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• Banned Books Week and "most challenged titles" of 2008! http://bit.ly/4FQSN #
• Aaalllrright: FIGHT CLUB is finally available on BluRay. About damn time. Takes the sting out of TRANSFORMERS' arrival. http://shar.es/1GviQ #

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• Tonight I learned: I suck even more at ROCK BAND drums than I do at the pretend guitar. Massive lulz, as the tweens say… #fb #
• Here at Prince Pucklers with the boys…way past their bedtime. Maybe they'll sleep in, but I have my doubts. #

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Age Of Innocence

Here’s “The 20 Most Boring Films of All Time“, according to Pajiba commenters.

I genuinely like at least 7 of the 20 films. And whenever a fancy new video format (widescreen, dvd, blu-ray) appears I always make sure my first purchases are for films with real beauty. Usually #1 on my list (and sadly also on this one…): 2001: A Space Odyssey

Luckily, some reason appeared if you made it far enough down the comments to the response of “Yossarian”:

What is really notable about this list is it is sort of a backlash against more complex films that got some media attention and, as a result, were exposed to a lot of people who didn’t really appreciate them.

When you say a film was boring what you really mean is that it doesn’t engage your attention. Instead of taking this failure to appeal to you as a flaw in the movie you should know that it’s probably just you. Of course there are bad movies out there, but they don’t usually get Oscar nominations.

I thank you, anonymous internet commenter…

• In the dark days before Sunday Ticket…this would've been a big deal for me: 2009 NFL TV maps http://bit.ly/2HKZl7 #
• Video of the Day: Tree of Life http://foxyurl.com/uyv *Make sure you switch to the HQ version! [via MAKE ~ thanks!] #fb #
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Arkham Asylum

I’m drinking the kool-aid on the new Batman: Arkham Asylum game. Not only is it just plain fun to run, jump, and swoop around as Batman, knocking the beJeebus out of (literally) clown-faced thugs…but it also reminded me (in a good way) of the graphic novel poem that made me a Batman fanboy in the first place: Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean (pictured).

The Beatles : Rock Band (duh)

Thanks to some awesome amazon-birthday-gift-card presents from my parents, I’ve already got 2 other games pre-ordered and on deck: Beatles: Rock Band(you might have heard of that one) … and the sequel to Assassin’s Creed, the aptly named Assassin’s Creed II.

There’s been quite a lot of griping about the flaws in the first AC [repetitive missions, pointless flag-collecting, unskippable (and long) cut-scenes, etc.], however I really enjoyed the way the developers had created these massive, detailed cities, over which you could run and jump along, climbing towers and nearly everything in sight. It was probably the first game I’ve ever played in which I felt in tune with the control scheme and therefore connected to the character’s movements onscreen. Anyway…I’m looking forward to the sequel.

Here’s a recent video walkthrough of some AC2 action: