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		<title>Airwolf Season 4: A Fever Dream</title>
		<link>http://royvsimonds.com/blog/2009/06/airwolf-season-4-a-fever-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Airwolf Season 4? What's that all about? I saw an episode &#038; thought I was dreaming. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--Amazon_CLS_IM_START--><p><a href="In other news: Airwolf Season 4? What's that all about? I saw an ep. &amp; thought I was dreaming. Almagamated mirror world tv show. More later" target="_blank">A confluence!</a></p>
<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Airwolf Season 4? What&#8217;s that all about? I saw an episode &amp; thought I was dreaming. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Almagamated mirror world tv show on laughing gas. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Not the Jan Michael Vincent &amp; Ernest Borgnine jaunt in a weaponized whirlybird I was accustomed to!</span></span></p>
<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Airwolf SE4 was broadcast on the USA Network, budget slashed, had the entire cast replaced, they filmed in Canada, &amp; reused the flight scenes from earlier seasons! The chopper was a fake too!</span></span></p>
<p>Watch Airwolf Season 4 episode 20 &#8220;The Puppet Master&#8221; either on Hulu (why is it on HULU? Bandwidth be damned!),</p>
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<p>or a dedicated fansite! <a href="http://bit.ly/9kSIp" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/9kSIp</a> (OF ALL THE THINGS TO MAKE A FANSITE ABOUT?)</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 274px"><img title="OMG THEYRE GONNA MAKE ME WATCH IT!" src="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/12/602/39617_145x80_generated__OwKLR7TFUUCG0uNdsqEgJQ.jpg" alt="" width="264" height="145" /><p class="wp-caption-text">OMG! THEY&#39;RE GONNA MAKE ME WATCH IT!</p></div>
<p>Spoiler: It&#8217;s like the Bloodhound Gang meets Skynet on the set of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(TV_series)" target="_blank">War of the Worlds the series</a>. (Yes, I watched WOTWTS.)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just so bizarre on many different levels.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the intro to Season 4 on youtube:</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not quite the same is it without JMV and EB?</p>
<p>Think I&#8217;ll go back to watching Banacek.</p>
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<p>Ahhhh, R.I.P. George Peppard.</p>
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		<title>NINJA vs SAMURAI !!!</title>
		<link>http://royvsimonds.com/blog/2009/02/ninja-vs-samurai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember falling asleep during the beginning of &#8220;The Last Samurai&#8221;. But I woke up during this scene! NINJAS FLIPPING OUT! oh and gaijin Tom Cruise getting nasty with the katana. What a delightfully epic battle scene in the middle of a Cruise flick. Who&#8217;d a thunk it?! My favorite part of this clip [...]]]></description>
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<p>
I don&#8217;t remember falling asleep during the beginning of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/">&#8220;The Last Samurai&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p>But I woke up during this scene!
<p>
NINJAS FLIPPING OUT! oh and gaijin Tom Cruise getting nasty with the katana.</p>
<p>What a delightfully epic battle scene in the middle of a Cruise flick. Who&#8217;d a thunk it?!</p>
<p> My favorite part of this clip is at 3:42, when after fighting dozens of ninjas, THREE MORE JUMP IN.<br />
( I suggest you add it to your Netflix queue / Public Library request list.)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;Glory&#8221; meets &#8220;The Last of the Mohicans&#8221; set in &#8220;The Seven Samurai&#8221;.<br />
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		<title>Cartoons by Brian Valinski</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy</dc:creator>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 478px"><a href="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1922/129/66/1437802483/n1437802483_30191670_698.jpg"><img title="Have you ever thought about life after death?" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1922/129/66/1437802483/n1437802483_30191670_698.jpg" alt="Have you ever thought about life after death?" width="468" height="604" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Have you ever thought about life after death?</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 586px"><a href="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1922/129/66/1437802483/n1437802483_30191671_1413.jpg"><img title="Okay let me get this straight..." src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1922/129/66/1437802483/n1437802483_30191671_1413.jpg" alt="Okay let me get this straight..." width="576" height="432" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Okay let me get this straight...</p></div>
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		<title>We&#8217;re all Robots!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching for Robot Carnival on dvd, it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a fun collection of anime shorts. But I searched for &#8220;Robot Circus&#8221; mistakenly, and instead found this french album on ebay, then I searched for a clip of that delicious sounding track, Tous Des Robots, and found sheer DIY awesomeness. Backyard robots in a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--Amazon_CLS_IM_START--><p>I was searching for <a title="Robot Carnival" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Carnival" target="_blank">Robot Carnival</a> on dvd, it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a fun collection of anime shorts.</p>
<p>But I searched for &#8220;Robot Circus&#8221; mistakenly, and instead found <a title="Martin Circus - Tous des Robots" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/MARTIN-CIRCUS-TOUS-DES-ROBOTS-FRENCH-12_W0QQitemZ290179078821QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116" target="_blank">this french album</a> on ebay, then I searched for a clip of that</p>
<p>delicious sounding track, Tous Des Robots, and found sheer DIY awesomeness.</p>
