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You take the good..

Apr11
2011 1 Comment Written by rob

..and take the bad, you take them both, and there you have…   some good looking ladies from the 80′s !

The 9th annual TV Land awards happened this past weekend, and were treated to a whole schwack of pictures from some of our favorite stars of the 80′s.

For me, the most notable pictures came from the Facts of Life crew and the team from Family Ties.

Here’s a picture of the some of the FOL gals. Jo (Nancy Mckeon)  and Blair (Lisa Welchel) have aged well, although Jo really looks like Courtney Cox in this photo. I have no idea who the lady on the left is. tootie showed up late so missed the photo ops and I think there were some of Natalie (Mindy Cohn) floating aorund.. but..  let’s move on…

.. to the team from Family Ties. Look at this crew.. just seeing them all together brings back some warm fuzzy memories. Geez, Michael Gross and Merideth Baxter barely looked like they aged, and Michael Fox looks great!

But wait you say.. where’s Justine Bateman and Tina Yothers.. have no fear!

Here’s Justine Bateman..  more or less looking the same. What’s with the eye liner though..   yikes !   Although, the leather boots and bracelets look pretty Xena, and that’s never a bad thing.

.. and here’s Darren’s fantasy girl from the 80′s, Tina Yothers. Looking, completely unlike Tina Yothers. I’ve only seen a handful of pictures of her over the years and she always looks different.

All in all, some pretty entertaining photos and nice to see how well everyone looks. Seeing Michael J Fox though gets me all warm and fuzzy inside for the Back to the Future movies. Come on scientists, find a cure for Parkinson’s already, we need some Fox back!

Oh, and before we close out, how could we not include the cornerstone of the Family Ties show, Skippy.

I’m going to assume Skippy doesn’t get out much anymore. I have the feeling he spent the entire award show trying to rub up against Justine Bateman..   that wasn’t acting on the show, the was certified, down-home, and fully realistic stalking. Why do you think he looks so happy here, and Justine looks like she just shit in her pants?

Oh, and for nostalgia sakes, let’s hit the themes..

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036: The Triumvirate of Awesomeness

Apr10
2011 2 Comments Written by rob

Joni Mitchell’s Mingus:

So it seems the cat is out of the bag, the camel is out of the kitchen and Monte’s python has permanently blinded his last little person. Yes the rumors are true, the beloved Thirtynothings have thrown their collective hats (one top-hat, one fez and three propeller beanies) into the ring and are running for office! Buoyed by a groundswell of grassroots public support and little orange water-wings, the Thirtynots political platform mostly consists of these hot button topics; girls getting soccer paunched by a robot with a shot-put, Arnie’s sad sad tune, dirty sexy Asian frying pans, and the legalization of private self-gratification. After the press release went public a campaign supporter politely told our boys that private self-gratification had actually never been made illegal, shortly thereafter our titans of political savvy announced that all their most pressing concerns had been met and that they were retiring from the political grind. They then all went to their respective bathrooms and locked the doors behind them. Rob and Jules’s secret musical topic for this episode “Actually this city was built mostly on asphalt and concrete…”

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Celebrity Tribute #3 – Super Dolph

Apr08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by rob

After highlighting Bolo Yeung in our last Celebrity Tribute, I thought it would be a nice transition into another action superstar and potential Expendables 2 co-star to Bolo Yeung.. Dolph Lundgren.

Dolph of course got famous for the role of Ivan Drago in Rocky 4 after beating out over 500 candidates for the role.. he literally beat them out.. of conciousness. He actually got his start a year earlier in a View to a Kill as a bond thug like villain, because he was dating Grace Jones at the time .. (ARGHH!! ) and things snowballed from there.

Speaking of which.. here’s some partially nude photos of the two of them.. (have fun not sleeping tonight).

After that Dolph got a string of action roles.. and strangely enough, to this very day.. stars almost exclusivey in action movies. You know why.. he’s a mans man and can’t be bothered gettung sappy and emotional in his acting. Crush, Smash, Kill.. that is the Dolph way. So, pretty all his stuff in the past.. oh two decades has been straight to video.. who cares. If you get a chance to check out any of the movies, there are some gems.. much like the works of JCVD and Seagal. And keep in mind, Dolph is still a huge a big star in Europe even if he has fallen off the big bidget aciton wagon in North America here.

