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Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'josswhedon'

September 3, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. This ad for The Powerpuff Girls is also a brilliant and hilarious parody of Super Friends. Enjoy! (Via) Obama has many famous supporters—even emo! (Via Jill) PW tracks the sad decline of Nic Cage by listing six films in which he just didn't give a flying... well, you know. (Via Sarah) Well, you can forget about the Tarzan reboot being a......

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August 13, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Guardian altered some photos of our president from the Olympics and created LOL Bush. Enjoy! (Via Sarah) Ooh, remote control zombie! (Via Sarah) Cinematical lists seven men gone too soon. It's been a rough year. The poorly named site Galactic Binder picks the top 31 bad-ass Star Wars moments. Some of these aren't exactly "bad-ass," but most of them are pretty......

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July 23, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. We're really hoping Christian Bale didn't actually beat up his mom and his sister, because then we'd have to be really disappointed in him. Batman does not beat up old ladies! Unless they're super villains, of course (via Ross). Meanwhile, Warren Ellis points out that Hollywood stars used to be capable of more impressive bad behavior. Check out Cinematical's Comic-Con preview.......

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July 21, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The Center City District is running a pretty cool contest: submit your best photos from Center City Sips and you could win $200 worth of Center City restaurant gift certificates. (Via RJ) The AV Club takes a look at 20 cases of The Darrin Effect, that being, when a character is recast and the result is jarring. (Via) The estimates say......

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March 19, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The Raconteurs just announced that they're releasing a brand new album on March 25th. It's called Consolers of the Lonely, and plenty more info about it and its release can be found on the news section of the Raconteurs' official website. They say they're skipping out on the usual months of promotion in order to get the album out to everybody......

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March 5, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The sad news has spread quickly across the internet that co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons Gary Gygax has died. A local blogger and former Phillyist read that article we posted yesterday about the decade's most misogynistic films and got so pissed he decided to analyze and deconstruct the entire thing in an impressive rant. Thanks, yagathai! Now we feel good about......

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December 17, 2007

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part......

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December 13, 2007

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. LAist has more fun photos from the writers' strike, this time featuring fans and employees of Mutant Enemy Productions (Joss Whedon's production company), who all came together last Friday to support the strikers. Aw, look at Nicholas Brendon in his hat and glasses. And Summer Glau is so cute! Nintendo claims they are surprised by the Greenpeace report which we posted about earlier,......

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November 1, 2007

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Feeling a bit sick? Maybe from eating all that candy last night? Don't worry: Basic Instructions will tell you what to do. And speaking of Halloween candy, how about a quiz on the trivia of that very subject? We got only one answer right, so we think we should spend the rest of the day eating candy. You know, to study up. (Via......

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October 31, 2007

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Defective Yeti is celebrating Halloween with a list of links to the entire text of over 20 spooky stories. Here's a unique list: great pizza moments in film. Yum! (Via Sarah, via SlashFood) It's a joining together of geek-iverses for a good cause! "Fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity will auction off an autographed script from SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica to......

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September 7, 2007

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The Video Games Live concert experience is coming to CD October 15th. Nerds, rejoice! Harmonix is taking their game Rock Band on tour. At the end, the two best bands will face off on MTV's TRL and the winner will open for a "yet-to-be-named mega band" at the Rock Band launch concert. And hey, guess what? The tour's coming to Philly 10/18-10/21. Nice!......

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August 30, 2007

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. You may vaguely remember from long ago the idea for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off show called Ripper that was meant to follow the adventures of Anthony Stewart Head's character in England, along with a whole cast of new characters. Well, good news! It sounds like it's actually going to happen now, with Joss Whedon in the captain's chair, and shooting beginning......

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July 12, 2007

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. This is a pretty neat find: a series of illustrations from a 1947 issue of Life Magazine wherein some cartoonists were asked to draw their most famous characters, once normally, and then again with a blindfold on. The results are fascinating. (Via) To celebrate the impending release of The Simpsons Movie, Shiny Shiny dug up a link to Great Gadgets of the Simpsons,......

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February 12, 2007

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (Mon, 8PM-11PM, USA; Tue, 8PM-11PM, USA) - Who doesn't love a dog show, we ask you? Well, cat people, maybe, but whatever. This is the 131st edition of this particular competition and "features more than 2500 dogs representing 165 recognized breeds." It's going down in Madison Square Garden in NYC. The first three hours on Monday night cover the opening night of......

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February 5, 2007

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. UPDATE: Oops! We forgot one important thing: this Emerald Nuts commercial is our pick for the best Super Bowl commercial. It's pure-burning comedy brilliance. Enjoy! First of all, let's get the crushingly depressing news out of the way: Joss Whedon is no longer working on Wonder Woman. From the text of his official announcement (which you can read if you click......

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