The Ups and Downs of Downton Abbey
I’m afraid I tend to be something of a conformist when it comes to television. My idea of discovering a good show isn’t watching from week one and hoping it turns out great. Usually it…
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For the Bounty Hunter’s Bakery: A Boba Fett Mixer
Well damn it! I’ve been doing the whole wedding registry thing recently, but when I selected colors for the KitchenAid mixer we want, the options were “White” and “Red.” I must have missed “Fett.” In…
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Mandarin: The Homeless Pimp
I don’t usually comment on movie posters, but I had to when this one premiered for Iron Man 3. It’s Ben Kingsley as Mandarin, and I guess they wanted to distance themselves from the “evil Chinese sorcerer”…
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When Stars Get Starstruck: Jack Nicholson Hits on Jennifer Lawrence
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmhsJ5T5L0 Since her Best Actress win at the Oscars this Sunday, Jennifer Lawrence has risen to become the It Girl to end all It Girls. Yes, she’s extremely talented, but that’s not why everyone seems…
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Nerds in Love: Physicist Proposes with an Academic Paper
(click to enlarge) I’m a proud member of the “my significant other is quite a bit smarter than me” club, and as such I probably would have never thought of something this clever when…
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This is Happening Rocky Balboa vs. Jake La Motta
Sylvester Stallone is the king of “making movies about old people doing things old people are now theoretically too old to do,” as evidenced by his last Rocky, Rambo and Expendables films. But now he’s roping in…
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The Dark Side, I Have Joined
Art via Aleksandr Nikonov. What we have above is a rarely seen picture from Yoda’s rebellious teenage years when he thought he’d experiment with the dark side of the force. “Mom and dad, ground me,…
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Raising a New Generation of Nerds: The X-Wing Bed
When I was a kid, my dad assembled a wooden fort/jungle gym in the basement that I used to crawl all over despite the copious amount of splinters it gave me. Using my imagination, it…
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For Nerds in Training: A Star Wars Family Tree
If you’re reading this site, chances are you could have probably written this chart yourself, but some people may indeed have trouble keeping the families of Star Wars straight. The expanded universe in particular is…