"Gaming Wars"

All 3 major game systems are going to release their newest editions by the end of 2006. The following is cut and pasted from a USA today article by a certain rather lazy blogger that should remain nameless.


The players are in place for the next video game battle of the big guns.
Nintendo reveals details Tuesday of its new system, code-named Revolution, after Sony's announcement of the PlayStation 3 console Monday and Microsoft's unveiling of Xbox 360 on an MTV special last Thursday.

All the action is taking place before the annual E3 Expo, which begins Wednesday. The three gaming giants will unveil the systems there.

Microsoft is expected to have the Xbox 360 in stores first, in time for the holidays. Nintendo and Sony will follow in 2006. No prices have been set, and release dates have not been locked in.
Nintendo, whose GameCube sales have lagged, hopes to gain ground, particularly among the fast-growing older-gaming market. Revolution is about the size of a stack of three DVD cases and has no visible knobs, buttons or ports for joysticks. The system will use only wireless controllers, and it sits flat or stands vertically.


With its front-loading slot for discs, it will play games on full-size DVDs as well as older GameCube games on mini-DVDs. Like Xbox and PlayStation 2, it will play DVD movies.
Nintendo, which mostly ignored the Net with GameCube, also is catching up with the online wave. Revolution will offer broadband access to a free Internet-based player matching service, similar to Xbox Live, that also will have downloadable versions of nearly every Nintendo game - from arcade classic Donkey Kong through current titles such as Mario Sunshine. (Nintendo hasn't decided whether downloading will be free.)
Xbox spokesmen have pointed out that 360's specifications are 10 to 13 times more powerful than those of the original Xbox; Sony said Monday that the processor in Play-Station 3, which will come in several colors and be out next spring, will be 35 times more powerful than the PS2 processor.

Nintendo makes more modest claims that Revolution is two or three times more powerful than GameCube. "It's not all about having 'turbo power,' " Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan says. "It's about what you do with it."

Analyst Richard Doherty of The Envisioneering Group says one of Revolution's chief advantages is that designers will find it far easier to create games for Revolution than for competing systems. "They do not need to make major changes from the games they were designing," he says. "They have better performance without having to do a lot of extra work."


Says Kaplan: "We've built Revolution around the concept of 'all-access gaming,' " a term Nintendo uses to mean the system is easily adapted to by both gamers and designers. "We're about sticking to the soul of gaming."

"Bad Joke"

Fitting I thought.


Where do Sith Lords shop?
At Darth Mall.

"Box Office Big Boys"

Came across this reading Roger Ebert's review of Kicking and Screaming. Thought it was pretty intresting. Enjoy.




"Will Ferrell is now a major movie star, with nine more new movies in the pipeline. I learn of his status from the industry analyst David Poland, who has crunched the numbers and come up with the "real" list of box office heavyweights. He says top 10 stars in terms of actual ticket sales are, in order: Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Denzel Washington. The highest-ranking woman on the list is Reese Witherspoon, at No. 12."

"Flag on the Play at Echelon"

Well it would seem the zoning laws that were pushed through last fall to get the ball rolling to build a free standing Wal-Mart to bring the Echelon Mall back from the dead weren't pushed through after all. A few weeks ago it was learned that some legal jurkon lead to realization that the approval of the zoning was actually void. It was never legal to begin with.

So, PREIT has been dealt a major set back. Now they have to get the entire zoning approved before they can even get to the stage they were at earlier this spring. Eventually, they could just tell the good people to pound sand. Or in the words of a former manager of mine during my retail days.

"Suck off, and Die!"


Here is an article from Monday's Courier post.

"Flag on the Play at Echelon"

Well it would seem the zoning laws that were pushed through last fall to get the ball rolling to build a free standing Wal-Mart to bring the Echelon Mall back from the dead weren't pushed through after all. A few weeks ago it was learned that some legal jurkon lead to realization that the approval of the zoning was actually void. It was never legal to begin with.

So, PREIT has been dealt a major set back. Now they have to get the entire zoning approved before they can even get to the stage they were at earlier this spring. Eventually, they could just tell the good people to pound sand. Or in the words of a former manager of mine during my retail days.

"Suck off, and Die!"


Here is an article from Monday's Courier post.

