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Monthly Archives: April 2009

It’s nice to see political mockery is alive and well in Texas.

21-Apr-09

It’s no secret that I dislike my governor. Rick Perry has been a horrible governor for Texas and just keeps getting worse. There were a couple of corruption stories about him, but they have faded into obscurity. Anyway, I’m sure you’ve all seen him recently. He’s the douche bag who stood up at a San […]

1UP already stole my headline

21-Apr-09

Rock out with your block out was pretty obvious, to be fair.  I can’t make up my mind how I feel about this.  On the one hand, the concept I find to be pretty stupid, but then I don’t have kids.  But I’d kill to have two or three of the songs on that brief […]

Trek yoself (b4 you wreck yoself)

20-Apr-09

So the hubby and I have been having hours of fun with this today. you should too!

Canon fodder

20-Apr-09

“Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They’re just an interpretation, they’re not a record…” –       Leonard Shelby, Memento Given Hollywood’s propensity for mining old ideas for new revenue streams, we’ve all heard these complaints at one time or another: They’ve […]

Book vs. Movie: Let The Right One In.

20-Apr-09

Books that get adapted for the silver screen usually get a bum deal. Books that are written based on a movie are even worse off. Let’s look at how Let The Right One In faired. I read John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel before I watched Tomas Alfredson’s movie. I do this with most the books that […]

Blame the parents-pt. 1

20-Apr-09

Women like this make my blood boil. It’s not even so much that the only good thing she said video games can do is improve hand/eye coordination. It’s not even that she said that instead of playing video games, people should try to be better spouses/parents. It isn’t even that she “GUARAN-DANG-TEEs” in all caps […]

The Basement’s Take on the New Cobra Commander

18-Apr-09

What follows is a Bill Simmons-esque discussion many of us recently had about the new Cobra Commander toy relased by Hasbro. Well, except all the frat talk is replaced with Net jargon, but this is the Basement after all. Sam: They’ve raped my childhood. Jake: qfft Me: So, Cobra Commander wasn’t a metrosexual version of […]

****Breaking News****

18-Apr-09

Since I don’t have any of your phone numbers, and I’ve read your hatred for social networking sites (except Michael), I feel my first post on this blog must be to announce that………. STAR TREK TICKETS ARE ON SALE. oh and WOLVERINE TICKETS ARE ON SALE. Go get em! p.s. actual post from me coming […]

Domo arigato, Harmonix

17-Apr-09

Harmonix announces that next week’s downloadable content for Rock Band will include a 7-song pack of REO Speedwagon and Styx. Jesus, if they’d only mix in some Van Halen, I could recreate the Texxas Jam in my living room.  I’m regressing back to my youth in the best possible way. Update: The Texxas Living Room […]

Texas Geeks Know Sam Houston > Rick Perry

17-Apr-09

Anyone who knows me understands that I’m one of those annoying Texans who really digs being a Texan. I blame my parents. You see, I actually grew up in rural Texas. So we had horses, cows, cattle guards, and dirt roads. Not that I lived on some big glorious ranch. More like ten acres of […]