So, he’s a karate champion, army vet, and has his masters in chemical engineering. He’s been in over 50 films, dated super models, and is loved by pretty everyone he works with.. he’s a nice guy. Is there anything he can’t do? According to the following video. I would argue no.. he can do it all.

I’m personally extremely excited to see him back for Expendables 2, and he’s even back in the newest Universal Soldier movie, going head to head with Van Damme once again.

Let’s just hope he passes on the movie where his head is a dog nose and he smells crime before it happens, and does full penetration with his lab assistant on screen.

http://sunny-in-philadelphia.otavo.tv/tag/dolph-lundgren

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The Governator

Apr04
2011 Leave a Comment Written by rob

Umm.. well, how do I start. I’m assuming that as one of Arnold’s biggest fans, the whole internet community has been waited with baited breath on how I’d come out on the Governator news.

Even though the announcement came out last week, I was just holding off in case it was some sort of April Fools joke… I was sort of hoping it was. But nope.. it’s real.

Oh Arnie.. what the fuck are you doing? This seriously looks like a horrible cartoon. I mean, what’s your demographic. Obviously for the cartoon your going for a young one.. but in all reality, your real life demographic are the 30′ish plus guys like me. I guess you have to maintain a more wholesome image or something.. but .. ugh.


We’ve got a Arnold cave, super suits, a 13 year old “tech” wiz.. oh man, I don’t know. I think the clincher for how bad this is going to be was the acronym for the evil organization he fights against.. .. Gansters, Imposters, Racketeers, Liars, Irdeemable Ex-Cons.. G.I.R.L.I.E. men.. oh man.

I’m think the only way.. ONLY way this ends up having any merit is if it’s really tongue in cheek and play homage to all the movie roles you did in the past. You know, throw out some obscure references to Red Heat and wrestling naked in the snow.. talk about biting a vulture in Conan while being crucified. Give something to us older fans who don’t want to watch this dribble.

I’m still hoping you decide to some action projects. Not as a regular action star, but getting into Expendables 2, doing a True Lies follow-up, or even the rumoured Crusaders movie.. come on man.. you can do it.. or mayeb you can’t? That’s probably the whole twist here.. maybe the years have caught up with you.

You know what.. even is you just throw out some nostalgia projects for us die hards. Voice a Conan cartoon! Or why not a Terminator cartoon.. these could work. I’ll check out maybe the 4th or 5th episode and see how things look.. but I’m thinking this thing is gonna be dropped faster than Sully in Commando.

The Governator.. *sigh*

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Brock on Jimmy

Mar29
2011 Leave a Comment Written by rob

Since the Thirtynothings are both fans of Jimmy Fallon and the UFC.. and your obviously a fan of the Thirtynothings, hopefully you get as much entertainment out of this clip as I did.

Brock is a scary dude.

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Severing your own Arm..

Mar26
2011 Leave a Comment Written by rob

So, I’ve been thinking lately about having to sever my own arm. Hooooo boy would that ever suck. As much as it would suck though, I’m quite convinced I’d be able to do it if it was life or death.

If your wondering what I’m talking about, I am indeed making references towards 127 hours. I watched it recently, and while I enjoyed the movie and what the dude had to do, you have to admit it was a pretty poor choice. See, that would never happen to me .. ever. I’m never gonna go biking 20 miles offroad. I’m definitely not going rock climbing.. or hiking or everything else Aron Rolston was doing. More importantly, I wouldn’t be doing it alone or without letting my wife and baby know.

So, my chances or having to do this are pretty slim. Except, I can 100% see something like this happening to me. I tend to do shit like this all the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1287092/Man-built-courage-amputate-arm-thinking-resourceful-TV-agent-MacGyver.html

So, yeah, trying to fix something around the house, get my arm trapped .. and boom, there you go. It’s a scary premise. I think what’s makes most of these stories even more terrifying than they should be..  is that the people always have to end up cutting off their arm with shitty equipment. Things like rusty pocketknives, cheap multitools, and this guy..  a garden hoe..  ?! God damn, that dude has some balls.  

