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Australians can rejoice! We've finally got The Mighty Boosh on DVD for the low, low price of less than $20 from EzyDVD.

What is the Mighty Boosh? Here's a snip from an incredible episode that takes place in the Arctic tundra:

Buy the first season from EzyDVD!

The Mighty Boosh might be one of the most original and interesting comedy series in recent memory. The musical numbers are oddly comforting, the colours are vibrant and, most of all, it's surreal and hilarious. My girlfriend claims that it's humour for boys, but I'm sure there are legions of female Boosh fans.

Remember,

"Boosh, Boosh, stronger than a Moose"

...is the call for an adlibbed rap song in the Arctic Tundra. Go forth and purchase your box set. I'll see you there.

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The Hottest Comic Book Ladies that went for Wolverine

July 4th 2008 01:41

It's a stupid title, I know, and it's outrageous to even think that people spend time wondering about things like this.

Who slept with Wolverine? And how hot were they? Even though they're just in a comic book?

Unfortunately, I am this person. I like comic books, I like girls and I especially like girls in comic books.

I like them so much that I bought "Jungle Girl", a series solely about a knockout savage lady in prehistoric times that fights other savages and dinosaurs. She has a selection of fur bikinis.

It's a weakness, or a vice, or an Achilles Heel - but I like it.

That's why, when Bam Kapow came out with a "13 Hottest Women that Wolverine has Slept With", I didn't even hesitate before clicking. The girls, some of them, have those grossly inflated breasts and tiny waists that are so common in comic books, but that's easy to overlook.

I'll spoil it for you - #1 is Electra. I'm not sure what her appeal is, other than she has a hard personality, similar to Wolverine. It'd be hard for me to pick my #1, with such a variety of babes and super powers to pick from.

At the end of the day, though, none of these women are real. I know that, I think.

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Vox by Nicholson Baker

May 9th 2008 03:26

Vox by Nicholson Baker is an interesting novel, depicting a single phone-sex conversation between a man and a woman. It's this kind of bizarre scenario that give Vox its cult edge, putting it on bookshelves with Fight Club and Slaughterhouse 5.

Amitava Kumar wrote an insightful review of the book, expressing her appreciation for Baker's prose. From the review:

"The telephone here is not just a toy, though; it is emblematic of the crisis of sexuality today. The triumph of Vox is the literary canonization of safe sex. Instead of bodies touching, rubbing each other, exchanging diseases, we eavesdrop on the stimulating play of voices as they engage each other sexily and with humor.

Almost inevitably, Vox celebrates language and discovers feeling by reinventing words. Cliches are discarded, new words minted, and the particularity of experiences given shape through this poetry of remaking language."

I picked this book up for 50 cents from a small bookshop in Montreal. I used to pass it every morning, and I'd always scan the titles of the books that no one wanted, out on the bargain shelf. For 50 cents, you could take a risk on a book, even one that you'd never heard of, as Vox was to me.

Months later, a friend talked about the novel, praising it in front of a group of disinterested people. He bought it from Chapters, ostensibly for $24.95 or whatever the going price is for books these days. I marveled at the power of the written word - how both of us had access to the exact same work, at different ends of the cost spectrum.

Baker's writing is tinged with the modern hunger for cool. The two characters discuss masturbation and trade sex stories. As the reader, we get a voyeuristic look into a seedy discussion, which it probably why the novel is so enticing. Baker's idea of phone sex, though, is from another dimension, where both parties are remarkably intelligent and have too many interesting things to talk about.

Where are the awkward pauses, the facades, the silences? Are the necessary?

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Inspiration for Sci-Fi Movies

March 26th 2008 21:38

Star Wars AT Walker comparison to real life

Found on BoingBoing, this slick post from Io9, where the inspiration for some of the most influential sci-fi movies is nailed down.

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The Japanese Manga version of Star Wars is a violent, gritty affair...

March 18th 2008 04:19

Some would just say it's straight up better than the American comic book adaptation, which I had back in the 80s. Yeah, I liked my comic, but the colours were weird and the faces of the stars didn't really come out that well.

From starwars.com, a comparison of the Japanese manga version, to the original comic, including a critique of how the original made several flaws:
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The Forever War

March 6th 2008 01:08

Warning: this post contains spoilers of the plot of The Forever War!

The Forever War is #1 on the Orion SF Masterworks series, and it earns its place on the list by being a rich novel, deep in social commentary and originality

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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

February 6th 2008 08:10

What a bizarre novel! Yet it manages to captivate through sheer originality... this Phillip K. Dick novel is rarely mentioned, but it did win the Nebula Award for Best Novel in '65.

Dick was a master of creating tantalizing scenarios, universes that seemed so easy to translate to film, and this book is no different: in the future, Dick imagines an Earth that is overheating due to global warming, causing the booming human population to try and colonize other planets in the Solar System

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I, Robot

January 10th 2008 08:27

You know it as the movie with the guy from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Not, not DJ Jazzy Jeff.

But! I, Robot was originally a collection of nine short stories by notable sci-fi author Isaac Asimov, one of the writers that put serious thought into aliens, robots and faraway planets

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

December 27th 2007 02:31

Bleak and depressing, The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel written by Cormac McCarthy about a man and his son walking through the ruins of human civilization.

It's a magnetically compelling read... the disaster that is responsible for the downfall of society is unnamed and left to the reader's imagination. We think, nuclear bomb? Asteroid? Zombies

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Day of the Triffids

October 18th 2007 02:49

It's been a long time since I've read a book so maniacally that I've stayed up late to finish reading it. My normal reading habits are to have a slow, controlled burn right before bed, the act of reading propelling me into smoky, gasoline-scented dreams.

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