[scifinoir2] I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator By Mick Webb http://www.gizmag.com/author/mick-webb/ *18:08 June 21, 2010* [image: I-WAY World features a total of 18 racing simulators]http://www.gizmag.com/iway-world-racing-simulator/15490/picture/116592/ I-WAY World features a total of

Re: [scifinoir2] Freebies

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
No problem. If I run across anything else I will send them your way. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks, Mr Worf. A couple of these look like something I can use. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote:

[scifinoir2] Lady Gaga's Alejandro

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
You gotta love the kink overtones in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqrrmev4mA -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

[scifinoir2] Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence [image: AFP] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/brand/SIG=ofqlv2/*http://www.afp.com -Buzz up!0 votes -

Re: [scifinoir2] Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Knowing some of Holy Mother Church's inner workings... he done the deed. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence [image: AFP] http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/afp/brand/SIG=ofqlv2/*http://www.afp.com -

Re: [scifinoir2] I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
I'm there, Mr Worf. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator By Mick Webb http://www.gizmag.com/author/mick-webb/ *18:08 June 21, 2010* [image: I-WAY World features a total of 18 racing

Re: [scifinoir2] CBS enters India TV market with Reliance

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
That they will, Mr Worf. I had Indian friends in college who bemoaned the offerings of 80s TV. That was tame stuff compared to now. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I dunno. I think that there will be problems in India because of the things we have in

Re: [scifinoir2] Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
You'd think that members of the clergy would be above all of that, but the last 20 years has proven that sentiment to be false. To be honest, the church has had a pretty jaded past throughout its history. I remember reading recently that the church put a hit out on the Medici family in the 1500s

Re: [scifinoir2] CBS enters India TV market with Reliance

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
I would love to see the list of shows that they send over. Can you imagine the damage a show like Archie Bunker could do? :) On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: That they will, Mr Worf. I had Indian friends in college who bemoaned the offerings of 80s

Re: [scifinoir2] Memphis Beat Debuts after Hawthorne Tonight

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Sorry I missed this one, Keith. Have to hit the website to see it. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Yet another original series from a cable station! After NBC unwisely canceled My Name is Earl, it's good to see him back on his feet already.

Re: [scifinoir2] Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, the trouble is mostly in the upper hierarchy, who've tasted the power and can't let go of it. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: You'd think that members of the clergy would be above all of that, but the last 20 years has proven that sentiment

Re: [scifinoir2] Hong Kong Phooey The Movie!

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, once Battleship was greenlighted, all bets were off. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This one movie that would be on a never thought that would make it to the screen list. Guess I was wrong on that Hong Kong Phooey The Movie! By

Re: [scifinoir2] I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
They have something similar in Vegas that is cool but not state of the art. Do you remember the Mech Warrior video game places? This reminds me of those places. It was $10 or 15 for a 15 minute game and most of the time people didn't know what to do and ran around in circles. I went only once

Re: [scifinoir2] Hong Kong Phooey The Movie!

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
OPERATION! THE MOVIE!!! MONOPOLY! THE MOVIE!! SHOOTS AND LADDERS THE MOVIE!!! CANDYLAND! THE MOVIE! LIFE! THE SERIES! On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, once Battleship was greenlighted, all bets were off. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:27

Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Obama 'angry' after reading McChrystal's remarks

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, again -- we'll stop you when you're wrong. [?][?] As for the generals... I know a lot of people in the military, from both enlisted and officer ranks, and one consensus among the two is this -- the higher the grade, the lower the common sense. As for folks like Garofalo, even though they

Re: [scifinoir2] Hong Kong Phooey The Movie!

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf -- ix-nay on the ues-clay! [?][?] On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: OPERATION! THE MOVIE!!! MONOPOLY! THE MOVIE!! SHOOTS AND LADDERS THE MOVIE!!! CANDYLAND! THE MOVIE! LIFE! THE SERIES! On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Martin Baxter

Re: [scifinoir2] I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
I went to one in... D.C., I believe, Mr Worf. The friends who took me said the same thing as you -- no difference. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They have something similar in Vegas that is cool but not state of the art. Do you remember the Mech

Re: [scifinoir2] Gentlemen of Bacongo

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, the dichotomy of the images jar, but also attract, my eye. I'll have to hit Borders to check that out. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Gentlemen of Bacongo by Maggie York-Worthhttp://www.coolhunting.com/author/maggie-york-worth/in Culture

Re: [scifinoir2] Drew Barrymore in One-Liners

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
And, Keith, I just learned that she was a producer on one of SF's seminal cult films, Donnie Darko. Pops up from time to time on one Encore channel or another. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Exactly! I'm the same way. I'm not a super fan of her

[scifinoir2] Fwd: OT: Perry wants Rihanna to strip at her bachelorette party

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Baxter
-- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:47 PM Subject: OT: Perry wants Rihanna to strip at her bachelorette party To: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Taken straight from the WTF! Files, folks...

