Overnight/Weekend Open Thread: Happy Chinese New Year!
It’s the year of the horse, which here at TR means…
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If you want to skip the Superbowl, rest assured, Monday’s Daily List will highlight the best and nerdiest of the commercials. Also, be sure to enter the Jack in the Box art contest, linked at the top of the site.
Until then, here are a few stories I wasn’t able to get to this week…
-Bryan Singer confirms that X-Men: Apocalypse will feature the First Class actors and NOT the “present-day” cast, and Apocalypse will not be an alien. Now, if he could just confirm that Apocalypse won’t look like a douche, we’d be in business.
-Nintendo has some vague future plans, including licensing out their in-house characters a little more. Mario-brand microwave mushroom pizza, anyone?
–Tauntaun rocking chairs. That is all.
-RIP Arthur Rankin Jr., of Rankin-Bass fame.
-The uncensored final speech from South Park‘s episode 201 metaphorically brings the mountain to Mohammed.
-Jack in the Box is adding bacon and nacho cheese to their already deep-fried tacos.
-A porn star offered to give a blow job for Lego models. Lego was displeased.
–“Wearable books” want to give you panic attacks. Hardly necessary – just read any book that deals with what’s really in your food.
-AAAAAAAAALVIN! Bad enough that there were Chipmunks movies…they’ve now inspired Disney to do a live-action/CGI Chip ‘n Dale.
-A virtual reality game that lets you play as a guy playing a virtual reality game.
Tipsters for these included SlyDante777, Gallen_Dugall and Dr.Gonzo82…apologies to any others I may not be remembering. This just covers all the tabs open in my browser.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist