Doesn’t really show a lot, but here is the trailer to the Batman sequel, coming out next summer.
Entertainment
Greenberg v. Reed Heavyweight Bout
Roman Greenberg is the International Boxing Organization’s current intercontinental heavyweight champion. He’s won all of his professional fights, if I remember correctly it’s 25 of them, with 17 being knock-outs. On August 18th 2007 he will be facing veteran boxer Damon Reed at the South Town Exhibition Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Damon Reed is 10 years older than Roman Greenberg and will most likely be the toughest match for him in his career so far. The Greenberg versus Reed match is the headlining event along with three additional big name matches with other professionals such as David Tua, Joe Mesi and Jeremy Williams.
The scuttlebutt is that Roman Greenberg is also on a list of possible opponents to face Vitali Klitschko in a come back fight in September. The last time that Klitschko fought was in September 2004 when he fought Danny Williams.
One of Roman Greenberg’s biggest sponsors is Backgammon Masters online. They have been sponsoring him since early in his career when the decision was made that Greenberg, although unknown at the time, had great potential and was going to move quickly in his career.
Backgammon Masters is the premier online web resource for backgammon rules and information. With an extensive library of information on backgammon, how to play, links to articles and books, strategies and a thorough glossary, anyone interested in learning or getting better at the game should go check out the site but don’t forget to tune in to payperview for the Roman Greenberg v. Damon Reed heavyweight fight on August 18th.
Are You Superbad?
Sony Pictures is releasing the new movie Superbad on August 17th. From the minds of the creators behind the 40 Year Old Virgin and Talladega Nights comes Superbad, a tale about coming of age…I can relate to the dorky guys in the movie. That was me and my friends all over.
Sony even has a widget you can post on your social networking site or blog. Check this thing out. You can embed it in the sidebar of your site, or even put it in a post (obviously) like this one.
Sort of cool actually. I already have a ton of stuff in my sidebar, but I may stick it in there at least until the movie comes out.
The premise of the movie is about three guys coming of age and having to go off to college failures with women. They have one night to rectify the situation and are going to do their best. Judging from some of the clips I have seen it looks pretty hilarious. Age verification is required for some of the clips that aren’t suitable for children, oh by the way. You can also watch five Superbad videos at Youtube starting today, August 1st. Here is one of them. LMAO.
There are also free wallpapers and other downloadables such as ringtones and buddy icons at Are You Superbad? if you are interested in pimping out your phone or PC with Superbad stuff before everyone else does. You can also add these guys to your friends at Myspace. Here is Evan’s Myspace profile. Go check him and the other guys out and add them as friends or you can go over to the Facebook group and join as well. There is enough stuff out about this movie to keep you busy for quite some time to come, so get to it.
The Capo’s Mistress
Back in March I wrote a brief review of The Capo’s Mistress by Richard Harris. At that point in time you could read some of it online and the audio book was also available for download or you could listen right there online. For a brief recap you can search for “The Capo’s Mistress” in my sidebar or go straight to Richard Harris’ home page and see what the fuss is all about there. The book has finally been released and you can order it over at Amazon.
There is also another way to get a copy if you are patient unlike myself. The author is giving away ten signed copies of The Capo’s Mistress in a drawing as well as a note from the author on September 30th, 2007. Just head on over and sign up at the website. Or you could be impatient like I am with new books and order yourself a copy and sign up to win the signed copy as well. I’m not sure what is is but I have a thing for first editions and signed copies of hardcover books.
There are also some other links at the site that may be of interest such as one page that has dates, times and locations of upcoming book signings. Right now there is only one listed, but as they become available more dates will be added. You can read a bit about Richard Harris there as well in his biography.
If you listened to the audio book earlier in the year or read the three chapters that are online at The Capo’s Mistress web site leave a comment letting me know what you thought about it and whether or not you are going to order the book.
Potter Fans Keeping the Secrets…
Just finished reading this over at CNN. The article talks about how most of the fans on the Internet are doing a pretty good job at following J.K. Rowling’s wishes about keeping the ending of the book a secret at least long enough to give everyone a chance to read it. I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in about eight hours yesterday and while I will probably end up reviewing it at some point or another, you won’t find a true spoiler here.
Simpsonize Yourself
Have you seen this yet? With the release of the Simpson’s Movie there is a site called Simpsonize Yourself which allows you to upload your photo and turn yourself into a Simpsons character. Some pictures don’t seem to work very well, and it needs to be a photo with a decent resolution as well. Go check it out at www.simpsonizeme.com
If the damned thing ever finishes processing my photo I will upload it here. The ones I saw are pretty cool.
