 Archive for the 'This and That' CategoryRocky Mountain high?August 26th, 2009, 9:47 am by Jayson PetersAh, Colorado. Crisp mountain air, meth-contaminated comics books and armed robbery — meddling kid and Klingon style! Investigators this week announced they have broken up a massive methamphetamine ring that brought weekly drug shipments to the Denver area through Phoenix, then laundered the profits with half a million dollars’ worth of collectible comics books — including some Superman and Batman first editions. The fiends! (Bagged as they were or not, I wonder if those valuable books are now worthless after exposure to the harsh chemicals used to make meth?)
Reading that story led me to this blog post about weird weapons used by Colorado Springs criminals, which mentioned a story from earlier this year about a convenience store robbery in which a Klingon Bat’leth sword was used. Is Colorado becoming a nexus of the bizarre? Weekend ReadingAugust 9th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson PetersGrave concernsJuly 14th, 2009, 10:39 pm by Jayson PetersHave you noticed all the strange happenings surrounding graveyards recently?  Wikipedia Commons First, you’ve got the one in Illinois where workers are accused of digging up bodies so they can resell the plot. And there was some question about whether Michelle Obama’s father is or isn’t buried there. (The White House now insists he isn’t and never was.) This was followed by a case of vandals toppling tombstones at an historic South Carolina graveyard. Now comes word of a 51-year-old man caught in the buff in an Indiana cemetery. It’s a little troublesome when the dead start piling up in the bushes to make room for new arrivals, and it’s certainly unsettling, I’m sure, to see headstones kicked over and flashers strutting about. Maybe it’s nothing to worry about — just Michael Jackson bringing the freak show with him to the afterlife. Then again … Walt Disney — the geek?July 1st, 2009, 12:06 am by Jayson Peters Associated Press file The LA Times notes that Walt Disney was as much a techno-geek as he was an imagineer or businessman:
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Weekend ReadingJune 28th, 2009, 12:08 am by Jayson PetersInfographic: Inside the Disneyland Matterhorn (on the occasion of its 50th birthday) — Orange County Register, via Cool Infographics Remembering Michael Jackson as Tomorrowland’s Captain EO – Around Disney blog at OCRegister.com (What little I can remember is here.) Plus: Hidden treaures at Disneyland Same ‘Bat’ channel? io9 has an interesting look at the state of the various Batman comics in the wake of “Batman R.I.P.” and the ensuing “Battle for the Cowl.” Things seem to be settling down … or are they????
Game time: Trying to find time to test out a review copy of Looney Labs’ Are You the Traitor? It’s described as “a deception party game from the makers of Fluxx.” More soon! Book in hand (or on nightstand): The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien. It’s an epic poem in alliterative work retelling the Norse legend of Sigurd and the fall of the Niflungs. Stuff I found online: ‘Indy 5,’ Weird Al’s ‘Craigslist’ and moreJune 21st, 2009, 8:01 pm by Jayson Peters
At least one D&D piracy case headed to mediationJune 19th, 2009, 11:33 pm by Jayson PetersAn Associated Press story reveals more details about the recent Dungeons & Dragons lawsuits than you can shake a Rod of Lordly Might at. One of the defendants is bravely questing forth to represent himself in a copyright infringement suit filed by Wizards of the Coast, which is basically Hasbro — one of the largest toymakers in the world. His case appears to be headed for mediation, so he may yet make his saving throw vs. scary corporate lawyers. And you thought your job was bad…June 18th, 2009, 5:40 pm by Chris "KeL" AdamsHere’s a story to make you feel better about your job. The AP is reporting that workers cleaning up Washington’s Hanford nuclear reactor have come across radioactive wasp nests. The wasps constructed the hives out of “fairly highly contaminated” mud containing radioactive cesium and cobalt. While most of the wasps have moved out, there could be thousands of nests to be cleaned out. This just goes to show that no matter how bad your job is, it can always get worse. Perennial archvillain Christopher Lee becomes a knightJune 14th, 2009, 12:01 am by Jayson Peters
If your answer is Christopher Lee, you’re only half right — it’s Sir Christopher Lee to you, now. The 87-year-old Hammer Studios alumnus was knighted Saturday by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, along with X2: X-Men United actor Alan Cumming and celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon. See also:
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Also this week, the FBI dubbed a bank robber in more than a dozen hits in Arizona and Colorado 
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Who has had the distinction of portraying Counts Dooku and Dracula, The Man With the Golden Gun and Middle-earth’s treacherous wizard Saruman?
