Bleepie-bee-bleep-bleep
February 25, 2009
FINALLY! A Star Wars fan short that makes us understand what’s going on in the mind of R2-D2. Very disturbing.
NBA All-Star Saturday ‘09
February 15, 2009
WOW! What can I say?
That All-Star Saturday is completely.. a waste of my time.
I thought that from the Shooting Stars.. to the Skills Challenge.. the Three Point Shootout.. and especially the Dunk Contest was pretty much a snoozer.
The Shooting Stars.. well, it’s ok. It’s just like something to get the crowd hyped I guess. I’m not a pro-basketball player, but am I wrong to say that they’re suppose to hit a shot from the half-court easily since this is their profession? I mean, cmon, don’t they practice this all the time? How come they can only shoot from the halfcourt in at least 20 tries?
So Detroit wins again. It’s nice to see Bill Laimbeer, huh? He just got a lot rounder. But he’s pretty much the same.
Off to the next event, the Skills Challenge. From here, the contestants were supposedly quick and agile. But watching Mo Williams, Tony Parker, Devin Harris, and Derrick Rose compete wasn’t that much fun.
They’re like taking they’re time.. sorta like in a cruise control mode hoping to just get into the next round.
Is it just me? Is it just the TV? But aren’t they suppose to be super quick? When I watched Steve Nash and Dwyane Wade compete before, THEY WERE FAST.
This bunch were just like not really putting any effort into it.
Derrick Rose won and at least we got to see a sweet reverse dunk from him.
3-Point Shootout.. pretty much the same old thing. I was hoping Jason Kapono would win this one. He’s got a nice form and quite the best in this range.
But the dark horse won it. Congratulations Mr Daequan Cook! He’s the most consistent shooter from the contestants. Kapono sucked in the 2nd round. He should be making 20points, but he barely qualified to the 2nd round because of the hot hands of Rashard Lewis and Cook.
Rashard was suppose to win it. But Cook forced a knockout round and in that round, burned Lewis’ 7 point effort.
Then came the Slamdunk Contest.
Now personally, I think this year’s slamdunk event sucks.
The much hyped event because of Dwight Howard’s last year stint roved to be a flop.
When asked by Cheryl Miller to give her and the fans some hint of what he’s going to do, he just said he doesn’t know.
Howard’s first attempt was an against-the-grain dunk which received a perfect 50.
A perfect 50?!? I think Rudy Fernandez and JR Smith did a solid number but they didn’t get much love from the judges. Tough!
Howard did brought out a 12 foot rim (2 feet higher than the standard rim) and performed his corny necessary theatrics for the return of the Superman, to do a 12-foot-off-the-back-board-from-jameer-nelson-two-handed-dunk which he made it look so easy.
Now that’s NASTY!
In the spirit of outdoing Superman, Nate Robinson had to do this annoying thing by dressing himself up in a Knicks St Patricks getup and donning this shirt..
Robinson did dunk his usual stuff except for one number. He dunked-off from his teammate’s back giving him a sorta piggyback dunk.
If you ask me, that’s a dangerous move considering that Robinson could’ve injured Wilson Chandler’s spine. That’s dumb!
Knowing that things are going downhill from here, Howard let Robinson jump over him in his last dunk like giving away the contest to Robinson.
Like, Dwight, that over there is called “Getting Owned!”
We could’ve enjoyed Rudy Fernandez trick dunks instead of this “showmanship” but…
Anyways, this should’ve been the top dunker of the night.
Hopefully, theAll-Star Game would make up for all this over-hyped events.
Come to think of it, I think the only silver lining to these events are Reggie Miller’s commentaries.
My friend and I did laughed off to this question.. “If you have a chance to dunk like Nate Robinson but you will have his body type, would you do it?”
My friend had to weigh his answer to.. “if I could, I’d be in the NBA. But I have to retain my face because Robinson looks weird by having a buffed body but short arms.”
“Nah! I won’t do it!”
