Showing posts with label tribble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tribble. Show all posts

18 November 2009

Scriptophilia NOS

Tomorrow, my Abnormal Psych partner and I will be presenting our amazing slideshow about paraphilias. For those of you who don't know, a paraphilia is a sexual deviance. Among the common paraphilias are pedophilia, voyeurism, and transvestism, among others. A -philia qualifies as a paraphilia when it is required for the sexual enjoyment of the individual. Our slideshow is at least 65 slides long; I have no doubt that we'll get an A. In fact, this is one of the few times that I'm not nervous the night before a presentation; I'm that confident about this.
However....

In honor of the release of the new Star Trek movie [which was actually yesterday], I present this list:


9 Hilarious Star Trek Products!
1. Star Trek Eggo Waffles

2. Spock Barbie: They also made Uhura and Kirk, but you know me; I love me some Spock!

3. Star Trek iPod

4. Red Shirt Cologne

5. ST:TNG Personal Log

6. The Star Trek Cookbook, by Ethan Philips et al.

7. Spock USB Drive

8. Star Trek Scrabble

9. Interactive Tribble



May the economy live long and prosper.
~Sushi

19 October 2009

I Can't Believe They Killed Him Just to Make a Good Movie

I was seven the first time I watched Titanic. I was thinking about it because today, my family started the process of closing our pool, which involved me standing knee-deep in freezing cold water, scooping the leaves out. I'm sure you can see the correlation. Anyway, being seven, and seeing the first on-screen death that I can actually recall, I was horrified when Rose lets Jack go, so he sinks, freezing, alive or dead, into the ocean. I thought that they had killed Leonardo DiCaprio just to make a good picture. It took a while for my mom to explain that one to me.
Being on this topic, I also recall at least two instances where actors have actually died in the process of making a movie; in both cases, the movie was rather celebrated. Heath Ledger, a very fine actor, if not one of the best, died whilst playing the role of the Joker in Dark Knight. The day after I heard about it, girls were crying over him at school. Some took the day off to mourn. Another less-recent occurrence was that of Brandon Lee's death during the shooting...er, filming, of The Crow. While a scene involving gunplay was being filmed, blank bullets were being used to create a more realistic scene. Sadly for Brandon, the gun was turned on him for the scene, and he was killed when a blank got stuck in the barrel. The next time the gun was fired, he was hit with two blanks, the jammed one having been forced out by the next shot. He was killed on impact, and the rest of the movie had to be completed with his recorded voice, as well as the primitive CGI technology of the early '90s. Needless to say, it was a beautiful film, and a very tragic loss.
Another thought: both of these movie deaths occurred while filming movies based on comics and/or graphic novels. Strange...


We need a light-hearted list after a rather heavy-hearted topic.



Thirteen Adorable Chibis!


1. Spock and Kirk [and a tribble!]

2. Darth Vader

3. Team Rocket

4. Wizard of Oz

5. Sweeney Todd

6. Raiden [Mortal Kombat]

7. Nightcrawler

8. Dancing Panda!

9. Penelo {IRL!}

10. The Joker

11. Harry Potter Cast!

12. The Crow [technically not a chibi, but still awesome]

13. Catwoman




Aww... Don't you feel better now?
~Sushi