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Wednesday, August 29, 2001
This is pretty cool. The New York Times published a comic by Kevin Smith telling the story of how he met his wife and the story of their first kiss.
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Monday, August 27, 2001
What lies between real science and junk science? It's the Borderlines of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense, a new book by professional skeptic Michael Shermer.
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Sunday, August 26, 2001
Time for Laaz's review of MacHomer. I had no idea what to expect except that I knew it was MacBeth done with the Simpsons character's sitting in for MacBeth and his zany cast of characters. But it turns out that it's just this one guy jumping from voice to voice doing the play up there on stage all by himself, but abridged to about 45 mintes of just the highlights. And he does just about every character that's ever been on the show. Truly an impressive feat. Also, he's got a screen behind him which has some video cues to help you follow what's going on. Like each time a new character is introduced, his/her picture appears on the screen. So after the murder of Duncan (played by Mr. Burns) when the drunk porter comes on stage for a little comic relief, you see Krusty on screen with the caption "drunk porter" and suddenly the guy goes "uuuuuhhhhhhhhhh" like Krusty with a headache. The crowd loved that one. It's very impressive how this guy leaps from voice to voice. Not all of them are spectacular, but enough of them are. Also, he doesn't just recite lines, he adds stuff to them that fits the characters. For instance, he re-writes MacBeth's famous "Is this a dagger I see before me" solliloquy as the following "Is this a dagger I see before me?" (slowly the dagger floating on screen behind him blurs until it begins to look sort of like...) "or... a slice of pizza?" Or how about this one... Krusty, after doing some of his actual Shakesperean lines says something like "Uuuuhhh, I got nuttin' ta work with here." Funny stuff. So, I would recommend it. The only bad parts were that a) his microphone battery blew in the middle of the show and there was a very long, very awkward pause while he searched for a replacement. But he played it off as part of the MaBeth curse and got a good laugh out of it. And B) he was having serious problems with his voice and bailed out of a bit he had planned on doing which was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody done in the voices of 25 famous rock stars. It was actually pretty unprofessional, he just stopped after about five seconds, said "nah, it's not gonna happen" and kinda just left. But I can understand, he was probably really embarassed and frustrated, so I can't really fault him for the way he left. But still, it would've been nice of him to say he was sorry or something.Bottom line, I think Fox should buy this from him and run it as a one-hour Halloween special It would be fantastic.
"Stupid Banquo."
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