Visit the Museum of Fantastic Specimens, in English.
(via MAKE)
https://www.swordbilled.com/838/
(2006) dir. Andrew Currie – w/ Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly as a boy’s best friend, Dylan Baker as a man who has problems with zombies, K’Sun Ray as a zombie’s best friend, and others, in roles such as: Zombie Grandpa, Zombie Paperboy, Human Milkman, Dr. Hrothgar Geiger, and Poacher Driver (Zombie Poaching apparently being a lucrative career choice).
Synopsis: It’s the future, kind of, in an alternate sort of universe where it’s like the 1950s except for the part where space-dust has turned all the dead people into zombies, and a giant corporation has harnessed zombie power for the good of humanity. Also, you’re not allowed to have hand-guns till you’re 13 (until then, you have to make do with rifles–you think I’m kidding, but I’m not).
Review: Expecting to be mildly amused, I was warmly surprised by this movie. Morbidly heart-warming and coy, this is no great epic, but there are moments of surprising depth. It’s a stretch to apply the word “realistic”, probably, but there are scenes in which you realize that Fido (the titular zombie, played by Billy Connolly), despite being dead and all, is more human, and more compassionate, than some of the non-zombie characters. Performances all around are pretty swell–particularly Carrie-Anne Moss’s, which surprises particularly when compared to some of her better-known roles. All in all a comic, satisfying romp.
Rating: [] out of []
https://www.swordbilled.com/fido/
Mildly frightening robot cat. Just don’t let it eat the robot chicken.
(Somewhat surprisingly, not that robot chicken.)
(via Consumerist)
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-future-is-here/
https://www.swordbilled.com/super-massive-run-down/
I am:
For years, this unique creator of absurd and haunting tales denied that he had anything to do with science fiction. |
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.” |
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What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
Also, I do not refer to carbonated beverages as “pop”; naturally, all of the other information is 100% accurate.
https://www.swordbilled.com/less-surprised-to-learn-im-some-sort-of-giant-robot-more-surprised-im-from-the-great-lakes/
Casper The Friendly Ghost – The Animal Square Dance
(via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, where there are plenty more songs to listen to)
https://www.swordbilled.com/we-animals-have-a-good-time-too/
https://www.swordbilled.com/elefantenrusselfisch/
If you don’t have time to pick up a copy of Jeff Goodell’s Big Coal, then you ought to at least take a read through his compact Washington Post article, King Coal: What It Costs Us.
Related: George Orwell writes about coal mining.
(via Gristmill)
https://www.swordbilled.com/yes-that-coal/
Numbers can be stifling and boggling, but more amazing (and depressing) than the fact that 40% of deaths, worldwide, are related to pollution, is the statement that some 57% of the world population is malnourished. Which is shocking to me, but not. More shocking, however, is that in 1950, the percentage was 20.
(via EurekAlert: “Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths worldwide” [13 Aug 2007])
https://www.swordbilled.com/pollution-deaths/
…we won’t need the advice of our friends for anything, and giant birds will terrorize shoppers everywhere.
https://www.swordbilled.com/in-the-future/