"Bad Joke of THE week"

It's time for the BAD JOKE OF THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!


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What did the Alien say to the Gardner?

Take me to your weeder.

"Sleep"

I am getting ready to go to bed. Nothing beats that one moment when you first climb into bed for the night. A whole night of sleep in front of you. Just getting ready to be out like a light. Wrap yourself up in your covers and shut your brain off. After 25 years, its still on of my favorite things to do.

"Summer Movie Wasteland"

It would seem that Hollywood is going to be on auto pilot this summer. MOst the movies coming out are remakes, sequels, or lame attempts to cash in on old TV shows.


First off we have the Honeymooners coming out with Hollywood felt needed to be "urbanized" so they cast Cedric the Enterainer in the Jackie Gleason part. This might pissed people off casting black people as white people. I guess people have a point I don't see Eugene Levy playing Shaft anytime soon. I am more pissed that Cedric the Entertainer who I think is funny, is being so lame in the films he picks. I watched his show both weeks it was on before it got cancelled, why not write your own funny characters? Instead of trying to cash in on comedy legend's character from 5 decades ago? How very lame.

Second, we have a Bewitched movie with Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrall, which a really idotic premise. Don't forget the Batman movie where we learn the start of the legend. Anyone that actually read the comic in their life is tired of hearing this story. The entire concept was summed up in a few scenes in Tim Burton's 1989 film. Not to mention its a mostly british cast with a british director. Next years SUperman film is being filmed in Australia, are we out sourcing our super heros too?

The House of Wax looks like a lame slasher flick which stole the name from a Vincent Price classic. With Paris Hilton no less. I am told that theaters cheered when she got ofted. Throw in Speilberg air lifting the War of the Worlds to make it his own. TIm Burton remaking Willy WOnka, and a Star Wars pre-quel. No one had a original idea this summer?


Supposedly 8 horror movies are being released, and I saw a few trailers for other fantasy films that visually look like they just want to be the Next Harry Potter.

Oh yeah and Peter Jackson remade King Kong. Altough I am not sure if thats still coming out this summer.


I am looking forward to the Star Wars film. THe only other two is the Bill Murray flick broken flowers in August, and the Euguene Levy/Samuel L Jackson teaming "The Man" due out labor day weekend.


Maybe I am just being negative, but it looks pretty bad right now.

"Be Back Soon"

Sorry for the lack of updates. Be back later this weekend with a few. So, keep checking back!

bad joke of the week

Its time for the BAAAAAAAAAAAAD Joke of the week.




Why did the man jump off the Empire State Building?
He wanted to make a hit on Broadway.

"Michael Bay to Direct Transformers Movie"

Dreamworks has announced that Michael Bay best known for pearl Harbor and Armegeddon will helm the Untitled Transfromers project. The director is hated by many for those two films alone. Neither which that I have seen.

However, since the cartoon was extremely fast paced and action packed full of explosions. I am sure that's what the film is going to be like, and thats Bay's trademark. Bay hit the big time while teaming up with Jerry Bruckheimer early in his career with crowd pleasers like The Rock, and Bad Boys. He returned two years ago to direct the Bad Boys sequel.

Bay's next film, The Ilsand is his first film not made with Bruckheimer. It is rumored to be a bit different than his typical fare. Perhaps that rumor is fueled soley by the casting of Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johanson.

Some people are pissed about Bay directing the Transformers film. However, from the studios point of view its a great choice. Everything he touches turns to gold. As long as they stay faithful to the characters and make their voices sound remotely simliar I will be happy. I am told Megatron will transform into a tank now, because they won't market a robot that turns into a gun anymore. Damn liberals.

"See Hillary Run"

A year ago or so when I was hearing and reading a lot that Hillary Clinton would try to make a bid for the White House in 2008, my friend Drew said to me, "Ah that's hogwash, only right wing people think she will actually run." Then I started searching my back for wings.


Anyone, as a former PR student I have an eye for when people are trying to change their image. Suddenly, Hillary Clinton is trying to act a little more to the right then she was. Also, many people who are democrats seem to think she is the front runner for the 2008 bid.

