The Winchester

On July 17, 2007, I posted a blog with an opening line about a commercial I saw the night before. Instead of writing about that commercial, I put up a bunch of pictures of He-Man figures I used to own. I'm not sure why I did this, but I did. So there you go. I have decided it is now time to talk about the commercial. I said in that blog, the commercial made me think, People will buy anything . I was correct in this assumption. The commercial's intensity follows in the footsteps of Girls Gone Wild and available DVD's such as those. It does not, however, match the content. Instead, this DVD series is about.... .... ....wait for it.... ....Trains. It was a commercial for a DVD series called Lots & Lots of Trains . The announcer comes in with something asking if you love trains and here comes Lots & Lots of Trains. Along with this scintillating talk comes an MTV-style montage of train footage. Big trains, small trains, fast trains, slow trains, red fish, blue fish, one ...

I just read a story over on Ain't It Cool News that caused my blood to turn cold. Apparently, The Powers That Be in Hollywood are planning on making Ace Ventura 3 . Normally, I would stand and applaud this decision, and explain to those I socialize with how great of an idea this really and truly is. I cannot do that, unfortunately. They are making it without Jim Carrey. "How is that even possible?" you ask with shock and no awe. Well, it seems they will be using the premise that has always worked so well in the past with sequels. It will be Ace Ventura's son that has the adventure. Something about a panda. It doesn't matter. This hasn't worked before, and will not work now. I loved Dumb & Dumber . The sequel sucked. Or prequel, I guess. Why was it so bad? Because Jim Carrey wasn't in it. If you are going to a sequel, you must have both Carrey and Daniels. Take a look at all the good sequels out there. Even good spinoffs. They have somet...