Re: [scifinoir2] Bollywood

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
An R-rated movie in Bollywood?? I thought they still had issues with even couples that are falling in love kissing onscreen. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:59:14 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada

Re: [scifinoir2] Hong Kong Phooey The Movie!

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
Geez, they're mining the vein for the last dregs of ore, eh? I didn't like the cartoon in the least. It had the horribly minimal animation that a lot of toons had in the day. Not sure if it was Hanna-Barbera, but sometimes their animation work was so spare there was barely any color or

Re: [scifinoir2] Memphis Beat Debuts after Hawthorne Tonight

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
I noticed George Clooney is a producer of the show, and that the executive producer and director was non other than veteran actor/director Clark Johnson. Johnson played detective Meldrick Lewis on Homicide, Augustus Haynes on The Wire, and directed several eps of The Shield. Good to see that

[scifinoir2] Re: Asking for Movie Suggestions

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
I am really geeked for Inception. I am a reformed Leonardo DiCaprio hater (I hate on everybody in the boys playing men club: DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Justin Timberlake...Patrick Dempsey before he became McDreamy - can't stand their big heads on little boy bodies). Absolutely LOVED Shutter Island

[scifinoir2] Re: Fwd: Vatican names 'Blues Brothers Catholic classic

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
I am often amazed (and amused)how something as truly subversive as the original Blues Brothers movie, over time, can become mainstream enough that even the Vatican can embrace it. I cannot imagine something like this happening when the movie was originally released. A related comment: I

[scifinoir2] Re: Octavia Butler

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
I am not an early adopter (I just bought a DROID cell phone for father's day - for $48 - and I am FINALLY able to actually send text messages) but I was among the first in line when Ms. Octavia E. Butler began publishing in the late seventies. I started with Mind of My Mind and rode with her

[scifinoir2] Re: Fwd: OT: Perry wants Rihanna to strip at her bachelorette party

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
Where is my invitation? ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Baxter martin.baxter@... Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:47 PM Subject: OT: Perry wants Rihanna to strip at her bachelorette party

[scifinoir2] Re: Octavia Butler

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
I find it suspect that Kindred is the Butler novel that is most taught in schools. Due to her passivity in the face of her increasingly horrific subjugation and her fierce defense of her blond white husband when her neighbors begin to suspect, erroneously, that he is abusing her, I wonder what

[scifinoir2] Being Human is showing this week on DIRECTV

2010-06-23 Thread angelababycat
FYI, Being Human started this week on DirecTV101 (the Pilot, multiple times this week).

[scifinoir2] Re: Memphis Beat Debuts after Hawthorne Tonight

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
I forgot to set my DVR to record Memphis Beat. Mercy! ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Yet another original series from a cable station! After NBC unwisely canceled My Name is Earl, it's good to see him back on his feet already. Looks like

[scifinoir2] Slanty-eyed white people playing Asians marathon on TCM

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
There is a slany-eyed white people playing Asians marathon on TCM today. Thus far this morning I have seen that great Asian actress Katharine Hepburn starring as Jade Tan in the great Chinese resistance movie Dragon Seed (1944). This movie also stars notable Asian actors John Huston (as

Re: [scifinoir2] Slanty-eyed white people playing Asians marathon on TCM

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Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Octavia Butler

2010-06-23 Thread Tracy Curtis
My understanding of the teaching thing in high schools comes from talking to my students who have been teachers and to students just out of high school. They indicate that assigning anything designated science fiction or fantasy involves special permissions. Kindred stands outside of that. And

Re: [scifinoir2] Slanty-eyed white people playing Asians marathon on TCM

2010-06-23 Thread Tracy Curtis
I can't remember whether we talked about this subject on the list before. But there should be a category for based on a true story or true scenario when they just turn the Asian Americans into white people. At least The Fast and the Furious, and 21, the movie about MIT students counting cards

[scifinoir2] Natalie Wood Film Festival on TCM in June

2010-06-23 Thread Kelwyn
TCM is running a Natalie Wood film festival this month. Back in my sane and sober youth I loved me some Natalie Wood. For little boys of color she was the ethnic it girl. Russian descended Natasha Zacharenko played white-girl-turned-Native-American (The Searchers), Hispanic (West Side

Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Obama 'angry' after reading McChrystal's remarks

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
The whole thing is puzzling. Why would anyone on his staff be this irresponsible? The reporter says he thinks it was their way of getting their feelings out without going to Obama directly. Why was that needed? He's made it clear that he'll listen openly to his generals. And no one can ever expect

[scifinoir2] Re: Octavia Butler

2010-06-23 Thread Kenneth
I love Octavia Butler (Rest in Peace). Her best work to me was the Patternist series (Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark and Patternmaster). They have all been published as one book, Seed to Harvest.

