Buy Nothing Day

I've recently been looking up information about Cyber Monday, which is the Monday after Thanksgiving. It's like Black Friday, but with online sites. Usually it's bad sales... hopefully that changes this year. Wiki recommended something called Buy Nothing Day, which is also on Black Friday.

Basically it's what you would suspect... don't shop. It's a form of protest duh! I wanted to go over the ways of people celebrating this day.

Credit card cut up: So you sit in a mall and cut up credit cards. How many credit cards are there to last a protest? About 3... seriously though, what person has a credit card, when you're against over shopping?

Rating: Ineffective!

Zombie Walk: Quote Wiki "Participant ‘zombies’ wander around shopping malls or other consumer havens with a blank stare and marvel at the expressionless faces of the shoppers. When asked what they are doing participants describe Buy Nothing Day and explain its foundational principles." When I go to Wal-Mart I find this type of person in the store at all times... never thought it was a protest, I just thought they were stupid. Also, if you've ever played Left 4 Dead... zombies don't survive that long... and only against 4 people!?

Rating: Ineffective!

Whirl-mart: Quote Wiki "Participants silently steer their shopping carts around a shopping mall or store in a long, baffling conga line without putting anything in the carts or actually making any purchases." Like I said in the Zombie Walk... I always see this at Wal-Mart!

Rating: Ineffective, and you're being a jerk to others.

Buy Nothing Day hike: "Rather than celebrating consumerism by shopping, participants celebrate the earth and nature." Wait! Not buying anything? Checked! Not bothering anyone? Checked! Getting exercise? Checked! Finally something that might not get the word out, but no one will end up hitting you with a full shopping cart full of Blu-Ray players!

Rating: Sadly ineffective, but hey look at the bright side, you're helping nature and you're not a jerk.

Thoughts on Little Big Planet on PSP

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It's been a long time since I've taken out the PSP to play anything. To turn things around, I recently recieved Little Big Planet, so I had to take the PSP out of it's hiding place. Little Big Planet (LBP) puts you in the role of a sack guy or gal... yes a potato sack. You then find people around the planet to help out. They hand you their problems and off you go.

Pros: LBP is a platform game, that is really well done. It's a pretty easy game, and a real blast to play. You do come across puzzles that are also fun to play through. There are a lot of collectibles to gather, so it will take you some time to complete the game 100%. The music might be strange, but most of the time it fit well with the game... you can always turn it off if you don't like it. You can also download levels and make your own.

Cons: Very short game, it took me 2 to 3 hours to beat all the story levels. Jumping can be a pain when you're climbing stairs. It's really nice to be able to customize your character, but I would rather have more levels to play than a ton of character options.

Final Say: The game is great, but the price of $40 might be asking for to much. Even though there is an opportunity to have as many downloadable levels as you want, put it on the rent list, or wait till the price drops down a little more. This is a game you'll want to play.

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Black Friday

So you're getting some good deals on "Stuff" today on Black Friday? Some people don't like getting up at 3 in the morning to spend some money. That's why I'm recommending you go play Company of Myself. It's free, and you don't have to wake up at 3 in the morning to play it.

Even if you do wake up that early... you can still push your new things to the side and play this game.

John Mayer's "Battle Studies" Review

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where you can give this whole album one free listen

Artist: John Mayer
Album: Battle Studies
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Tracks: 11
Runtime: 46:23

Track Rundown:

1) “Heartbreak Warfare” – This is a song that has some really huge potential to it. It’s got the “it factor” to make it onto a NOW That’s What I Call Music album, and maybe other compilation albums that years from now, others will look back on and understand the musical traits of our generation. 5 *’s out of 5.

2) “All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye” – There was nothing really grabbing about this song. It was pretty much just filler. 2 ½ *’s.

3) “Half of My Heart” (With Taylor Swift) – I was surprised with the lack of Taylor Swift on this track. I think she mostly just played guitar with John Mayer, but there was a dire lack of duetting in this duet. 2 *’s due to the let down.

4) “Who Says” – The first single of the album, and it’s very folksy and meaningful. It’s really rather beautiful in its simplicity, but compared to Heartbreak Warfare, I’d actually prefer that track than this one. Still, 5 *’s because it’s very hypnotic.

