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I saw "The People vs. George Lucas" at SXSW. It's a very entertaining documentary, if nothing else, but as a documentary it sits in an odd place. First of all, the only people who will want to see it, and will enjoy it much, are Star Wars fans who are already intimately familiar with the...

There's absolutely no question that Manos, The Hands of Fate is a worse movie than Plan 9. Sure, Ed Wood's charming shitfest is really, really bad, but it's charmingly bad, whereas Manos is almost literally painful, and boring as well. Eat ice cream really fast, and you'll know what it's like...

Love Brotherhood of the Wolf, I was a fan of that weird little piece of history long before the movie came out. Might I recommend Todd Browning's Freaks? Though in some ways that might be a little too extreme for this crowd...

You all fail. The most realistic game was also one of the worst, an unreleased joke minigame in Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors for Sega CD called Desert Bus. In Desert Bus you drive from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas wait for it... in real time. You also cannot pause, and nor can you...

There's also no such thing as a "Semite." "Semitic" refers to people who speak the Semitic languages, like Arabic, Hebrew and Amharic. However, after being used in racist books and essays in the mid-to-late 1800s, the term evolved to specifically denote Jews. Thus, anti-Semitism and...

The hounds of Tindalos are definately in contention. I'd go with the Nightgaunts, though. There's something extra-special scary about a faceless horned imp who grabs you, lifts you into the air on leathery wings, and then uses the razor-sharp barb at the end of its tail to tickle you--...

Good call on Lieutenant George, there. Of course, we could have both he and Stephen Fry doing Jeeves and Wooster: "Ahem." "You coughed, Jeeves?" "Oh no sir." "Well out with it. What's wrong?" "Well sir, if we are to cast a grenade at this group of political extremists, their...

All too well. I think he'd like it too much.

When Halo 2 had just come out, a friend and I practiced a special maneuver with the Banshee just for kicks. Then we ended up playing CTF on Coagulation with some guys we knew over Live, and the mics were all connected so not only were we getting terribly killed, but they were trash talking...

I got a good new one: Julia Child. And Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers).

Last off-topic Bob Dylan mention, moderator gods! Promise! Another thing, he never does press. I mean, in a world of vapid pop stars jostling for a spot on The Tonight Show, Dylan thrives despite the fact that he's done something around three interviews in the past thirty years. Who does...

Kissinger would actually make sense, and make a kick-ass mission briefing character for a game set in the '60s. That is if they ever make Medal of Honor: Bay of Pigs.

Watch what you're sayin, I'm a huge Two Worlds fan, so that's a shot right back. Just kidding. I've never played Two Worlds and love Bob Dylan. In fact, this post made me want to listen to Subterranean Homesick Blues enough that it's playing right now. Having said that, his singing voice...

Insult Jeff Goldblum? Me? Noooo... Though he was superb in The Fly. Kathy Griffin definitely makes the short list.

"Well gosh! It's just like shootin' endangered wolves from helicopters!"