Now Drew, and the people that blew me off I can't imagine could really simply rule out this possibility. Whether or not shes going to get the nomination is another story. I thought it was a good idea for the Democrats before I saw Bush overcome Kerry, which I really didn't think was going to happen. If all those southern and mid-west states couldn't accept John Kerry, would they accept a woman president?

I don't mean to turn it into the battle of the sexes here. Although, I have friends who think that a female should never be in that position of power. However, the people in that part of the country are a bit more old fashioned, and you wonder if even if she's more qualified for the job then whoever she runs against that she will win less states than Kerry.

Is this a smoke screen? Or are the democrats going to put it all on the line like a poker game? Put all their chips and hope it pays off.

Speaking of John Kerry. Remember he kept saying "I have a plan!" during the election? When usually asked about it he said he had to vote for him to find out. Well seeing as where he is still technically getting paid to serve his country. Why not tell us what his kick-ass plan was? Perhaps it was all a bluff? If not why is he refusing to share this brain storm with the rest of the world.

"Tucker vs KYW"

For anyone that taped Survivor last night and didn't watch it for whatever reason. Don't read this!

Tucker is pissed, but first read the back story. I was actually going to slam them before tonight for simliar reasons.

So in the Philly/ South Jersey region Action News on Wpvi 6 (ABC affilate) has been the top rated local news show over and over again. Which is why they have such a slow turn over of talent. Action News is as Philly as the soft pretzel. Try as they might WACU 10 (NBC Affilate) and KYW 3 (CBS affilate) have not been able to kick WPVI's Action News off the hill. Okay NBC 10 won a sweeps period a few years ago. HOwever, usually the two channels are so far behind they end up fighting for 2nd place.

In the past few years KYW 3's Eye Whitness News as tried to marketself as the #1 show local news channel and tried to take on ACtion News. They even lured WPVI's veteran Marc Howard to their broadcast team which really gave them a shot in the arm. He has since moved to the evening broadcast.


Anyway, KYW 3 has taken full advantage of their highly rated CBS aired shows such as CSI. and Survivor the later is related to why this rant is here. Let me give you two shamless examples of KYW trying to get viewers of their shows afraid to flip to their prefered news show.


One was during sweeps recently. They promised bloopers of their talent. I thought that could be funny. SO I watched. Sadly, they weren't Bloopers. It was simply old footage of their talent working in other cities with bad hair and entry level jobs. Or Besley Resse dancing off camera. A few old commericals, and to top it all off their #1 was a Larry Mendte (their #1 Anchor) where he got his faced pissed in by is kid on the Dr. Phil show. But, it was fake piss, which means it was a skit, not a blooper.

The 2nd one was a few weeks ago when we all thought the Delware River Whale had gone out toe sea. They said "Sad News for Whale Watchers"; and the tone was serious. OF course the promo ran at top of the broadcast and we didn't learn if the whale had gone belly up or not till half way till Letterman. I actually fell for that one for like 3 minutes. I am ashamed.


Tonight, they really crossed a line. 15 mins into a already delayed Survivor they boasted having a contestant Stephanie's back story and family on the news tonight. The reason being shes a Philyl resident. Okay, what reason would they randomly decide to that if the show had not just started, or she won the million bucks a show that won't air for a a few more weeks. Well clearly, because she was voted off, and it turns out I was right. Anyone with even a quarter of a brain that wasn't out taking a whizz or making a sandwitch during that commerical set might as well turned off their tv.

So if your as pissed as I am. Or even pissed about the concept. Email the local affliate and rant to them! http://kyw.com/feedback/ Don't forget to say in your e-mail that you are going to just watch ACtion NEws now. That really chaps their ass. Larry Mendte also has a blog, so you can send him a message



Just thats just wrong. EYE WHITNESS NEWS>>>>>>>BANNED!

"The Rhode to Hate is Paved with Air"

My friend Drew went on a rant on his blog (the reason God invented blogs) about how some right wing leaning blog writers were saying they were glad a woman died. The woman was someone I had never heard of in my entire life, but apparently a well respected liberal of some sort. Drew said that it was MORE a right wing thing to be full of hate and what night. I respectfully disagreed. If anything I think the left wingers are more likely to resort to these type of bizarre hatred towards public figures they dislike and more likely to cheer them meeting the reaper.