5) “Perfectly Lonely” – This one is practically straight from the fifties or sixties. It’s got a soulful, bluesy, soft doo-wop kind of sound to it, and that’s right up my alley. The more I listened to this track, the more infectious it was. 5 *’s.

6) “Assassin” – There was kind of an oriental ninja culture vs. Rafiki from The Lion King clash in this song, which made for a very interesting mix. I have no idea if the mix was working or not, but it wasn’t an awful song. Certainly seemed like he was singing about Ninjas. 3 *’s for creativity.

7) “Crossroads” – CREAM COVER! Major points. It’s a very modern interpretations of the song. The electric, autotune trumpet sound wore a little thin, but the guitar riffs were sexy. John Mayer did the vocals justice as well. 5 *’s, but mainly because I know the original song. People who aren’t familiar with the source may not appreciate this as much.

8) “War of My Life” – Nothing inspiring. Seemed like filler, just trying to beef up the run time. Nothing offensive, but completely skippable. 2 *’s.

9) “Edge of Desire” - An emotional, meaningful song, but kind of lacking in the music department. Mayer doesn’t seem to take any risks in this song and it shows for the worse. 2 ½ *’s.

10) “Do You Know Me” – If the TV show Scrubs were going longer, I’d say this song belongs on their soundtrack. It seems perfectly suiting for an emotional, patient-just-died-or-is-dying, kind of scene. 4 *’s – not skippable, but probably not your favorite on the album.

11) “Friends, Lovers or Nothing” – This song takes the risks that Edge of Desire was evidently lacking. It involved piano, some beautiful guitar riffs, and a strong point to the song. I’d say it has a viable chance to get radioplay, but if not, it would make for a worthy hidden gem to those who buy the album instead of just the singles. 4 ½ *’s.

My Highlights:

"Heartbreak Warfare" as the first track of the album sets the bar very high, the first single of the album, "Who Says" may match it, but "Perfectly Lonely" is really a great track as well. And if you like Cream and Eric Clapton, you might want to check out John Mayer's cover of "Crossroads".

Overall Rating:

Averaging all the ratings, we get a 3.68 *’s, which I round to 3 ¾ *’s out of 5, or 7.5 out of 10. I’m a fan of John Mayer, and he certainly had some great tunes on this album, but in an overall spectrum, things seemed kind of hit and miss. Regardless, this would make a great gift for someone with the upcoming holiday season coming up, and it’d a pretty good chill-out album.

Thoughts on Scribblenauts

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Scribblenauts is a creative game that uses a giant dictionary of words. You control your character, and come up with ways to reach Starites. One of the first levels is to get a starite that is on top of a tree. Using your brain, think up a word... toilet! Now have your man throw the toilet at the top of the tree. Ta Da! The starite is on the ground and you can pick it up. Trust me though, the levels get much harder.

Using different objects throughout the game will give you more points/money to purchase new levels. The levels will get frustrating though, and this will cause you to use a helicopter to reach great heights, or even a jet pack. Doing this over and over won't get you many points, and won't be as fun in the long run.

The biggest complaint I have, and everyone else that has played this game has, is the controls. Using your stylus to control this man, he will often have seizures and go crazy. There are levels that have trip wires, that activate a beam locking off a part of the level. So while I'd try my best to avoid that, many times I would hit the touch pad and my guy would go crazy and trip it! What is this guy's problem!?

Final Say: I loved this game at first, but as it got harder I couldn't bare the man going crazy. The game would be perfect if the controls were better. It's to bad that bad controls could ruin this great idea of a game. I hope there is a sequel, and I hope there is better controls, but for now I have to say, wait till this game is much cheaper before spending $30 on it.

Monsters vs. Aliens Review

Premise:
In this animated Dreamworks film, Reese Witherspoon voices Susan, a normal girl about to marry the love of her life, when a meteor falls from the sky and strikes her. The radiation from the meteorite makes Susan grow fifty feet tall, which ruins her wedding day, but a very observant Government quickly snatches Susan up and throws her in a prison with The Missing Link, BOB, Dr. Cockroach, and Insectosaurus voiced by Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie and Conrad Vernon respectively. Life is the blues for these monsters, until the government needs them to ward off the scary space alien threat, Gallaxhar, voiced by Rainn Wilson.