<p>Backyard robots in a breakdance battle, juggling torches in front of a GIANT FLASHING LED sculpture of underpants!</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="100" height="100" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="id" value="VideoPlayback" /><param name="src" value="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5513813611955494409&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true" /><embed id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5513813611955494409&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true"></embed></object></p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a fine line between performance art and just having a good time.&#8221;<br />
It&#8217;s like a <a title="Be Kind Rewind" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Kind_Rewind" target="_blank">Sweded</a> <a title="Daft Punk &quot;Around the world&quot;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0HSD_i2DvA" target="_blank">Michél Gondry video</a>, which is all sorts of cultural feedback going on.</p>
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		<title>UFOs, Terminators, and you! (Or &#8220;You got your meme in my fanfic!&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ufo's and terminators meet over a latté and discuss a mutually beneficial merger.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!--Amazon_CLS_IM_START--><p>WOW.</p>
<p>The mid season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was awesome!</p>
<p>For a few totally geeky-movie nerd-fanboy reasons.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 410px"><img title="THREE DOTS?" src="http://www.royvsimonds.com/images/pacl-lang-analysis-p123-resized.gif" alt="Could be the three dots?" width="400" height="304" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Could be the three dots?</p></div>
<p>I thought the photos at the UFO convention Sarah visits looked way too familiar.<span id="more-31"></span></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 641px"><a href="http://io9.com/5109015/weve-seen-mondays-super+weird-terminator-episode"><img title="T:TSCC" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2008/12/Viewer-4.jpg" alt="Sarah at the ufo convention" width="631" height="359" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I&#39;m not so crazy after all!</p></div>
<p>They are strikingly similar to these:</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 200px"><a href="http://www.royvsimonds.com/images/bigbasin2a.gif"><img title="BigBasin sighting" src="http://www.royvsimonds.com/images/bigbasin2a.gif" alt="BigBasin sighting" width="190" height="142" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">BigBasin sighting</p></div>
<p>Which come from Isaac&#8217;s blog† about being an employee in a secret military &#8220;ufo&#8221; research facility.</p>
<p><a title="Isaac's blog" href="http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/ " target="_blank">http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/ </a></p>
<p>This floated about the blogosphere a little while back, mostly tying into some heresay viral ads for Halo 3.</p>
<p>I remember it from <a href="http://digg.com/odd_stuff/California_UFO_Pictures_Create_Online_Buzz" target="_blank">a post on digg.com</a> about it. (Do you follow me here? Cause we ain&#8217;t even close to done yet.)</p>
<p>But of course the tin-foil hat brigade got a hold of Isaac&#8217;s CARET documents and inspected the secret ufo photos! (USING THE EMBOSS FILTER in Photoshop. Just like how you can tell George Bush is a lizard from another dimension.* )</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ufocasebook.com/unmannedprobeanalysis.html" target="_blank">http://www.ufocasebook.com/unmannedprobeanalysis.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Dinosauroid_Reptoid.gif"><img class="alignnone" title="Reptoid Gif" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Dinosauroid_Reptoid.gif" alt="" width="147" height="332" /></a></p>
<p>So what the John Connor just happened?</p>
<p>Did the writers at T:TSCC re-use a Halo:3 viral campaign&#8217;s concept, which is in one</p>
<p>sense a repurposing of UFO sub-culture event? Yes, I think they did and much to my chagrin!</p>
<p>Because it&#8217;s all so totally over the top GEEKY.</p>
<h2>You got your meme in my fanfic indeed folks!</h2>
<p>A little bit too far is never enough! Mixing non canon movies-turned-tv-show with wacky Believe it or not style Alternate reality game, with ultra creepy fringe conspiracy theory! What else will they grab for the next half of the season?</p>
<p>Are LOLcats really just the Turk trying to understand human emotion?</p>
<p>And what does this all mean for conceptual copyright?</p>
<p>If it&#8217;s just a meme of a meme of a meme, is it really just a product of sponsorship and popculture? A wink&#8217;s as good as nod to a blind audience right? It&#8217;s all a very grey area (pun intended).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s crazier than the plot to <a title="YOU HAVE TO WATCH PRIMER" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/" target="_blank">Primer</a>!</p>
<p>SPOILER ALERT: In case you haven&#8217;t seen the episode.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 778px"><img title="UFO TERMINATOR HK SPOILER!" src="http://www.royvsimonds.com/images/TTSCCufoHK.png" alt="OH YEAH BABY!" width="768" height="576" /><p class="wp-caption-text">OH YEAH BABY!</p></div>
<p>The drones that the ufo wo/man &#8220;Abraham&#8221; (which is a nod to Isaac&#8217;s CARET blog. Oh T:TSCC, you did take Old Testament 101!) was seeing thinking that they were ufo&#8217;s, are (drumroll&#8230;.)</p>
<p>PROTOTYPE Hunter Killer Drones.</p>
<p>Those things are so freaking sweet! I only watch the future scenes of the original Terminator just to see those things rain down plasma!</p>
<p><a href="http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/HK-Aerial"><img class="alignnone" title="HK Aerial" src="http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/terminator/images/1/17/HK-Aerial_vs_Stinger1.JPG" alt="" width="707" height="545" /></a></p>
<p>PEW-PEW-PEW! Bring it on in February Sarah!</p>
<p>†Or is it a hoax, or an advertisement? It&#8217;s still a blog though, at least structurally.</p>
<p>*HUH? Presidential aliens, the what you say?**</p>
<p>**Just google it.***</p>
<p>***Fine, ok <a title="GEORGE BUSH IS AN ALIEUM????" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilian_humanoid#David_Icke" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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