Wormed Into – Kingdom Come
February 13, 2009
 Kingdom Come |
Title: Kingdom Come
Author: Mark Waid; Alex Ross
Summary: Kingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics. It was written by Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Alex Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea. Set some 20 years into the future of the then-current DC Universe, it deals with a growing conflict between “traditional” superheroes, such as Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League, and a growing population of largely amoral and dangerously irresponsible new vigilantes. Between these two groups is Batman and his assembled team, who attempt to contain the escalating disaster, foil the machinations of Lex Luthor, and prevent a world-ending superhuman war.
The series draws heavily on Biblical apocalyptic imagery, especially that of the Book of Revelation.
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Kingdom Come is a four-ish DC comic series about DC’s “Holy Trinity” (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) set 20 years since the Man of Steel’s exile for being bad at what he does best (being the Last Boyscout).
Besides Alex Ross‘ fantastic painting, I find the story a bit a lot dragging knowing Superman and Wonder Woman’s lame storyline. I mean, c’mon.. if someone calls you Wonder Woman, you should at least look like this. That alone will draw attention.
I like Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor’s moments here. Both are smart businessmen who knows how to execute backstabbing.
Then, there’s zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Wormed Into – Marvel Monsters
February 2, 2009
 Marvel Monsters |
Title: Marvel Monsters
Author: Peter David (Author), Jeff Parker (Author), etal
Summary: Marvel Comics simultaneously pays tribute to and pokes fun at their monster books of the 1950s and 1960s with the must-have MARVEL MONSTERS collection. As befitting of that era, Marvel’s creatures were Godzilla-inspired, oversized creatures of the post-atomic age, brought to city-smashing life in tryout titles like WHERE MONSTERS DWELL, STRANGE TALES, JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY and TALES TO ASTONISH (in contrast, DC’s monsters of the time were largely horror).
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So I promised myself this year that I’m going to make full use of my time. I’m going to do more of things that I was suppose to do last year.
This includes reading books. More and more books. I don’t really read books unless they have pictures in it.
The last time I read a book that doesn’t have pictures in it was.. I think it was “The Tale of the Body Thief” by Anne Rice.
Then came the internet.. so I really didn’t put that much effort to read books.
Good thing about moving to Singapore is that they have comic books in libraries that can be borrowed. Comics, magazines, AV materials, etc. Unlike back home where you can only browse books in National Bookstores, Singapore libraries actually provides patrons various resources that are easily available.
So I found myself staring at this hardbound comic book with no Spider-Man, Hulk, Batman, or any other superhero figure in its cover. I picked it up and read the title.. it’s called Marvel Monsters.
I thinkt it’s pretty cool for Marvel to publish a comic book compilation about their supporting casts which are basically monsters. Ugly friggin’ monsters.
It’s like reading a yearbook about your class zeroes and nobodies where the spotlight is on them. And it’s pretty good.
Monsters like King of the Lizards, Bombu, Manoo, Monstrollo, Fing Fang Foom, Gorgilla, Googam (Son of Goom.. who the what??), and more monsters you can ever imagine.
They’re all illustrated well and in details which makes this book a must have for avid collectors.
Of course, that doesn’t escape the fact that these monsters will get pounded to death by the heroes the Beast, Ant Man, The Thing, and the Hulk. That’s right monkeyboy.. the mean green pounding machine.
It’s a nice book that you’ll enjoy sinking yourself into. So go to your local library and find a copy to borrow.
Up Hill
February 1, 2009
The Phoenix Suns maybe spotty these days, but at least Grant Hill is all fired up and consistent. Hopefully he can inspire his team to get back to the same playoff-caliber Suns that they are suppose to be.
Watch these now..
Block-Steal-Layup-And1 move vs Tony Parker and Spurs
Tomahawk Jam vs Joakim Noah
Keep it up, Mr Hill. Lead by example despite losses after losses. That’s what made you great in Detroit.
Suns failure to compete ends worst month in years (brightsideofthesun.com)