Standouts:
One thing stands out more than anything, and that's the casting! I only mentioned half of the recognizable names in the premise! Here's some more you may know:

• Amy Poehler as Gallaxhar's Computer
• Kiefer Sutherland as General Warren. R. Monger
• Stephen Colbert as President Hathaway
• Paul Rudd as Derek Dietl: A local weatherman and Susan's ex-fiancé
• Renée Zellweger as Katie
• John Krasinski as Cuthbert: Katie's prudish nerdy boyfriend.
• Ed Helms as News Reporter

Highlights:
Anything involving Stephen Colbert as the simple-minded President of the United States. Who loves his guns, and Beverly Hills Cop.


Overall Rating:
I got everything I expected from this film and then some. It exceeded my expectations. I don't know if its a children's movie with a couple of adult jokes thrown in, like BOB (Seth Rogen) thinking Susan is a boy because she has "boobies", or if I just can identify with a child's sense of humor, but this film was perfect. 5 *'s out of 5.


When You Should See It:
You don't need to wait until you have children present, or birth offspring yourself, go rent this movie now. Put it at the top of your Queue right now if you love Toy Story or The Lion King. Granted, this movie is a little less "serious" but not every great kids movie needs to have a moment that they'll grow up remember crying during.

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Poor Musafa :-(

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: Scurge: Hive

System: Nintendo DS
Rating: E
Paid: $5
Story: For the longest time I saw Scurge: Hive on clearance at Gamestop. From the cover and back cover the game looks like an RPG, so that's what I went into this game thinking it was. I was wrong.

Review: Scurge: Hive puts you in the role of Jenosa who is a bounty hunter. You end up getting a virus and this plays into the gameplay. You have the regular health bar, but you also have a percent bubble at the top. It starts at 1% and slowly goes to 100%, this is how much medicare you have. If it reaches 100% your health will start dropping. To keep your percentage as low as you can, you have to go around searching for sick bays, when you reach one it will refill your health, and bring the percent back to one (also save your game). Killing enemies will give you exp. and enough exp. will make you level up. So it does have some RPG elements to it.

You're moving around in what seems to be a spaceship, but I don't really know where you are. Moving from sick bay to sick bay, you're searching for a cure and carrying out your mission. Your weapon is a gun which is upgradeable throughout the game. You also have this grappling hook type gun, to drag objects around.

As everyone I've seen put it, the map is basically taken from a Metroid game. Is that a bad thing? No it's not, take something that worked for a game and make it work in yours, and that's what they did to Scurge: Hive. Also the music is also a similar tone as Metroid... also not bad.

The puzzles and action brought into this game are great, but the biggest complaint about the game was the method to shoot. In the beginning I had the hardest time shooting things. You use the directional pad to shoot, and there is a section between right and diagonal right, that enemies would be in and I would have to move to be able to shoot them. So this took some time to get use to. Even so, if there is a squeal (doubt it, but could happen) they should fix this.

Final Say: Once I overcame my issue with the movements, I got really into this game. I had a great time playing through all the puzzles and action this game delivers. I think $5 is a great deal for this game, and think it should have gotten a little more attention from people.

Hint: When you're playing through Scurge: Hive make sure to do a little grinding (leveling up) early in the game. Also, kill all the enemies in each room to level up. This game doesn't require much of any grinding, but it does help in the beginning.

Twilight Tops Dark Knight

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new film, Twilight: New Moon has broken the opening-day box office record, previously held by The Dark Knight. I'm not going to play naive and play it off as though The Dark Knight should never have been beaten in any record it ever set, but I will lay some interesting facts on you.

The Dark Knight earned huge bundles of cash in every revenue, and revolutionized what a comic book movie could be. People may have been drawn in by The Joker, or the evolution of Harvey Dent, but they got an inspirational, awe-inspiring epic tale. It was well received as well, with Rotten Tomatoes still holding it preciously at 94%.

