Read today that Jessica Biel might be in the new Thor movie, playing either Sif or the Enchantress.  Either one is good by me.  Other rumors are that the movie will be almost entirely set in Asgard.  Of course, movie houses have been know to lie a bit here and there to gather some momentum, so we’ll see.  Either way, I have high hopes for this, but it’s a far cry from making a movie about a guy with an iron suit.  Also, Stan the Man will get his cameo as an asgardian.  Cool!

now this is a viking woman!

well, hot on the heels of the mini mac, comes the iphone.  Since I was cellphone-challenged, I decided to go for it and get the iphone.  so far, i must say I am impressed. 

Apple has hit it out of the park again.  To me, one of the things that is cool is that it’s an American product.  Sure it’s put together in china, but it was conceived and designed in good ol’ USA.

Gonna have fun playing with this toy!

yeah, i finally bought a mac. I actually bought it for the wife, since it’s in the spot where she will use it the most.  I bought a mini mac, in my opinion the best buy for the money in the apple line, especially since i already had a 23 inch monitor to go with it.

it’s cool.  While it’s really not that different from a windows machine, (after all, windows was stolen from apple which was stolen from xerox), it really does have a lot of advantages.

anyway, had to make my first post with it

Had a blast hitting a ton of spots in vegas, some not so well-known.  glad to see it’s getting it’s edge back, and also glad to see the many places advertsing 2-3 dollar blackjack.  Hey, how are you going to get new players into the game if all you have are 10 buck tables?  We hit some hotels/casinos that I never had been in before.  The most impressive was probably M, which looks like a high-class joint catering to the money from LA.  The Cannery was also more impressive than I thought, albeit for a different clientel. (sp?).

But the most fun of the trip was the visit(s) to the Gold Spike, which used to be a complete dump.  The hottie box there was the most fun of the trip.

well, a director the caliber of branagh is a great sign, I gotta believe that the whole reason he took it is because he is familiar with the marvel character.

I think they really need to play up the whole “don blake finds the mystic cane/hammer” and brings the thunder god to life, as part of odin’s plan to teach his son some humility.  We’ll see.  This one is so far out, it will be much tougher to bring to the screen than spidey,  or iron man.   Like the new hulk, if it gets direction from someone who really cares about the character, and that battling/fighting is the core of all these comics, it could be great!

Yeah, I know I’m behind the times.  Recently I decided to get an xbox live gold account and try it out.  So I bought a card for 3 months, (and got 13 months!) and started GOW multiplayer.  Wow!  Talk about not knowing what I was missing….LOL.  I am now firmly addicted, counting the minutes until I get out of work so I can play. Annex is my fav right now, probably because of the infinite respawns.

Just saw it, like a few million other people or so around the world.

Excellent is all I can say.  It’s very evident the care and time that went into making this. Sure, you can quibble about the adamantium bullets, or other stuff they put in there to deal with the “memory issues.”  but it really does a nice job of showing why he is the way he is, and giving the characters some motivation for what they do.

Yeah, it’s a comic book movie, but I think it really stands on it’s own as just A MOVIE.  Congrats to Jackman, he really did it right.

Looking forward to the new movie.  Reviews are good, surprisingly.  Gotta hand it to Jackman.  That man knows how to get in shape!

I was never a huge wolvie fan, the whole idea of having unbreakable claws was always seemed pretty…weird to me.  Not that being able to climb walls like a spider or turn your body into flame isn’t.  It’s just the idea of those claws and how they would rip pretty much anyone apart.  Ah well….that’s the fun of comics.

I’ve been pretty addicted all of a sudden to playing Gears of War on Xbox live.  I finally broke down and bought a 3 month card (and it turned out they gave me 13 months for it, anyone know what the catch is?)

Took my boy and his buddy to Monsters vs. Aliens.  We saw the preview, and it was pretty obvious that it was right up my alley, with all of the characters and references pretty familiar to a 46 yr-old sci fi/comic/fantasy/horror fan.

The Blob.  a pretty scarey movie for a 10 yr old.

Mothra.  a “good” monster.  I kept waiting for the little japanese girls to start singing ” moooooooooothaaaaaaaaaaaaaaraaaaaaaaaa”.

Creature from the Black Lagoon.  still one of  the classics.

The Fly.  Vincent Price.  Jeff Goldblum.  Dr. Coackroach.

Attack of the 50-foot Women.  Every man’s nightmare. LOL

I enjoyed it.