Lohan Surrenders to Police
Lindsay Lohan turned herself in to face charges of driving under the influence in connection with the Memorial Day weekend hit-and-run crash that sent her into rehab.
It really sucks when people like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton are the “heroes” and role models for our little girls. Here at the Miles casa we try and minimize that by giving them other alternatives but the fact is that the females they see on television are always going to take the forefront of what they see and hear over historical or literary figures and even the ones that seem as if they might be good choices might just go out and get caught on video driving drunk or taking it up the butt in the bushes. You just never know.
Accompanied by her attorney, the 21-year-old actress surrendered at the Beverly Hills Police Department Thursday afternoon to be fingerprinted and photographed, Officer Brian Ballieweg said.
At least her attorney was smart enough to get her to turn herself in rather than letting them show up and drag her self in.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release
Well, only about half an hour until the Harry Potter book gets released. I have enjoyed the extra traffic this week, as well as the extra Google Adsense hits that came along with it. Quite a bit more than the normal amount that I get, mainly because of my post on the Deathly Hallows Spoiler 🙂 Believe it or not I have gotten 2800+ unique visits today, about 2300 of them looking for a Harry Potter spoiler.
I amazes me how many people are actually staying up all night in anticipation of it. Harry Potter parties at book stores, heck even the local Wal-Mart is having one. I am truly amazed. I enjoy a good book as much as anyone and I am really looking forward to this one, both with anticipation as well as a little sadness since it will be the last one, but I am darn sure not going to be hanging out all night irresponsibly keeping my children up until two or three in the morning just for a darn book. It’s not like the X-Box 360. There will be plenty of them to go around and even if there isn’t haven’t you guys ever heard of Amazon? I will be receiving the book in the comfort of my mailbox tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work just like 90% of the other books that we get.
BTW, this will also be my weekend Open Track-Back post for July 20th-21st.
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Harry Potter Stars Don’t Know How It Will End…
With the impending release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tomorrow, even the stars of the movies don’t know how the series is going to end. The book should be here tomorrow but unfortunately the wife will be wanting to read it first. That’s OK though I am re-reading the two just prior and I received the latest Alan Dean Foster book in the Flinx series earlier in the week. I have plenty of stuff to keep me busy until I get to the book.
I did end up putting down the Children of Hurin though. It sucks. Put me to sleep.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix…
We don’t go see a lot of movies at the theater anymore but we did decided to have a day out of the house (it’s my off day) and take the girls to the movies and of course Harry Potter was on the agenda.
We took the girls out to eat first. Even though I know the mall is too damned expensive I was craving a Gyro, so that’s where we ate. These things seriously fill me up fast. I ate two of them once and could barely move. Had the munchies though, so it was needed but that’s a story for another time.
The movie was pretty good. I won’t post a spoiler or anything but we all enjoyed it. This was probably the darkest feeling one they have put out so far, and of course at that time the book was as well. I can’t decide if it was a good thing or not, but since the book was 600+ pages they had to cut out quite a bit of back-story which everyone already knows, as well as some of the filler stuff. Dobby was gone, as was Harry’s growing relationship with Cho, and some other stuff during the final fight “scene” with Dumbledore and Voldemort. Anyway, it was pretty good and both of the girls enjoyed the day, more so because when we left the theater we took them to the build-a-bear and let them build teddy bears.
Fucking solid gold teddy bears they may as well have been. $73 on two teddy bears. I hope they have actual shit and talk action for that price. Actually it’s not the bears that are that expensive, but once you buy outfits for each and one accessory, that’s about what it ran me. I wouldn’t let them get anything else because I am a horrible parent, or at least that’s what I told them. They have enough crap around the house without adding more clutter. The money doesn’t bother me too much. Things are looking up and the girls really had a good time, but I have to make sure to set enough aside to buy school clothes and supplies next week. Only a couple weeks left until school starts.
Originally Pete had the idea to get a U.S. Marine outfit for her bear and then give it to the boy, but you could tell that she really didn’t want to, so we told her to get what she wanted. It ended up being a cheerleader bunny and RePete got a pink bear with all pink clothes. She’s all girl. Here they are all hanging out in their coolness. I tried to get RePete to make it a biker bear but she wanted no part of that.
The camera seems to have dried out a bit. I think the big problem I was having in Hilton Head was that we were getting in and our of the air conditioned car into the heat and humidity, so it fogged up the camera. Oh well.
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Well, I hunted down the book. I need to go ahead and reread it and the Half-Blood prince before the new one comes next weekend. I do have a bit of leeway as the wife gets first crack at it and I recently ordered a new Alan Dean Foster book as well that I will probably read first. I finally gave up on the newest Tolkien book. It sucks.