New Moon has so-far beaten the opening-day record, and is more socially acceptable to go see than a comic book based film. Edward, the emo vampire having a tiff with Jacob, the shirtless Teen-Wolf wonder boy, over the heart of generic female Bella. New Moon has received awful-to-mediocre ratings. The un-critical, probably readers of the book, seemed to leave the movie pleased and entertained, but those who know cinema were anything but. Rotten Tomatoes gave New Moon a 30%, with criticisms such as drawn out, unimportant scenes and entire plot points, needless dialog, and a cacophony of references to the next film, or moments only readers of the book would understand.

The opening day box office record before Batman was Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Everyone sat through two and half hours of Jar Jar Binks to see Anakin Skywalker finally become Darth Vader, and then give some majorly over-dramatized cries. So the record went from crappy movie, to awesome movie, to crappy movie? Pattern perhaps? Maybe we'll find out in 2010 when Iron Man 2 comes out.

TV Review: Starcade

Trying something new today, with a TV show review of Starcade.



Link to Starcade episodes

USB Movies

There is talk of a new movie rental service called Digiboo. What makes this different from Redbox, Netflix or any walk-in rental store is the USB connection. For $3.50 to $5.50 you get a USB flash drive with the movie of your choice for 3 days. Wait... only 3 days? Doesn't Redbox do a dollar a day? Meaning that if both machines are next to each other, are you going to pick the one dollar a day/ three dollars for 3 days or the 3 days for $3.50?

Also mentioned is the library of 1,000 movies offered. If this is the future, I hope they plan on adding a giant database of movies at least. Redbox is stuck with a certain amount of movies in each vending machine. That's because DVDs take up space, but when the movies become software and no longer have that problem, the future might be bright. That's if we get a giant library to choose from. Also if there is a giant library and they have more than Redbox, then that makes the higher price worth it.

I could say just get an account from Netflix, or even DvdAvenue. That's only for movie people like myself. I know there are people that just don't have the time to watch movies. So when the time does pop up that they can, they need a solution, that's why Redbox is a great idea.

TV Show, Community Review

What have you been watching Thursday nights at 8:00 PM? Well here's what you should be watching - Community. Everything about this comedy based upon the foibles of a community college just works. The main focus of the show is Jeff Winger, played by Joel McHale, known mostly for hosting The Soup. Teaming with Joel McHale is the incomparable Chevy Chase, and Donald Glover of Derrick Comedy fame. And in some episodes you get John Oliver, the British news correspondent from The Daily Show, and Dr. Ken from The Hangover as an arbitrary Asian man teaching Spanish.

But here's a small taste of the awesomeness of this show.

LolCat Bible

I'm not sure if this is a bad idea... or the GREATEST IDEA EVER!! The Bible... plus Lolcats is to be great and of course I will have to buy it. At first I thought it was a joke, but Ulysses Press is actually publishing it.

Who will be playing the devil? Of course that would be Basement Cat! With many of the lolcat phrashes this book should be epic, but will a whole book of lolcats be to much? The answer is no, of course not.

Other books that should be translated into lolcats? Lolita for a start. The dictionary, Old man and the Sea, Moby Dick, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... you know what!? Every book should be translated!

I hope you all go out and buy this when it comes out, because I know I sure will.

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: ChuChu Rocket

Title: ChuChu Rocket
System: Sega Dreamcast
Rating: E



Script: Welcome to the Clearance bin video game review, by Organized Remains. Let’s take a look at ChuChu Rocket for the Sega Dreamcast. This is going to cost you $7. Let me mention that I’ve just recently received a Sega Dreamcast, so I have been searching for the best games to have in my collection. That’s when I ran into ChuChu Rocket.

To read from the back of the case, “Lead your mice to their get-away rockets before your rivals can sneak the scary space cats on board!” Ok? What is that suppose to mean? The old game of cat and mouse is in play. You’re playing field is this board with walls posted around. You can set down arrows to guide your mice to the get-away rockets. You have to be careful of the cats though, because if one gets into the rocket, you will lose a third of your mice. There are also holes in the ground you have to be careful of.

The main part of this game is playing against three other people or computers. This is just chaos for anyone new to this game. There are cursers moving everywhere, things happening across the board, millions of mice running around, it’s just overwhelming. First one to win three rounds wins. This game will take a lot of practice to get good at, I have the computers at weak and I’m doing very poorly.

There is also a stage challenge, which gives you a goal that you have to complete in a time limit. That can be: get the mice to the rockets, to feed the cat 50 mice. This gives you a lot of variety to different kinds of games. There is also a puzzle mode, where you get a limited amount of arrows and have to get the mice to the rocket, which is also fun to play. They even have a puzzle editor for the people that want to make their own. I tried it, and let’s just say I will stick to the puzzles that the creators made.

Final Say: ChuChu Rocket is great for the multiplayer, but when playing by yourself, it can be somewhat of a letdown. The game did feature an online mode back in its day. So if you got yourself some Dreamcast controllers and some gamer friends, then this game will be fun. If you have some casual gaming friends, they might hate the chaos that goes on, but no one wants to play with them anyway. $7 + gamer friends = Fun times, while $7 + no friends =not so much because the puzzles do go by fast.

Away We Go Review

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Premise:
Burt (Jim Halpert AKA John Krasinski) is dating Verona (Maya Rudolph of SNL fame), and the two are set to have a baby. Unfortunately, their currently living in a meak, heatless apartment, because it's nearby to Burt's parents, who break the news within the first few minutes of the film that their moving to Germany. This leaves Burt and Verona without a support system, and no reason to stay located in a run-down apartment, when they could move anywhere they want. So where do they go? That's for them to figure out, but away they'll go!


Standouts:
The main thing that stuck out at me, and is really my only complaint, is that while Burt and Verona appear to not be able to afford a decent apartment, they can easily fly all over North America to experiment with different locations and see if they would like to live there. But that's a real nit-picking point. The next thing that stood out to me was kind of a neutral matter, the fact the conflict didn't seem that dire. The movie focuses primarily about Burt and Verona's fears about parenthood, but the birth of the child, nor epiloge years later are never shown. The only main plot point and driving force, is where are they going to live? Well at worst, they could just not move, or move to a better place near the place they were living. Regardless of the Napoleon Dynamite levels of "this is just a long series of events without rhyme or reason" it's a long series of entertaining and quirky events. I laughed out loud through quite a bit of this movie, and the casting was done wonderfully. Jim Halpert = awesome.


Highlights:
Jim Gaffigan cameo appearance, and Burt trying to raise the baby's heart rate through humiliation of Verona. There's also a scene involving a stroller that's either one of the meanest and most awkward things to watch, or the most hilarious scenes ever.


Overall Rating:
Due to the high, high levels of entertainment, the non-stop laughs and how well the movie made you feel for the characters and their plight, I give this movie 4 *'s out of 5. I've seen a lot of romantic comedies, both good and bad, and without a doubt, this is one of the better ones I've seen. It's not a chick flick, it's just about parenthood, relationships, and trying to live up to your potential.


When You Should See It:
If you're a big fan of The Office, go out and rent this right away. Anyone who knows The Office knows that it got big off of one thing - Jim and Pam. Well this is an hour and a half of Jim's quirky, dorky, relatable fun in a relationship. If you don't know who Jim Halpert is, and don't watch The Office, then save this movie for a romantic night in witha lover. As far as enjoyable movies for both sexes go, this is a must-rent, at one point or another.

Craig Ferguson Crushes Jimmy Fallon

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According to The Live Feed, Craig Ferguson's "Late Late Show" defeated Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" in a multi-month long, neck-and-neck ratings war. This is huge news to anyone who's watched the two shows before. Ferguson is the dark horse of the late night broadcasting, working with (at least appearing, though it may just be a running gag) a slim budget and a shoddy studio, while Jimmy Fallon comparatively looks like NBC's golden child. Fallon's show has a lot of special effects, different gags, and great production values, while Ferguson looks like he spent all of his money on his opening credits and maybe some left-over money to bring in fashion consultant Tim Gunn for his Aquaman skits. So Kudos to Craig Ferguson, who has always been a preferred pick of the two here at Organized Remains. Fallon's budget results in a lot of sizzle with not a lot of steak, meanwhile Ferguson is doing better with less. Imagine what Ferguson could do with more!

Bored: Ball on a String

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Are you bored of the new Call of Duty? No dedicated servers leaving you bummed? Have you found yourself on the computer bored? Are you making boxes out of the highlight dotted lines when you click and drag on your desktop? Now are you highlighting certain icons on the desktop over and over? Maybe right clicking on the desktop and seeing how long it takes to load the right click menu?

