The Weekend Hangover: Boondocks, Diamond Armor, Viking Ghosts, More
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Highlights of some of the stories you may have missed over the weekend, compiled with the help of Kyle LeClair.
This weeks tipsters include aidan.jeans, James.k.Polk, SlyDante777, BumblebeeZ3, donnaryoko, troi, Gallen_Dugall, Dr.Gonzo82, Anyone00, Timely-Tardis-Lego, rkwsuperstar
-Drugs that expand time are apparently to be wasted on punishing crimninals, rather than extending orgasms.
-KISS designs football uniforms that look like Guy Fieri’s vomit.
-A 1989 Batman Diet Coke ad gets remade with Daredevil…my take-home is that the Diet Coke logo was way better in italics.
-All the polls will be taken in the abandoned warehouse district…
-“Adult” KFC in Japan is, shockingly, not all about bare breasts.
-Bike made of animal bones, but does not run. You can’t have everything.
-Vikings didn’t actually have horned helmets. Nor did they come back as ghosts. So suspend your disbelief for Viking Ghost.
-Rifftrax on the National Geographic Channel?
-All right, all right, all right, Ahtellyawhut
-Lose a bet, legally change your name. To “Full Metal Havok More Sexy N Intelligent Than Spock And All The Superheroes Combined With Frostnova.”
-The Corporate Lifestyle Simulator you wish were realistic.
-More Alien: Isolation development.
-I fight for good comics and movies. You?
–Super stylin’ jacket. Mega Man!
-Don’t taze me, dro’!
-Horse-Maskers!
-Everything is awesome…when your parrot plays dead. (Or pines for the fjords.)
–Jurassic Park with cats
-ZOMBOOBIES – looks so cheap and crass, I can hardly believe I didn’t act in it.
-Before Aaron McGruder resurrects Jesus, he brings back The Boondocks
–Bulletproof diamond armor is useful if you’re James Bond, or Tim and Eric looking to waste a movie budget.
-An origami elephant you’ll never forget.
-Always bet on Black. Orphan Black.
–Dr. Proctor’s Fart Powder is a gas.
-Just kick it like a superhero.
–Kamen Rider highlights keep it reel.
-Doom de-Doom Doom…Diorama?
-A new Cold War espionage game? Good timing.
About The Author
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