June/July 2010 Poll - Fire and Ice

Never let it be said that this blog is visited by normal people.
The majority of you voted for the Fire Elemental.
The majority of you voted for Summertime Air-Conditioning.
There is a contradiction here, no?

Speaking of elementals, hopefully, none of you have seen The Last Airbender, seeing as how rottentomatoes.com gave it a score of 8 out of 100. Dang, Shamalanadingdong! Who's giving you money to make movies these days?

Anyway, nice work, Fire and Ice.

OMG #13

I just caught an episode of Jimmy Fallon last night, not sure if it was a rerun or new...
Anyway, kudos to Jimmy on showcasing lesser-known bands and all that...blahblahblah.
I'm not so into The Roots as he is, even having them as his house band.

BUT

Last night the band Of Montreal was on.
They sang some song about "You look like a playground, playah!"
They all had white make-up on their faces, except for the black singer.
There were like 300 people on stage. Not sure the instrumentation warranted that.
Three or so of them were just sitting in the middle drinking milk or something.
The song absofrickinlutely sucked.
It sucked to the point that I was still cringing while thinking about it and TRYING to sleep...

Don't listen/suppport/internet/google/care about Of Montreal. You will save yourself time and money.

You're welcome.

OMG #12 - THE WALKING DEAD!!!

My favorite comic book is coming to the small screen!

AMC will take on The Walking Dead, written by Kentuckian Robert Kirkman, this October.

Production blog is HERE.

AARGGHH! If only Atlanta was a little bit closer...

"Okay, buddy, you and Daddy are going to go on a little drive.

Then we might need to chew on some brains for a TV show..."

NEW Product Review! Or is it Product ReDEW?

For those of you out of the beverage loop, Mountain Dew just completed its second summer of Dewmocracy! Three new flavors were sold in stores for a limited time and then voted on by Dew Aficionados such as myself. The first Dewmocracy winner was the indigo-tinted flavor called Voltage that is in stores as we speak.

This year we had three new flavors to contend with:

Distortion - Lime Blasted Dew

Typhoon - Punch of Tropical Dew

Whiteout - Smooth Citrus Dew

I voted for Distortion this year. The lime was very present and it was quite refreshing.

I liked Typhoon enough but it seemed to me to be the incestuous offspring of LiveWire and Code Red.

Whiteout was white. It didn't quite taste like chalky soda but it might as well have.

Alas, since this post is about a month late to the party, the official results having been released on June 15th, we here at BW are saddened with the outcome.

Whiteout was victorious with 44% of the vote. Typhoon had 40% and Distortion a disappointing 16%. If Distortion was a Central American futbol player he was probably shivved in a bar fight by a broken Dos Equis beer bottle the weekend following his return home.

For the official tally go HERE. It's actually worth it to see a state-by-state (AND county-by-county) breakdown! Thank you, Oklahoma, for valiantly trying to put Distortion on the store shelves. The Ol' Okie Doke just wasn't enough this time around...

OMG #11

THE KARATE KID (2010) IS A MOVIE ABOUT KUNG FU!

IT IS NOT ABOUT KARATE!

BUT THE NAME OF THE MOVIE IS NOT THE KUNG FU KID!

(which actually sounds better, now that I think about it)

IT HAS ALREADY MADE 200+ MILLION DOLLARS!

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP GOING TO THIS CRAP?

OMG #10

MTV's The Real World just recently started its 24th season...

TWENTY FREAKIN FOUR!

I was old when it started in 1992. What does that make me now???!!!

Anyway, for you trivia buffs out there, New Orleans is the setting for this season and is only the second city behind New York to have the location repeated...

Also, the season will most likely focus on some race fights, gay romance, and maybe somebody getting thrown out of the house. Heh.