FREEDOM (2007)

Buy it in HD! Buy it on Blu-Ray!

Positive Experience/Entertaining? Definitely a fun anime-nicely written and worth seeing, but maybe not for the price Amazon is asking.

Technically any good? The story is cliche, but in a good way (for the most part). I am …

Economic Crash Now Directly Risking Human Lives

I first found this Salon article through a posting at DisInfo.com a great Digg alternative for folks who like to think for themselves but still like to see what sites/articles other, like-minded, folks are checking out. The Salon.com article in question is entitled "Is …

Economic Armageddon Narrowly Averted According to Dem Rep

I think I found the original version of this clip via a Tweet from theeconomysucks but what it talks about is pretty damn newsworthy and I'm a little surprised that it didn't merit some sort of mention in the American mainstream media when the event occurred. …

MATEWAN (1987)

Buy it!

Positive Experience/Entertaining? Wow-what a great movie. Powerful and depressing that these events really happened.

Technically any good? It was a little disjointed, probably due to the fact that it was based on real life, but generally, it was very well …

ObamaWatch: Letting Us Down on Civil Liberties

Maybe President Amabo would do it right?

See how wrong all those racists are? A black guy can be as lame as a white guy! But I'm getting ahead of myself.

So, these five guys were in countries other than America. They were literally snatched from the street, …

SATURN 3 (1980)

Buy it!

Positive Experience/Entertaining? Haha, positive? Sure, if you count seeing Farah Fawcett's nude boobs for a split second. But definitely, if you count seeing Kirk Douglas' nude butt for much longer. Yep, before Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises, there …

In Case You Missed It: At Least 78 Billion Lost in TARP

Yeah, this kind of thing cracks me up. While the Republifools are freaking out about the Citizen's Bailout bill that just passed the Senate, no one seems to be raising a big stink about $78 billion being lost when the USG paid $176 billion for $254 billion of bank …

Amazon's Kindle 2: ThePete's Take: Better, but Wait for Kindle 3

The new Kindle 2 has been announced by Amazon.com and while I like it better than I did the original Kindle, I still think it has a seriously limited feature set for the price.

The Good News

The thing that makes me salivate for the Kindle 2 is its new design. …

Republican Sez Path to Disaster Ahead if Stimulus Bill Passes, Cute How He Tries, Isn't It?

As if the Republicans have ANY credibility with America left at all, some Republitard called Shelby has announced that the current stimulus bill will send us down "a road to financial disaster."

...as opposed to the last two bailout bills, passed under Republicans, …

INTERNATIONAL (2009) (Preemptive Strike)

Watch the trailer

Positive Experience/Entertaining? Well, the trailer was fun to watch, but it seems to suggest a great premise gone terribly Hollywood.

Technically any good? The premise is interesting enough-lone intel expert discovers a global bank has been …

Edges of American Civilization Breaking Down

Seems like a heavy headline, but it's true.

What else can you call it when folks in a rural Alaskan village can no longer afford basic foodstuffs or the fuel to go where they can afford basic foodstuffs OR revert to living off of the land because climate change …

toys.thepete.com: Rainbow Peace Fighter

toys.thepete.com: Rainbow Peace Fighter, originally uploaded by thepetecom.

I did the Rainbow Peace Fighter back in late-ish 2007, not long after visiting the Palm Springs Air Museum. When ever I come face to face with my old passion of military flight (I got as …

KBR charged with bribing Nigerian officials for contracts - CNN.com

via cnn.com

I wonder if the Obama administration will care as much about law enforcement as the Bush Administration did. Making sure these guys see jail time (and not just fines like most corporations get) would be a good thing.

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LAST EXILE (2003)

Buy it! www.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26tag%3Dmozilla-20%26index%3Dblended%26link%255Fcode%3Dqs%26field-keywords%3Dlast%2520exile%26sourceid%3DMozilla-search&tag=thepetecom-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957">Or click here to check out other volumes in the series!

Positive Experience/Entertaining? If you like flying ships and/or well developed (but slightly stereotypical) characters, Last Exile is for you. Wow did I enjoy the hell out of this anime …

Boycott Kellogg's for Poisoning Us, Not for Ditching Phelps

Thomas Hawk suggests on his blog that we boycott Kellogg's cereals because they dropped Michael Phelps as a spokesperson for Corn Flakes cereal.  As we all have heard, the polygoldmedallic Olympic athlete was caught on camera sucking on a bong (you suck on bongs, …

Cole Bombing Charges Dropped-What the Hell?

OK, when I saw this headline, I have to admit that I thought "See that? Another faulty terrorist case! Looks like the USG can't catch a real terrorist to save their lives."

Then I realized, that's not what this story is about. According to that article at

Toy2R Includes ThePete as One of 66 Contributing Artists from Around the World!

Ah, this is kinda sweet :) I was included as one of the 66 contributing toy artists for Toy2R's custom, 363 Qee Bear that they put together during the 2008 Hong Kong Award for Industries ceremony. According to a recent post on the US Toy2R blog, Qee4All.com, they …

toys.thepete.com: Charlie Mad

Charlie Mad started out life as a blank Mini Munny from Kid Robot. I bought him, opened the box and found some horrible person had already done the same thing, only they'd managed to break his arm off before putting him back in the box.

Lame!

However, rather than …

ORGUSS 02 (1993)

Anime Friday returns with the final installment of my Macross-related anime reviews! (I'm sure you're so excited!) I've watched and Pocket-Reviewed everything even tangentially related to Macross (assuming it was in Japanese) and it's been a lot of fun (and painful at …

ThePete, Siskita & Jay ThePal on the Hucklebug Part 2 (TheVlog for 20090129)

Yesterday, I posted part one of highlights of the video we shot of us recording our appearance on the Hucklebug podcast. The footage starts me (ThePete), Siskita and Jay ThePal and does contain profanity. The video is definitely rated PG-13. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. :P