A robot that zoomed along through the hallways of a modern shopping mall used to just be the stuff of FANTASY and LEGEND. "It will never happen," the politicians and naysayers used to say (and naysay?). Well guess what, politicians... CONTINUE READING HEY HOLLYWOOD, NOW THAT KILLBOTS ARE REAL, HOW ABOUT RELEASING CHOPPING MALL ON DVD?»
Posted on July 23, 2009 in
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Tags: Chopping Mall | Robot Uprising | Robots | Shopping
This is ugh log10 to the YIKES power. From Shanghai Daily: A 14-YEAR-OLD boy drank gasoline for five years to obtain "energy" - just as his idols "Bumble Bee" or "Optimus Prime" do in "Transformers," the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis... CONTINUE READING KIDS DRINK GASOLINE TO BECOME A TRANSFORMER THE DARNDEST THINGS»
Posted on July 21, 2009 in
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Tags: Children | China | Gasolina | Robot Uprising | Transformers
It's a late night. You're driving home from a cocktail party, or a rotary meeting, or something. Your wife frantically demands that you pull over. You hate when she gets this excitable without explaining why, but you pull the car... CONTINUE READING THIS AIN'T YOUR FATHER'S SHORT CIRCUIT, GRANDPA!»
Posted on June 4, 2009 in
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Tags: Ally Sheedy | Dan Milano | Johnny 5 | Robot Uprising | Short Circuit
Back in the mid-90s, when I was just entering my late 40s (right after my first divorce), my dad picked me up from a movie theater in Chicago where I had just seen a Saturday matinee with a friend. On... CONTINUE READING THE VIDEOGUM MOVIE CLUB: TERMINATOR: SALVATION»
Posted on May 26, 2009 in
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Tags: Apocalypse | Christian Bale | McG | Robot Uprising | Sam Worthington | Terminator: Salvation
OK, I'm going to vote now. Let's hope that my greatest fear doesn't come true: Just kidding. That's not my greatest fear. You win again, SHARKS WITH HUMAN ARMS.... CONTINUE READING 1000101010111101000100 THE VOTE!»
Posted on November 4, 2008 in
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Tags: Election 2008 | Robot Uprising