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/6286183/Trapped-man-cut-off-own-leg-after-Indonesian-earthquake.html

There are couple things that all of us can take away fomr these other guys horrific stories.

a) Don’t climb rocks or ride bicycles

b) Don’t live in indonesia

c) Keep your garden equipment razor sharp at all times

d) Don’t do any or your own handiman repairs ..  ever.

e) Carry as many knives with you that you can at all times.

So, there you go..  a few simple rules. Follow those and it can either prevent you from having to cut your own limb off, or help you out if you find yourself needing to do some cutting.

Here’s a few extra links for your personal limb cutting off pleasure.

This poor sap cut his leg off just as a helper showed up.. oops!

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/52237-the-man-who-cut-off-his-own-leg-but-didnt-need-to

Here’s Aron Ralston explaining his arm cuttting techniques..  nerve cluster.. ugh!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0724_030724_AronRalston.html

Might as well learn now how to do it right. I’m ready !!

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2010/06/16/how-to-cut-off-your-own-arm-in-an-emergency/

And this is fantastic.. like a field guide of olden days limb cutting.. 

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/amputation-arm.htm

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The New Conan

Mar18
2011 1 Comment Written by rob

Well, the new Conan movie is getting closer.. whoopie.

The first Conan movie was so good, and even that was a bit off the actual character from the Robert Howard books. Conan has so many awesome and great stories, fantastic art work and a history spanning several decaes.. why do they keep coming with ideas for crappy tv shows, movies and cartoons. Ugh.. it makes me mad!


Who knows though, maybe I’m just jaded because it’s another person trying to fill Arnold’s shoes. Not that I believe Arnold ever truly represented Howard’s Conan.. but he represented Arnold’s Conan which was pretty awesome in it’s own right. Oh well, I guess we’ll see. I’ll still be lining up opening night .. in the end, we’ve got swords and sorcery so it can’t all be bad.

There is only one thing that this movie now has going for it. I have such low expectations, and I believe it’ll be such a bad movie.. that it will probably be impossible to let me down. The same happened with the Scorpion King, and I actually came out moderately pleased. We’ll have to see what happens.. maybe the awesome 3D’ness of it will save everything..

Oh, and hey, speaking of 3D, look..   3D pooooooooooster.  Ooooooo…

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034: The Motorcross Conspiracy

Feb23
2011 2 Comments Written by rob

Tranny Tippin’:

Humans Beware! Created by the brilliant Dr. V the RoboThirtyNots are found to be extremely capable at fighting crime and saving the lives of naked teen girls but are unable to understand humans concepts like love, honor and lavish nonsensical dance numbers. Though it pains him to do do it, Dr. V disassembles the poor boys and throws their parts in the bangla-dump. These parts are then retrieved by the evil Aishwarya Rai and reassembled along with sinister new programming. These programs include; being down with OCP in DRC, getting fitted for Fleshlights at the rubber dong show, giving Jennifer Love Hewitt “just the tip” and other assorted nonsense. Naturally the Thirtybots go on a killing spree, forming themselves into giant snakes, whirling balls of machine-gun death and other geometric shapes of destruction. They eventually die of boredom when they realize that the damn thing runs for over three hours. Jason’s secret topic for this episode “Legerdemain, is it really in your Bollywood?”

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Arnie’s Best

Feb22
2011 Leave a Comment Written by rob

So, being the self proclaimed big Arnie fan I am (kiss my ass Biggie), and with the encouragement of my co-workers, I thought I’d put together my list of Arnie’s top movies. I’m sure it will definitely differ from the normal everyday person, and or course the movie critic, but I don’t think it breaks to far.

I can’t see Commando making it to the top on most people’s lists, but for me, the movie is so simple and executes what it wants to do so cleanly and thoroughly, that it’s #1 for me. I’ve probably seen Commando a good 30+ times in my life. Plus John Matrix is one of toughest SOB’s in movie history. As well, Conan at #3 might seem a bit of an odd choice. There are couple scenes in Conan that I could do without, but the grittiness of the movie, combined with fantastic fight scenes make it one of the best fantasy movies ever made. Arnold in the movie is just icing on the cake.

