Battle of Mid-Way

Greg Williams of The Tampa Tribune has created a weekly quiz where one must guess the movie by viewing the single frame that's at the exact center. It can be a lot of fun. Allow me to submit my own. Here's an easy one:



What? You don't recognize it? C'mon, it's obvious! The tension in Michael's face as he exits the bathroom stall and heads out to kill Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey?

Jeez! Nobody knows the classics anymore!

Cont. 10 pcs/pzs

Much to my relief now that I have started my next big LEGO short film, the Brickfilms website has been revamped and is back online (albeit with a few glitches). One nice addition is that they finally (finally!) went and got themselves a YouTube channel in order to host submitted films.

This one shows how they don't need to be huge and complicated to be good.

"Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"

As I was reaching into my car Friday morning to pick up my coffee, I somehow hurt my lower back (and it wasn't even a Venti). The pain continues, though I'm on the Doan's pills and that's taking the edge off a bit.

As to what caused it, I looked online for some medical advice and discovered it's due to a small, radioactive capsule implanted at the base of my spine. Fortunately for my friends and coworkers, the radiation doesn't radiate further that six inches out. Mrs. Mosley, however, will have to cut down on the cuddling until I have this blasted thing removed.

Rest in Peace, JW.

I have a couple of posts in my drafts folder that feature some of my favorite movie quotes. They are there as back up for when I have a long stretch with nothing else to say. Well, with the news that James Whitmore has died (hat tip to TDYL), I find it appropriate to post the requiem of Brooks, the convict he played so touchingly in The Shawshank Redemption:

Brooks: [narrating] "Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry. The parole board got me into this halfway house called 'The Brewer'. And a job bagging groceries at the Foodway. It's hard work and I try to keep up but my hands hurt most of the time. I don't think the store manager likes me very much. Sometimes after work I go to the park and feed the birds. I keep thinking Jake might just show up and say hello. But he never does. I hope wherever he is he's ok and makin' new friends. I have trouble sleepin' at night. I have bad dreams like I'm falling. I wake up scared. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember where I am. Maybe I should get me a gun, an, an rob the Foodway so they'd send me home. I could shoot the manager while I was at it, sort of like a bonus. I guess I'm too old for that sort of nonsense anymore. I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me." [carves "Brooks was here" into wood. Admires his work for a moment. Then kicks out the table beneath him and hangs himself]

I got one word for you, Kelloggs: Munchies

I know a lot of the changes I'd like to see happen in our culture won't happen in my lifetime, but it's my sincere hope that this BS prejudice against marijuana disappears before I kick:

Cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. said it won’t renew its sponsorship contract with Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps because of a photo that showed him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

The Battle Creek, Mich.-based company said Thursday that Phelps's behavior— caught on camera and published Sunday in the British tabloid News of the World— is "not consistent with the image of Kellogg."

So the company that makes Fruit Loops and Cheez-Its does not want to be associated with pot smokers. I'm guessing that don't have a clear idea of their customer base, then.

The MST3k wishlist

In the past, I've posted lists of all the episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and highlighted the ones that have made it to DVD. Each update of the list shaded more titles in as they came out. With the latest release this past Tuesday, I decided to do the list differently.

Years ago, a devoted fan named Travis Hosey went down the list of episodes yet to be released and researched the property rights to each one to determine the likelihood of a MST3k release. Speaking as both a MST3k fan and a Librarian, this always impressed the hell out of me. So I'm reproducing his list with several modifications. First, I've removed the titles that have come out since then. Second, instead of listing them in chronological order, I've grouped them via his "Likelihood" ranking.

(Incidentally, the eight episodes released since he created the list were composed of one "Possible/Not Likely", one "Possible", one "Likely" and five "Extremely Likely", so his track record so far is pretty good.)

EXTREMELY UNLIKELY
212- Godzilla vs. Megalon
213- Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
309 - The Amazing Colossal Man
311 - It Conquered the World
401 - Space Travelers
411 - The Magic Sword
508 - Operation Double 007
516- Alien from L.A.
523 - Village of the Giants
524 - 12 to the Moon
614 - San Francisco International
615 - Kitten with a Whip
703 - Death Stalker and the Warriors From Hell
704 - The Incredible Melting Man
801 - Revenge of the Creature
802 - Leech Woman
803 - Mole People
804 - The Deadly Mantis
805 - The Thing That Wouldn’t Die
807 - Terror from the Year 5000
809 - I Was a Teenage Werewolf
814 - Riding with Death
815 - Agent from H.A.R.M.
905 - The Deadly Bees
906 - The Space Children
1010 - It Lives by Night
1012 - Squirm
1013 - Diabolik

NOT LIKELY
110 - Robot Holocaust
113 - The Black Scorpion
307 - Daddy-O
313 - Earth vs. The Spider
315 - Teenage Caveman
317 - Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
319 - War of the Colossal Beasts
519 - Outlaw of Gor
522 - Teenage Crimewave
623 - The Amazing Transparent Man
624 - Samson vs. The Vampire Women
806 - The Undead
808 - The She Creature
901 - The Projected Man

POSSIBLE/NOT LIKELY
403 - City Limits
601 - Girls Town
705 - Escape 2000
909 - Gorgo
1005 - Blood Waters of Dr. Z

POSSIBLE
101 - The Crawling Eye
102 - Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
111 - Moon Zero Two
112 - Untamed Youth
210- King Dinosaur
302 - Gamera
304 - Gamera vs. Barugon
305 - Stranded in Space
306 - Time of the Apes
308 - Gamera vs. Gaos
310 - Fugitive Alien
312 - Gamera vs. Barugon
314 - Mighty Jack
316 - Gamera vs. Zigra
318 - Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2
405 - Being From Another Planet
416 - Fire Maidens from Outer Space
422 - Day the Earth Froze
423 - Bride of the Monster
505 - Magic Voyage of Sinbad
510- The Painted Hills
608 - Code Name: Diamond Head
617 - The Sword and the Dragon
702 - The Brute Man
813 - Jack Frost
818 - Devil Doll
911 - Devil Fish
912 - The Screaming Skull

POSSIBLE/LIKELY
107 - Robot Monster
109 - Project Moonbase
201- Rocketship X-M
208- Lost Continent
323 - Castle of Fu Manchu
420 - The Human Duplicators
602 - Invasion USA
604 - Zombie Nightmare
605 - Colossus and the Headhunters
621 - Beast of Yucca Flats

LIKELY
203- Jungle Goddess
205- Rocket Attack USA
322 - Master Ninja I
324 - Master Ninja II
412 - Hercules and the Captive Women
415 - The Beatniks
418 - Attack of the The Eye Creatures
501 - Warrior of the Lost World
502 - Hercules
616 - Racket Girls
620 - Danger! Death Ray
903 - The Puma Man

EXTREMELY-LIKELY
105 - The Corpse Vanishes
108 - The Slime People
417- Crash of Moons
509 - Girl In Lovers Lane
520 - Radar Secret Service
521 - Santa Claus
610 - The Violent Years
611 - Last of the Wild Horses
618 - High School Big Shot
701 - Night of the Blood Beast
817 - Horror of Party Beach
819 - Invasion of the Neptune Men
910 - The Final Sacrifice
913 - Quest of the Delta Knights
1007 - Track of the Moonbeast