Well fear no more, because there is Ball on a String! The official Call of Duty killer! Featuring a line, a ball, and your cursor. Try to click the ball, if you do it successfully it will change colors. Why is this game so addictive? It's so simple, it's like that ball in a cup (pictured above). Ok you can cheat, if you press tab which highlights the ball, and then hit enter, you can see all the colors! What's the fun in that though?

What I would like to see from here is some way to have an option for this on my computer. So if I'm bored highlighting things, I can right click and select Ball on a String, and play all I want.

Kick-Ass, The Movie

2010 is going to be the big return of Super Heroes to cinema. While 2009 languished with only X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Watchmen (the latter of which I can attest is excellent), 2010 has a handful of films, many with little name-value but look pretty good. The first name to the list, coming out May 7 is Iron Man 2, but that gets enough publicity on it's own. June 18 is supposed to mark a possible Supernatural western film starring Josh Brolin and Megan Fox - Jonah Hex. Details on that film are still sketchy to say the least, but another film, who's current release date is unknown, but stars Woody Harrelson is Defendor. Defendor is not an actual comic book film, but is a Don Quixote inspired, crazy-person dawns an extreme persona and tries to save the day kind of Super Hero film.

By and large, the greatest Super Hero movie coming out next year not named Iron Man 2 has GOT to be Kick-Ass! Heck, it's got McLovin! And it's hitting theaters earlier than Iron Man 2, at an April 16 date.

Thoughts on Kirby: Canvas Curse

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This game of Kirby: Canvas Curse for the DS has stayed on the low side of the radar since it came out. You can control Kirby by tapping on him, and using the stylus to create a line that Kirby will follow, and to attack enemies. Taping an enemy will stun them and depending on which enemy, Kirby will gain their ability. This follows the same formula from basically every Kirby game ever made.

The rainbow line and touch screen is what gives this game something different. Drawing this line can get very frustrating though. The wost part of the game were the underwater levels. It was a very big pain to control Kirby, and was too frustrating to handle.

In the beginning levels, using the rainbow line to guide Kirby to the end of the level was fun, but as the levels got harder there were many different turns. Which I didn't mind, you just had to get used to drawing the stylus from the right to the left. It was frustrating to learn, but after a little time you get pretty good at it.

Final Say: The water parts of the game gave are what left the bad taste in my mouth. This game can be considered a hidden gem for the DS, but if they just got rid of the water levels I would have enjoyed it so much more. Besides that, I found this game to be fun, and it's too bad one downside can put such a burden on the game. For the Kirby fans, this is a game worth checking out, but for the people that have never played any Kirby games, check out some other Kirby games first.

Katt Williams Arrested - Pimpin' Ain't Easy

According to a news report from CNN, Comedian and actor Katt Williams has been arrested for breaking and entering, and burglary. Williams is best known for his comedy stand-up specials, The Pimp Chronicles, and American Hustle, as well as a few bit parts in movies. The best part of this news, is how obscenely ridiculous it all is. Williams himself could not even help but make light of the situation, flashing a big toothy smile for his mugshot.

An employee of record producer, Barry Hankerson, called the police on Katt Williams for reportedly breaking into Hankerson's home with a crowbar and stealing $3,500 worth of jewlery.

So here's why this is stupid, according to Williams and his lawyer. 1) Williams was an invited guest to Hankerson's home while he was shooting a movie. 2) Williams' lawyer said it best about the jewlery stolen, "Mr. Williams wears more than that in jewelry on his person,". 3) The employee who called the police even had to make a fool of himself by arguing with Williams before calling in the crime. This means he didn't know Williams was staying there, didn't know who he was, and didn't believe any part of his story.

This whole "misunderstanding", located in Georgia, reminds me a lot of the South Park episode, "The Jeffersons". The police in South Park make an avid attempt to frame and arrest famous black celebrities. When the main police sargent thinks that Michael Jackson, their attempted frame-victim is actually an innocent WHITE man, he's so disgusted with himself he questions his entire career. But this article really writes itself.

Aliens Versus Ninjas

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Aliens Versus Ninjas... is a movie coming out. Well hopefully when it comes out it's epic, but this is what I think is going to happen.



Do I need to say anything else?

Michael Bay's Next Project About Ouija Boards

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According to Geeks of Doom, Hollywood is resorting to board games now for inspiration for films. We've transcended past remakes of older films and films based off of toy lines, we're down to story-less board games. Michael Bay's production company, Platinum Dunes, best known for its spewing out a slew of horror film remakes during this decade, will be creating a Ouija movie. The writers brought on board for this project are best known for their work on Lost. So if we connect the dots, this movie is likely to feature broads with no personality and high budget special effects, with incredibly complex and confusing twists at every turn. And ghosts.

Also in development! Monopoly, Stretch Armstrong, Battleship and Candy Land! Stay tuned!

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: Skate It

Title: Skate It
System: Wii
Rating: E


Script: Welcome to the Clearance Bin Video Game Review by Organized Remains. Skate It for the Wii is the game we’re playing today. We found it at Gamefly for $8.

Let me start out saying that I loved Skate 1 and 2, so this lead me to Skate It. I started out making my character, and boy was that awful. There were only a couple of options compared to the other Skate games. Oh well, it’s not about what the player looks like, it’s about the game. Usually I don’t whine about graphics in a game, but come on! Skate 1 and 2 looked beautiful. Sure Skate It is on the Wii, but that doesn’t mean it has to have Gamecube graphics.

Skate offers three different ways of controlling your skater: Wii balance board, nun chuk, and just the Wiimote. I went with just the Wiimote, because I thought it would be the easiest to control. Which brings me to the controls of this game. I know the Skate series tries to be more realistic than other skateboarding games, but when it comes to the Wiimote, it’s just awful. Doing a 360 was impossible for me! He just wouldn’t spin! I couldn’t even imagine playing this game with a Wii balance board, I would probably end up smashing the board in anger.

The story of the game is about a storm that hits California and leaves the place in a wreck. You end up going back to check out skating opportunities. Pro skaters then end up asking you to check out their places to see if their ok. It’s actually a pretty good idea of a story, and probably the only plus to this game.

Final Say: Graphics: bad, Controls: really bad, Music: could be better, Do you really want to skate to this? The game offers a free skate and a two-player mode. Sadly you probably won’t be able to convince anyone to play Skate It with you. $8 is not worth the anger, go out and play Skate 1 or 2. If you only have a Wii, I can recommend Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam. It’s not the greatest game out there, but it’s the best alternative on the Wii.

Un-Bear-able Film Adaptations

Welcome back to your childhood boys and girls!

The fad of vampires has come and gone, and we've moved onto a different kind of "monster", or at least what Stephen Colbert would call a monster. The new fad is bears! They're scary, but just cuddly enough to not terrify children. Well now today's children will bare witness will fawn over the icons of the children from ten-twenty years ago.

SUSPECT #1!

image from Target

According to Geeks of Doom, Hollywood is calling for a movie to be created based on the popular children's book series, The Berenstain Bears. No real details are available yet about this movie, but the thought of it, while somewhat disappointing that new icons couldn't be created, I'm glad that when I have children they will have roughly the same stories passed on to them that were passed on to me.

Suspect #2!

image from Amazon

This movie will be smarter than the average bear-movie. Yogi Bear is back! And he's voiced by Dan Aykroyd according to slashfilm.com. And Aykroyd is not alone; in fact he's got an all-star cast at his side. Playing Boo-Boo is pop-singer Justin Timberlake, and a live-action reporter/documentarist studying Yogi and Boo-Boo will be Anna Faris. Warner Bros is shooting for a December 17, 2010 release date, but their missing one major element - Park Ranger Smith, the foil to Yogi's schemes. There's only one man I would cast who can fill Park Ranger Smith's shoes and solidify this film as a win - Steve Carell! Make it so, Hollywood!

Block... Buster

A while back, Shawn wrote an article about the downfall of Blockbuster. Now a guy stabs himself to get out of his working there. I gotta give the guy credit though, instead of giving the usual "I'm not feeling well, I'm going home," he stabs himself.

Turns out, he had a different reason to do it. To quote the article "Mr Siebers later told officers he had ripped his uniform trousers while skateboarding and didn’t want to lose his job by turning up at work without them." Hope the guy has insurance cause he was sent to the hospital, and probably will be charged with a fine, also fired. He not only stabbed himself in the leg, but did some damage to his face and stomach!