From a critic stand point, Terminator, T2, True Lies and Pumping Iron probably come out as the best overall “films”, and can probably pull in the widest audience interest. However, for a Arnold fan, you get the list below which encompasses overall movie, screen presence, and character Arnie was portraying. 

1. Commando 

2. Predator

3. Conan the Barbarian

4. T2

5. True Lies

6. Terminator

7. Total Recall

8. The Running Man

9. Red Heat

10. Pumping Iron

11. Eraser

12. Twins

13. Kindergarten Cop

14. End of Days

15. Terminator 3

16. Conan the Destroyer

17. Last Action Hero

18. The 6th Day

19. Red Sonja

20. Raw Deal

21. Junior

22. Jingle all the Way

23. Collateral Damage

24. Hercules in New York

25. Batman and Robin

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Celebrity Tribute #2: Busty Bolo

Feb04
2011 Leave a Comment Written by rob

Ahh, Bolo Yeung. A staple of 70′s and 80′s martial arts movies. Most people will probably know Bolo from his most famous role as Chong Li from Bloodsport. You know, the “Brinck don’t hit back” guy. I’ll keep a review of Bloodsport for another post, but as a purveyor of alot of martial arts movies, I can never really understand why I like Bloodsport so much.. but I do.. I love it! It’s not the acting and it’s definitely not the fighting. I really think it’s a combination of all the cheesey 80′s elements, a JCVD is his prime, and a giant pecced Bolo… I guess. Again, I really don’t know.

What I do know is that Bolo has been in alot of damn movies. He started studying martial arts at a very young age in China. Shortly afterwards, he developed an interest in bodybuilding and went on to become the Hong Kong bodybuilding champion for 10 years. It was his massive physique that eventually got him some acting roles, and eventually led to working with Bruce Lee. They became friends and Bruce got Bolo to take a role in Enter the Dragon as .. Bolo. Another recurring theme, he plays alot of roles in movies where the character’s he’s playing is named..  Bolo.

From there, the martial arts roles really took off. He was in almost 40 movies in the 70′s and over 30 in the 80′s. Most of them were low budget, crazy martial arts movies, and while he became quite famous in China, he was still relatively unknown in the west until he filmed Bloodsport. After that, he had a string of higher budgeted action movies like Double Impact (another JCVD flick), Shootfighter, Tiger Claws 1 & 2 (great martial arts movies) and of course, TC 2000. Who can forget the cover of that movie case with a greased up menacing looking Billy Blanks on the cover. 

The guy is 65 this year, and still looking good. He appeared with JCVD last year at the Budo Gala for a little on stage chit chat and yeah, he still had some size about him.

So, your probably asking, “Rob, why the hell are you bringing this up?” I like Bolo, sure. I was thinking about making him the 2nd celebrity tribute a long time ago, but couldn’t find a good reason to just talk about him, and I forgot. Although Sho Kosugi almost got number 2 when Ninja Assassin came out.

Well, in recent weeks /days, Bolo’s name has been tied to Expendables 2. Yep. How awesome is that? I mean, he won’t whipping off his shirt to have a pose down with any of the other guys at 65, but .. come on. He’s a martial arts legend and I think a fantastic addition to the role of.. “Killer”. Hmm, I guess slightly better than naming the character Bolo. I’m assuming he’ll be a bad guy or something… he’s built his whole career around being the bad guy so why stop now.

Anyway, thanks for sharing in a little Bolo appreciation with me. A long time ago, someone sent me a poem they had come across about Bolo Yeung. I think it was Darren, or Karl, or maybe even Mike.. I can’t remember exactly, but I do remember the echoing theme of the poem. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not gay for Bolo or anything, but the line always stuck in my head because it was so ridiculous, so I share that part of it with you now.

I’m tired of always making love solo, how I long for my beautiful Bolo.

See you in the Expendables 2 Bolo !

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