{"id":17552,"date":"2010-06-06T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-sun-6-jun-10-1400-3.html"},"modified":"2010-06-06T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T18:00:43","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-6-jun-10-1400-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-sun-6-jun-10-1400-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 6-Jun-10 1400)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Battle Beyond The Stars<\/a> – Man, I loved this movie. Given some of the talent behind it, that’s not surprising in retrospect.<\/li>\n
  2. A TV Commercial for a Comic? Why, I Never!<\/a> – Sounds like a fine idea to me. (Plus, Fables rocks.)<\/li>\n
  3. Movie Thor Shops at the Same Store as Movie Captain America<\/a> – It’s SPACE THOR! No, really, this costume looks way too hard and plastic and shiny. Not the worst thing that could happen regarding the Thor movie, but …<\/li>\n
  4. Captain America’s Movie Outfit Reports for Duty<\/a> – Not bad. Indeed, I like it better than the black longjohns that Bucky is running around in these days.<\/li>\n
  5. Topless Robot – ThunderCats HOOOOoooooly @#$%, There’s Going to Be a New Cartoon<\/a> – Okay, have to admit, I’m looking forward to this.<\/li>\n
  6. Newspaper!<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  7. Mark Kirk starts to look even worse<\/a> – There’s hyperbole-to-make-a-point and then there’s pulling-starting-facts-out-of-one’s-butt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Battle Beyond The Stars – Man, I loved this movie. Given some of the talent behind it, that’s not surprising in retrospect. A TV Commercial for a Comic? Why, I Never! – Sounds like a fine idea to me. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 6-Jun-10 1400)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133186,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/31\/movie-re-review-thor-the-dark-world-2013.html","url_meta":{"origin":17552,"position":0},"title":"Movie Re-Review: "Thor: The Dark World" (2013)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Mar-17 9:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Honestly speaking, this movie is really only worth watching to see Tom Hiddleston's Loki bits -- fortunately, there are plenty of them. 3 stars out of 5 (with a heart)Current review: -- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor-the-dark-world\/3\/Previous reviews:-- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor-the-dark-world\/2\/-- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor-the-dark-world\/1\/-- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor-the-dark-world\/ \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"Thor, Loki, and the Dark World","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thorlokithedarkworld5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thorlokithedarkworld5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thorlokithedarkworld5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133162,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/movie-re-review-thor-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":17552,"position":1},"title":"Movie Re-Review: "Thor" (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Mar-17 8:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Given that I seem to watch this about once a year, I guess it's true that it's one of my favorites of the MCU films, and one that keeps growing on me despite both being rushed and suffering from an awkwardly forced love interest.Full review: -- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor\/3\/Previous reviews:-- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor\/2\/-- https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/thor\/1\/--\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39625,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/movie-review-thor-the-dark-world-2013.html","url_meta":{"origin":17552,"position":2},"title":"Movie Review: "Thor: The Dark World" (2013)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Nov-13 10:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Four of five stars for a Thor movie that satisfies nicely -- especially the substantial parts that are a Loki movie. \u00a0(No spoilers, I believe.) #thorthedarkworld \u00a0 A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Thor: The Dark World (2013) The second Thor film satisfies. 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