As a college student this might work with assignments.

Student: I'm sorry, but I don't have my...
Teacher: Let me guess, your dog ate it? Your printer ran out of ink? It fell out a window into a lawnmower? You stabbed yourself?
Student: What if I said my dog stabbed me... with a lawnmower?
Teacher: *Blank stare*
Student: Um... ya my printer ran out of ink *looks away*
Teacher: I would have taken the stabbed excuse.
Student(thinking): Note to self: need to invest in band-aids.

As mentioned before, some Blockbuster stores are going out of business. One of them are close to where I live, so I ended up picking up a bunch of video games. So check out if your local Blockbuster is closing, because there are some good sales out there.

Free Game: Wallace and Gromit

20 years Wallace and Gromit have been around. Tell Tale Games is giving away yet another free game to celebrate. What an awesome company to keep giving away games like this. Though I have not played this game yet, it's free! So go out and download it before it's to late!

Deal runs till the 8th.

http://www.telltalegames.com/wallaceandgromit20th

Clearance Bin Video Game Review: Snake Rattle 'n' Roll

Title: Snake Rattle 'n' Roll
System: NES



Script: Welcome to the Organized Remains Clearance bin video game review. Snake Rattle 'n’ Roll for the NES is the game were looking at today. $5 is the cost we found this game at.

Snake Rattle 'n' Roll features two snakes Rattle and Roll. The object in each level is to eat enough "Nibbley Pibbleys." (Thank you Wiki) To gain enough weight to ring a bell on top of a weighing machine located at the end of the level. This causes a door for the next level to open.

Moving around on a checkered graph takes some time to get use to. Once you do get use to it, the game does get more fun to play. It does get a lot harder after the first level be warned. Everything is out to kill you, even the “Nibbley Pibbleys” can turn into bombs. Ok not everything like diamonds and little snake heads, but basically everything else. Timing jumps can be a big pain in later levels.

Final Say: This LSD trip is definitely worth it for the nostalgia. Making the game worth $5 for any old school gamer out there. While the kids of today’s generation might not like it, the older gamers like me will.

How To Eat Chicken Wings

This is the first I've heard of this "Foodwishes" but it's gotten almost 14,000 views since I posted this, so it must be fairly popular. While the narration, and demonstrating at times in the video are kind of sub-par, such as having difficulty describing the big part of the bone. However, this is important information! I never thought about this process, and it blows my mind! This kind of thing needs to be taught in schools. Useful information here, folks.

Some other demonstration food videos that we, the unwise need:

- How to eat Baby Back Ribs without getting overly messy
- How to eat any kind of Mexican wrap without expelling all the ingredients upon bites
- How to never let cereal get soggy in milk

If you know the answer to any of these conundrums, inform the rest of the world so we can evolve as a society. I'll start with another tidbit I discovered on youtube.

Candy

Well Halloween is over, and it's time to start preparing for Black Friday... I mean Thanksgiving. Before that, lets take a dive into that candy. Alright awesome! Kit-Kats, Skittles, Butterfingers, and other name drops! Wait whats this... a "Circus Peanut?" Let's just throw this away... dang mom is right around the corner. If she catches me she will shell out a story how I'm lucky I get free candy, and blah blah blah. I guess I will just throw it back into the pillow case, or pumpkin pale (depending on the kid).

Fast forward to March, the Circus Peanut and Double Bubble had some sort of mutant intercourse. We have this growing combination of gum and... I have no idea. Deciding the best idea was to dare Billy from school to eat it, of course he'll try it... he'll try anything! Fast forward to April, this contraption has been living inside Billy for a month. Billy starts to have very strange symptoms, becoming the color orange, blowing bubbles, and failing at life.

Ok now fast forward 40 years. We have Billy still going to houses begging for candy on Halloween. Of course he doesn't know what time it is, so he goes really early. When people don't have candy, Billy gets really upset and doesn't take the news so well. All this because some people decided to give out Circus Peanuts and Double Bubble. I made a picture to help guide you if you're not understanding.

Sure there must be someone out there that likes these two candies. Advice I can give to these people? Think of poor Billy!