Re: [scifinoir2] Drew Barrymore in One-Liners

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
I can believe that. I've never seen Darko, though of course am familiar with it. Worth the time? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 8:02:50 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re:

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Asking for Movie Suggestions

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
yeah, Inception is on my radar as well. I do respect the movie choices DiCaprio has made in recent years. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:07:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2]

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Memphis Beat Debuts after Hawthorne Tonight

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
Don't fret. One thing the cable stations do is rerun their shows a lot. Every time I miss Burn Notice or Justified, I just check for the next airing, and they cover the range from late night to middle of the day. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To:

Re: [scifinoir2] Slanty-eyed white people playing Asians marathon on TCM

2010-06-23 Thread Keith Johnson
What, no John Wayne in Ghengis Khan? - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 10:34:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Slanty-eyed white people playing Asians marathon on TCM There

Re: [scifinoir2] Way OT: Obama 'angry' after reading McChrystal's remarks

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
I am sure that he is connected to Palin. This was a calculated move to undermine Obama. No doubt about it. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: The whole thing is puzzling. Why would anyone on his staff be this irresponsible? The reporter says he

Re: [scifinoir2] Gentlemen of Bacongo

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
You have to admit that brothas everywhere have that stylin and profilin' gene. :) On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, the dichotomy of the images jar, but also attract, my eye. I'll have to hit Borders to check that out. On Tue, Jun 22,

Re: [scifinoir2] Hong Kong Phooey The Movie!

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
This will more than likely be a southpark type version of the story. One of the guys from Family Guy is doing it so at the minimum it will be edgy. What would be hilarious is if they actually made it into a crime drama with Michael Bey explosions, ninja assassins, body parts being chopped off etc

Re: [scifinoir2] Hong Kong Phooey The Movie!

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
I forgot one sentence With Taxi Driver type dialog On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: This will more than likely be a southpark type version of the story. One of the guys from Family Guy is doing it so at the minimum it will be edgy. What would

Re: [scifinoir2] Bollywood

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
Yea shocked me too. Their censors are extremely conservative. Its called the Central Board of Film Certification. Basically like our MPAA on steroids and all the way to the right. Here is one of the articles: http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/news/2010/lsd-adult-certificate-170310.html

Re: [scifinoir2] Senior cardinal accused of corruption issues defence

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
Power corrupts I guess. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Mr Worf, the trouble is mostly in the upper hierarchy, who've tasted the power and can't let go of it. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: You'd

Re: [scifinoir2] I-WAY World - not your average motor racing simulator

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
The only thing that I would say was kinda cool at the time was the full sized video game controllers. There was an XBOX or PS2 game that had a similar controller system that came out a few years ago. It was pretty much the same thing with better graphics. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Martin

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Fwd: Vatican names 'Blues Brothers Catholic classic

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
I agree. Back then it was more of a counter-culture movie that was a liberal stance to Regan and the establishment. A lot of the movie heroes back then did that such as Smokey and the bandit etc. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I am often amazed (and

[scifinoir2] Gizmag News - 1,400 megapixel telescope powered-up to spot earthbound asteroids

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
http://gizmag.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=57c04fd0f2defe64b0f583dc7id=7570d92fe2e=4953d68bca Welcome to the newsletter for gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine. These are the headlines for June the 23rd, 2010.

[scifinoir2] The Paris Green Air Show 2010

2010-06-23 Thread Mr. Worf
The Paris Green Air Show 2010 By Paul Ridden http://www.gizmag.com/author/paul-ridden/ *08:32 June 21, 2010* [image: Gizmag attended this year's Green Air Show in Paris to take a look at some of the eco-frie...]http://www.gizmag.com/green-air-show-paris-2010/15486/picture/116534/ Gizmag

[scifinoir2] Jonah Hex

2010-06-23 Thread Bosco Bosco
Just got back from a viewing at the fabulous Alamo Drafthouse. Great place to see a movie in Austin. Not much needs to be said about Jonah Hex. It is EXACTLY what it purports to be a cheesey action film set as a western with lots cheesey action film moments strung together with lots of bang