narrating, pathfinding, getting food, etc…on his own – Bear had a full crew of camera people with him.
What we didn’t know, at first, was that he also had another crew with him.
Dear Microsoft: Zune Still Exists, Don’t Skip Out On Facebook Music
Y’know, before that Facebook thing started getting big, there was a fledgling music startup by a popular software company called Zune. Within a year, it launched Social with the ability to build up a list of friends and share what you’re playing with them. Sound familiar? That’s because Facebook unveiled its new Music service that does much the same thing, including the ability to have friends listen with you in real-time. To show off this new feature, Zuckerberg showed off a new partnership with Spotify, which we’ve liked to various degrees, but it represents a huge step forward in sharing music. So while the Zune Social could’ve been all that and a bag of chips, Microsoft has essentially abandoned it as well as the brand in its virtual entirety and what a damn waste for how powerful this could’ve been for them.
Sons Of Anarchy – Season 4 Continues
Sons of Anarchy…Last week I wrote a piece about Sons heating up and the the excitement that is to come. I also said that I’d be writing articles each week and that there would be some spoilers.
I won’t be dropping huge spoilers on the recent episodes but if you don’t want some things revealed, read on with caution.
Man, Woman, Wild…Interesting…
After I wrote my article about the show “Survivor” licking fermented donkey scrot, I started looking around the interwebs for interesting shows which showcase real survival situations and techniques – a subject I have a pointed and personal interest in. I came across a few, some of which I will write about, and one of the ones I find particularly interesting is “Man, Woman, Wild”, on The Discovery Channel.
All Right, George: This Is The First (And Last) Time I’m Buying Star Wars
It should come to no one’s surprise that I grew up on Star Wars. My parents owned the original trilogy on LaserDisc and eventually VHS with the arrival of the 1997 Special Editions. I wouldn’t be what you would call the ‘casual viewer’: I don’t view the six films as merely entertainment, but as vertical slices of an epic canon. As a result, I’ve been far more apologetic of the prequel trilogy than most because it completes a necessary portion of the Star Wars arc despite being clearly inferior films. With the release of the sextilogy on Blu-ray, in high definition for the first time ever, there’s absolutely no reason to purchase any further iterations of Star Wars in a physical format. Ever.
Movie Review: Drive
The Driver is intense. Methodical, cold, pensive, we meet him (Ryan Gosling) on task. He’s a cowboy; always on point, quiet with toothpick dangling. You give him a location and he’ll give you five minutes to do your work and get you out. After that, you’re on your own. He’s hard to mistake with that white coat – a golden scorpion is stitched on the back – that he wears to every task. The Driver’s life is simple and he’s good at it, but he’s not detached: when the girl next door (Irene, played by Carey Mulligan) and her seven-year-old son tug at his heart strings, a smile isn’t far behind. He’s human after all, doing what’s right to protect her, even if that involves the spontaneous use of acute violence.
The Discovery Channel’s “The Colony” – Canceled…Apparently…Who knows?! Hello?
In 2009, The Discovery Channel and Discovery Entertainment released the show called “The Colony”. The show was an episodic “experiment” which involved taking a group of people, putting them in a survival situation and then ruining their lives for 10 weeks while they watched them, studied them and then ruined their lives some more while the “survivors” tried to survive in a post-apocalypse world.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like “The Colony” will survive to see season 3.
And The 7th Season Of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” Begins!
Hey gang, what’s the action? If you were too busy drinking wine out of a can, cooking rancid meat on a hot plate, or dating a retard, there’s a good chance you missed the season premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There’s no need to worry — I’ll give you the down low and whether or not it’s worth watching after the break!
