Ray guns!

I have to admit it. I am an addict. I am addicted to ray guns. I just can't get enough of them. I think they are awesome and cool and sleek and nerdy and cool. Now mind you I wouldn't tote one of these babies around town or anything, but I would most definitely display one of these prominently in my living room. If only I were a millionaire! Or at least made a living wage!

Anyway, in the first of what will probably be many posts about ray guns, I will set the standards for what constitutes awesomeness way higher than I really have any right to. Check out these awesome specimens made by, of course, Weta Workshop.



It's hard to really do these pictures justice, so if you have time you really should click through to the site, where you can minutely inspect every crevice and nook in astonishing detail.

Now I think these are just made (for fun? no no, look at the prices) as an independent project, since as far as I can tell they aren't attached to any movie. If they were, I would probably go see it in a heartbeat, but for now I will just have to ogle from my computer screen. My favorite one if probably the Righteous Bison because I just love saying it so much. I also like the blunderbuss, but only because I think "blunderbuss" is a funny word. I think I want to put that I was shot by a blunderbuss on my tombstone, because then everyone would think I was cool.

Anyway, I want to post these here because eventually we are going to try and make a ray gun. I'm sure they won't be as awesome as these (because if they were I'm sure Weta would try and hire us the boy), but I think we can do pretty well with a trip to Home Depot and the use of the most awesome book I have stowed away in a box somewhere. It may or may not be functional. Stay tuned!

The ABC's of Nerdiness

I love looking at alphabet books. They always have the neatest illustrations in them. But even the very coolest one I've ever seen (it was about kitties!) cannot compare to these awesome pictures. These are made by an awesome artist named Neil Cameron--the alphabet is an ongoing project, and he is taking suggestions for future letters! I think he is up to "R" at this point. Check out some of my favorites!



I like this one. Inebriated Iron Man is pretty hilarious, if you think about it. Though I guess Tony Stark is an alcoholic, so it's not that much of a stretch--still, I love all of the beer splashed on his armor.

Poor Pika!I wonder if people with letters as names have a support group or something? And if they did, would Q blink them into a fight with the Borg?

There's many more nerdy letters over at his website, so be sure to take a look over there. Stay tuned!

Yes please

Yes I would like this please thank you very much. How awesome are these bookends?

Oh Georgy. I promised you I would never give you money ever again after those awful prequel movies and your childish, petty refusal to put the original THX editions on DVD, but now here you are with this awesome bookend set and I'm ready to fork over some more cash. Of course at $190 these bookends aren't an impulse purchase, but they look awesome and I covet them. They sure as hell wouldn't be holding any prequel DVDs, not in this house no sir, but I have some lovely Star Wars books that would look mighty nice.

Anyway, these don't even ship out until April 2010, so I hope no one is too excited about these. I guess it gives you enough time to start saving up your pennies though. Stay tuned!


via Gizmodo.

YOU SUCK, ThinkGeek: Updated

I hate April Fool's day. It's bad enough that idiots are running around thinking it's funny to put whoopee cushions on people's seats (or whatever it is people do for April Fool's day) but major corporations always have to get involved. They will announce something so totally awesome, something that everyone has been waiting for, and then it will turn out to be a prank. Last year I think it was the Zelda trailer that looked absolutely real, and so many people were excited about it and it turned out to be fan made. I'm sure a FFVII port was announced on April Fool's day too (even though I don't really care about that, I'm sure some people would have been mad). Not cool.

Anyway, check out this awesome new product ThinkGeek revealed today.

It's a freaking tauntaun sleeping bag. Yeah. How cute is that? Take a close look at the inside of the sleeping bag--it looks like intestines. And the zipper pull? Yeah, it's a tiny lightsaber. So you can use a freaking lightsaber to open your tauntaun before you sleep in it. And the head doubles as a pillow. And look at his tail! So cute.

Now I wasn't thinking about April Fool's day when I was looking at this, because I'm not five and because I assumed I was browsing the items of a competent, respectable and well established website. Long story short, I was getting ready to shell out $40 for a sleeping bag that is made for 7-13 year olds and comes up to my neck that I could never use, only to find out that it is a fake. Well screw you ThinkGeek! You don't want my money, that's fine. Of course, now I'm going to have to shell out considerably more to make it myself--because I am most definitely going to make it myself--but I would have rather given money to someone else to make it for me. Well, it's a good thing you don't like money, ThinkGeek. You can go back to selling your crappy "I heart Geeks" T-shirts now, you piece of crap. Blargh.

PS--I really am mad about this, because I really didn't want to make it myself. Of course mine is going to look a lot nicer and it's actually going to fit an adult size person, but this is possibly the most awesome thing I've ever seen and I'm mad that I have to go hunt around for tauntaun-looking fabric and intestine fabric. Blargh.

UPDATE: All right, commenter Heather has just informed me that ThinkGeek has announced that they are actually going to make this thing, so I am slightly less angry at them. They just have to get approval from Lucas first (yeah right). Now I just have to decide if I want to go ahead and make it anyway or if I am too lazy. Perhaps my spitefulness will win out over laziness, who knows.

I love Joss Whedon

Hey guys, remember when I wrote how Crochet Me was trying to get an interview with Joss Whedon because he mentioned, in passing, "Where's our write-up in Crocheting Monthly?" Well they freaking did it! They got an interview with Joss Whedon! I can't believe it. You can read the whole article here. And here's the woman who made it happen! Look what she's holding!
Awww, hi Jayne!

Here's a really cute quote by Joss Whedon from the article:
"You know, anything that inspires people to make their own little version of something be it puppety, be it crafty, be it a high school production of lip syncing, whatever it is, it's the best kind of review you could ever get for any works. It's just cool. I always want things to become plush."

Bah! It's so cute. I can't believe he actually did an interview! That's so cool. He even talks about the Jayne hat and it's significance. It's a really great interview. I know I'm totally gushing and incoherent, but I'm really excited about it.

And for those of you who don't know (like me, 5 minutes ago) Dr. Horrible goes on sale next Friday, December 19. My birthday! Yay! Anyway, it sounds like they are going to include some really great features, so I think it's going to be a definite buy.

So no more news for now! I hope everyone is having a great December, getting ready for Christmas and the like. Stay tuned for more dudes soon!