Subtle Bluntness

This video is fucking sexy.  Enjoy some film-nerd porn.

After having sat on the review for an entire week, today is the release date for my Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls review.  It’s about time March 3 got here, because I’ve been going nuts talking the book up in private but without any recourse to spew my review upon the reading public.  Now it’s out there, and I feel much better.

I got the book pretty quickly after I was approved for the blog program, which was impressive in and of itself.  More impressive was the fact that I basically picked up the book one day, randomly, and had my review finished by that same time the next day.  I tore through the book like a zombie at a meat processing plant.  It really is a great, funny read if you know anything about Victorian England.

Perhaps more importantly, you can win a free copy of the book and a bunch of other stuff.  Just head over to Quirk’s forum, sign up and register (I know it’s a bitch, but there’s like $100 worth of freebies up for grabs for 50 people) and let them know where you saw it. Either here, PopFi, or DoG works, since Quirk knows they’re all me.  Make me look good, readership.  If you somehow don’t manage to win, you can just buy the book for $8.73 at Amazon (or 80 cents if you use a Kindle).  It’s definitely worth the purchase.

Guess who got linked on Cracked today?  If you said me, you’d be right.  Check out the image for #13, specifically the last link.  That’s my PopFi, all right.

At this point, between Cracked, Fark, Google, and the IMDb links?  I’m pretty much bigger than Jesus.

So I saw Cop Out, and I’m in the minority since I actually enjoyed the movie.  For me, it works as a direct homage to those 80’s buddy cop movies, before they got all worn out by overuse.  Most people apparently didn’t dig it, but I liked it and apparently the audience did too, since it was second in the top 10 this weekend.

I also managed to get out and see The Crazies, the 2010 Breck Eisner remake of the 1973 George Romero virus panic horror flick, except this time The Crazies are basically zombies, and the Romero framework is used to support a greatest-hits of postmodern zombie movies.  I also enjoyed it, and it seems more people enjoyed it than did Cop Out, at least in terms of critical indices and whatnot.  Not like I care what critics say, but it’s nice to know I’m not the only person out there in the wilderness, screeching at the top of my lungs that a movie is adequately entertaining.

This is my 500th blog post here at Subtle Bluntness.  Let’s ring it in with a Feel Good Friday, because most of these posts have been link-dumps, random brain dumps, and subjecting you, my loyal readership, to Feel Good Friday songs for no apparent reason.  So let’s get a little mellow, a little reflective, and maybe even a little funky.

If you have any love of funk, soul, or 70’s music, you really need to subscribe to Funktuall’s YouTube channel.  This cat is the best.  I wish I could put together interesting videos like this (or any videos).

Thanks for stopping by.

Tickle Me Carlo Lombardi doesn't like to be disappointed.

“Yeah, and I made him sticky so he’s even MORE fun!”

So, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that there’s going to be a big-screen World of Warcraft movie.  There’s no sense fighting it.  It’s not in developmental hell, Sam Raimi is producing it as we speak, and Robert “Saving Private Ryan” Rodat is hard at work on the script.  Just accept it; this thing is going to happen because they’ve already pumped a bunch of money into it.

Fortunately, we’re not so far into production that I can’t offer my suggestions to all involved.  Here are the 10 things I want from the World of Warcraft movie.  Why 10?  Because people love lists of things in nice, round numbers, and there’s nothing rounder than 10, except maybe 8.

I could’ve done this last week for Valentine’s Day, but screw it.  Any time is a good time for A) the mighty Rev. and B) a ride on the Big Red Rocket Of Love.  Plus, bonus trip back into the Original Cone Zone!  Can’t go wrong with that.

Let’s go!

EDIT: Apparently, you don’t have to change anything.  My changing the feeds around on the back end handled it all.  Continue on about your business.

I hate doing anything to the back end of websites.  If I have to go in and start messing around with code and plug-ins, and anything not related to dirt simple coding and writing, then I fall into a state of gibbering panic.  Why?  Well, for the most part, I’m afraid of making some simple mistake and ruining everything.  Here’s an example:

I’ve been messing around with the PopFi back end.  There’s not a lot of RSS subscribers, maybe 70 or so, but just in case the site ever explodes with serious, dedicated readers, I’d like to go ahead and have a feed set up that allows me to publicize with ads, and I’d also like to know more about what people are reading and whatnot.  So I figured I’d set up Feed Burner.  Now, PopFi already has an RSS feed with subscribers, so I wanted a way to move them all over to click through FeedBurner without being big and public about resubscribing to the new feed so I can gouge them for advertising pennies.

Fortunately, as the Apple ads say, there’s an app for that.  Technically, it’s a plug-in, but whatever.  Same difference.  And, fortunately, it was already installed in PopFi’s back end; I guess Adams put it in there and never used it.  Either way, I activate it and hopefully set it up.  Does it work?  I have no idea.  Will I ever know if it works?  Probably not.

Either way, the new PopFi feed is here (http://feeds.feedburner.com/PopularFidelity) and if you would like to resubscribe, I will be most grateful.  If you don’t, then I’m not worried about that either because hopefully I’ve redirected things the right way and it shouldn’t matter.  I also changed the Subscribe to Popfi chiclet at the top of the website, updated the copyright information, and next I’ll be changing the contact form to point it to the actual Popfi admin Gmail account (whenever I remember what it is).

If you have any problems with it, just let me know.  Cheers!

Author’s note:  To give you an idea of how paranoid I am about these changes, I made them one at a time (yes, even the one where I added -2010 next to 2007 by the copyright notification), then refreshed both PopFi and the PopFi RSS feed a dozen times to make sure it was working.  I’m not sure if the ads are running yet; I guess I’ll find that out tomorrow/Monday/whenever I post next.  So long as the main site stays up, I could not care less about the RSS feed (provided the one everyone subscribes to still works; I didn’t remove it so technically it should be there).