In 1981, two young men on the outskirts of Chicago came to one undeniable realization: There were few things that a pocket full of quarters, a hot dog from the venerable “The Hot Dog Place” and an ice cold can of Coca Cola couldn’t cure.

My best friend friend Jeff Allen and I were TRUE video game fanatics - living, breathing extensions of push buttons, joysticks and spinning controls of all kinds. If it wasn’t piggy-backed on-top-of-each-other marathon sets of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong JR., Popeye, all flavors of Pac Man or >GASP< Centipede, it was our love of landmark sessions of Star Castle.

We always wondered where video games would “go.” How we would spend next week, our days after school through the summer at “Electronic Gameworld” which literally became “our world”. When we weren’t either in front of Jeff’s Atari 2600 (complete with a wall of games that we could have built a house from) or sitting forever in front of my Intellivision (with me kicking his ass at ‘Baseball’) , we were asking each other “Gameworld?” and responding “Dude…” - the universal sign of the times back then that it was time to jump on our magged dirt bikes and roll.

One day after completing our snake-skin-tired jaunt to Gameworld, we saw a poster stuck on the Wall with a man - reaching toward the sky, a bolt of blue energy seemingly “entering his body” and a shapely hot chick with “light comin’ out of her boobs” (Jeff always had the best way with words).

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The movie captured the imagination of millions. Beings from alien worlds, a vast repertoire of futuristic cities, landscapes, mechina and robots that lined a digital camera view longer than a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

STAR WARS: Episode 1 is a movie that for many people was the fourth film seen in a series of now six films that follow the tale of the eventually venerable Anakin Skywalker. We know that actor Sebastian Shaw, Anakin Skywalker from “Return of the Jedi” past back in 1994, and Hayden Christiansen has been jumping in Jumper, been a “musician” and continues his acting career with zeal. But what of the youngest Anakin Skywalker? Whatever happened to Jake Lloyd after providing us with precocious pontificating podcracing 10 year old “Anny” back in 1999?

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America had the honor of installing it’s first African American president in January of this year. Barack Obama has not only made a mark in history because of his heritage, but because of the mark he’s left on the American public in more ways than one.

His ability to have the public lean forward into their televisions. The talent to command even the most elusive teleprompter. Winning an election by one of the largest margins ever in American history. It’s almost as if he’s become a rock or Hollywood movie star. So much so that it was recently announced that actor Denzel Washington as been personally selected by Obama to portray the 44th US President in a future biopic.

We find the selection one to be expected but is Denzel is the right man for the job? What about a series of other actors that have the chops and physical characteristics similar to our new black man in the center seat?

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SPOILERS herein, folks!

I’ve been honored to be accepted as a writer for ScreenRant.Com recently and recently at the San Diego Comic-Con there, in their break-away-from-filming glory, WERE THE CAST OF “24!”

Read on for more and I look forward to reading the feedback!

http://screenrant.com/24-comic-con-2009-brusimm-18843/

The 2GuysTalking: Podcast Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - 2009

We’ve had the pleasure of reviewing two great pieces of TRANSFORMERS-base entertainment. First, TRANSFORMERS, The Movie from 1986. Then the Michael Bay romp from 2007. Now, we take on the third offering, TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen, which continues it’s corn-combine-of-cash activity as the summer continues.

So what’s OUR verdict?

Has Bay and company hit a home run? Did we liken it to the grand vision that was the original TRANSFORMERS, The Movie from 1986?

Caption Hunt columnist Kip Lewis and former classmate from 1988 Dave Zeronis join us in this grand slam of transforming BAM and we hope that you’ll take time to listen.

Find out now and don’t forget to enter our newest contest from Electric Artists and A&E during this review podcast!

Find out now by listening to this free MP3 now!

Those of you with the taste for HOCKEY have a new entree at The 2GuysTalking Podcast Network. Be sure to check out the newest addition adding a decidedly great-white-north flavor - “The Light the Lamp Podcast” featuring hosts Grady Roy and Scotty Fitzpatrick. Together they’re providing you the best conversational news, views and insight to get you educated while watching the activity between the blue lines!

Check out The Light the Lamp Podcast now and be sure to contact hosts Grady Roy and Scotty Fitzpatrick to tell them YOUR views, theory and help them to Light the Lamp!

http://www.lighthelamppocast.com

For those of you interested in home entertainment, please take a moment to visit ScreenRant.Com and view my most recent feature article asking the question, “Blu-ray: Is It Time to Make the Move?”

From ScreenRant.Com
Staff Writer, Mike Wilkerson:

Our desire for new technology continues to be stoked from every direction: The internet, store sales on every shelf, magazines and postal bombardment abound. While “big box” stores are closing their doors left and right, the unmistakable, always-anticipated internal screams of “time to upgrade” continue to echo throughout consumer minds everywhere. It opens eyes, web browsers and imaginations soliciting the question: What’s next?

So I’ve decided to take you on a Screen Rant-based Tech and Opinion Hunt not only to find out the direction of my next home theater acquisition, but to ask what will make YOU decide when the time will come to “go Blu-ray.” Be sure to chime in with your comments below and help round out the perspective on an often fiery and opinionated discussion that we hope will educate many.

Click here to read the rest of this great article at ScreenRant.Com NOW!

Titus Welliver, Lost

Titus Welliver probably thought he had seen it all during his run as Deadwood resident Silas Adams. But then he appeared on Lost for all of 1 minute and 45 seconds, and in short order his world — as well as that of the ABC drama — shifted forever.

Who was this mysterious “man in black” taunting Jacob on the beach in the Season 5 finale prologue? What did he mean with the observation, “They come. Fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same”? And why did this “Man No. 2″ so desperately want to find the loophole necessary to one day kill Jacob?

Welliver, who now has a recurring role on CBS’ The Good Wife (premiering Sept. 22), shared a look inside the far-from-black-and-white nature of his Lost visit.

TVGuide.com: How does it feel to be dropped into the zeitgeist that is Lost?
Titus Welliver: It’s pretty insane. It’s pretty insane. This is a completely different thing for me. At the street level, it has been crazy. People — from all walks of life — come up and say, “Now, you possessed Locke…?” “Are you in fact Locke?” “Has the character of Locke been created from you, and this was a whole setup to crash the plane?”

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