Recently in the news something along those lines has happened. Of course you likely haven't heard about it since its getting less press than a Phantoms game. Randi Rhodes who hosts a show on Air America a liberal themed radio station had a skit on her show about the President getting shot. I guess the murder of the president of the United States gets some laughes with their target audience. Yeah, thats right the anti-gun people made those jokes. This is far worse than saying, I am glad so and so is dead. Both are pretty low class, but this skid is just flat otu messed up.

I didn't get to hear the actual skit, but have a transcript. Anyway, before you RUSH to judgment let me inform you that I often times actually listen to Air America. Although, not as much recently since the low singal comes in annoyingly bad in the some of the places I am during the day.

Rhodes has since said she was sorry about it, however I am sure she knew about it coming on. Then again shes such an awful radio show host that maybe she didn't. I mean professionally she has one of the worst shows I have ever heard. She rambles all over the map, comes off as just a total bitch, and sometimes her is so erratic you wonder if shes on drugs. I have heard much more polished college radio talk shows. I can't imagine if Sean Hannity had a skit with gunshots intended for John Kerry.

In addition to her having no idea what it takes to run a professional radio show, shes just awful. She spews hate for several hours. If I ever met her I would get a large sock fill it with quarters and whack her in the face with it.

So, anyway. The left wingers are more full of hate IMHO, and more likely to lower themselves to such awfulness. Oh, yeah the radio show is under a routine investigation.

"New Jersey Ghost Voices"

This link is to a page that contains (supposedly) audio of ghosts and some rather angry ones. These are tapes made my ghost investgators in New JErsey. So check it out. So waste your company's money and co-workers time. Or simply hog the computer lame so students can't get in to work on their finals.

Of course many of you might easily dimiss this stuff, however it doesn't mean that they can't be freaky or the very least entertaining.

Feel free to tip your blog writer on the way out.

"Bad Joke; Double Header

I have been really busy lately. So blogging has been light. Look for hopefully lots of updates late this weekend and through the weekend.

To throw my readers a bone who went almost a week without any thing new to read. Bad Joke Day will be a double header this week.


Why did the baker rob the bank?
He needed the dough.




What do you call a fly with no wings?
A walk.

"Super Sunday: The Look"

Here is a peak at the new Superman for the film due out next year. http://www.superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=2890

Also, there are rumors flying around that footage that Richard Donner shot with Marlon Brando for SUperman II will be used in this film. That is kind of out there so I am not sure I buy into that rumor.

Basically Superman and Superman II were shot at the same time. HOwever, production delays led them to just focus on the first one. After the first one was released Richard Donner (for reasons still mostly unknown) was fired. This caused a huge up roar from the cast.

Brando, was originally supposed to show up in the sequel even though he was only in the first film for 6 mins. He asked the producers for a share of the profits of the film and a more money, t hey said no. So, they couldn't use his scene. The scenes have been sitting somewhere in a vault for years. I would rather them be cleaned up and put back into Superman II though.

Oddly enough it would team up the late Brando with this On the Water Front Co-star.

"Bad Joke of the Week"

Why are pirates so popular?
They just arrrr.

"80"

For those of you who feared seeing any snow updates on this blog. This blogs for you. After last week with picture perfect weather, in addition to coldish night its going to feel a lot like summer. Its hitting 80 tomorrow (actually hit it today in some parts) and it will get even hotter on Weds. Some people think it could push 90!.

So, get out and buy me water ice and drop it by my house. The old crazy guy for Great Adventure is dancing on TV, lawn mowers are going, the odor of millions of grills and trips to the shore aren't far behind.

"Brocktoon"

I just love this SNL skit and saw it again recently on E!. I looked hard and long to find a link that would be able to provide the video of it, but came up empty handed. I did though find the transcript of it.

The skit was from the early 90's. It was when Tom Hanks hosted and his funny as hell in this skit. The link provides the actors who played in this skit. Including Phil Hartmen who delivered his lines really creepy, Chris Farely, Mike Meyers, and Tim Meadows.

The skit was about a group of people who are fans of the guy who played Mr. Belvedere on the late 80's sitcom. I laugh just reading the transcript of it. Needless to say the people who are at this meeting are a little off center. The exchange between Hanks and Farley is classic. ahttp://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91sbelvedere.phtml