Hope that means we get to see Dumont flying through the air like a water balloon from a dorm room.

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FROM GLODOW NEAD COMMUNICATIONS-
"ICER announces an innovative new jump, never before seen in the United States, for this year’s 2008 big air ski and snowboard contest. For the next evolution of Esurance ICER AIR, skiers and snowboarders will be launched using a catapult system developed in Finland by Soul Productions. The catapult will rocket the athletes down a 120 foot- long track and launch them 30 feet in the air, at distances of up to 70 feet onto a corner, or hip landing. The new structure creates an exciting opportunity for the skiers and snowboarders to showcase their skills and ensures the audience can be close to the action. The catapult system will allow Esurance ICER AIR to return to its urban roots, as it can be set up in almost any environment or cityscape.

“In the true tradition of Esurance ICER AIR, we are continuing to evolve and adapt,” said ICER AIR founder Glen Griffin. “The new catapult jump is something spectators may never have seen before. We are thrilled to be the first ones to bring this kind of innovative jump to the United States and excited about the possibilities for Esurance ICER AIR this year and for the years to come.”

"Esurance ICER AIR is scheduled to take place on Saturday, October 18, from 12 noon to 8 p.m. at McCovey Cove, adjacent to AT&T Park, on the San Francisco Embarcadero waterfront. The event will also feature freestyle motocross, skate, BMX, headliner music acts, interactive exhibits and a beer garden.

This year’s event will feature a bigger and more diverse musical line-up than past events, showcasing a wide range of musical acts and performers including: The Cool Kids, 3OH!3, DJ Spider, and Men Women & Children."-

Conveyor Belt Catapult in action.

Starring Jenny Wade, Clu Gulager, Diane Goldner, Tom Gulager, Martin Klebba, Carl Anthony Payne II, Juan Longoria Garcia and Hanna Putnam

Produced by Dimension Extreme

Written by Martin Dunstan and Patrick Melton

Directed by John Gulager

I have been waiting for this moment since I first found out about it: the release of Feast II: Sloppy Seconds. Now, when I say that, I say that out of extreme love/hate, mostly because the first film was near perfection and I had no idea how they would manage a second one. For those who don’t know, Feast was the winner of Ben Affleck/Matt Damon media lovechild, “Project Greenlight 3.” It’s genius, unique and pokes fun at the genre itself while acting as a perfect addition to the genre. The second, however, well…see below.

Feast II: Sloppy Seconds not only shows what happened elsewhere while the bar in the first film was getting attacked, but it takes survivors from both events, has them band together and continue on their journey for survival. This time around, we have Biker Queen, the twin of Harley Mom from the first film, who discovers the Bartender hiding under a trailer. They, along with Queen’s biker gang of chicks, enter a nearby deserted town where car salesman Slasher (he slashes prices!), his wife, Secrets (who’s obsessed with self-help book The Secret) and her lover, Greg Swank, are hiding out. Along the way, they find Honey Pie who the Bartender totally kicks the shit out of her, as he should (if you don’t understand this, see the first one immediately). When the beasts enter, they all run for safety, when they come across nugget (code for “little people”) luchador wrestlers Thunder and Lightning and their grandmother. Thunder tells them of the meth head, Hobo, hiding out in the jail across the street, and being that it’s the only safe place in town, the group devises a plan to enter despite the locked doors. Will they reach safety before they all become feasted upon? Watch and find out, dur!

Sequels are a very touchy subject for me, even more so than reboots. With a movie as great as the first Feast, nothing could really touch it. Naturally, I was curious to see it simply because all except one or two of the characters in the first one died and had no idea how there could be a sequel, period. Well, of course, the one ambiguous death of a character in the first film, the Bartender, was used to jumpstart the second film. That paired with the fact that Harley Mom, a prominent character in the first film, mysteriously has a twin sister, who’s out for not only monster ass, but to kill who killed her sister, Bozo. The connections to the first one, although strained, run well enough to keep the second story going.

As far as the acting goes, it was good, just as it was in the first film…but that could be because half the original cast was in it. Along with the edition of Martin Klebba, who is the best nugget on the planet, and Carl Anthony Payne II (you may remember him on “Martin”), it was pretty great all around.

Feast II is directed by John Gulager again, so it makes sense that the film is shot the same way. There are bits of shaky camera movements, but not too bad like SOME movies *AHEM*CLOVERFIELD*AHEM*.

Instead of doing the text intros like in the first film, the second film does the same thing, but has the character say whatever they want about themselves versus having you read it yourself. It wasn’t too bad, but I liked the only way better since it gave the film his old 70s feel.

Another good thing throughout the film was the use of flashbacks from the first movie. Instead of plastering them all over the place, they were used only when appropriate to describe either past characters or background for the story in general.

Now this is where my heart breaks a little. The first film you could tell had a decent budget simply because it used little to no CGI and mostly all prosthetic gore to get its disgusting point across. However, with Feast II, there’s a lot of CGI, and bad CGI at that, which made that sense of reality the first one offered totally disappear. In addition to CGI blood, more than half of the movie is shot in front of a green screen, which makes the movie almost unbearably cheesy. However, when they did use real gore, it was great.

Feast II focuses a lot on where the beasts come from and how they’re built. One of the characters gets a bright idea to cut the monster open (in a VERY disgusting process), only to discover there’s a Cyclops inside that makes a screeching noise to signal the others. Sounds a bit like the later installments of the Tremors series to me.

Comparing it directly to the first one, it’s terrible as far as pacing goes. Feast spaced out the characters deaths, the gore and moved the story along very smoothly. Feast II gives you a massive dose of gore (the beast farts, girls puke, poop is sprayed on girl, girls puke again, then monster semen, more puke, etc.). Maybe because there is purposefully a third movie coming out, almost no characters die in this film, whereas everyone except for one or two characters dies in the first. Those who die or get severely injured in the second installment are mostly by accident, not at the hands of the beasts themselves. It also introduced a cat/beast hybrid (again…Tremors sequels) in which they’re smaller and quicker than the originals.

The movie ends just as the beasts entire the scene, almost forcing you to watch the third (I know I will, unfortunately). Also, they seemingly kill Honey Pie, but just like any “good,” current horror flick, has a post-credits fake out and is actually alive. Oy vey. My head hurts.

Pretty neat feature, actually. Talks about three generations in one film: Clu (Bartender) and sons John (directing) and Tom (acting as Greg Swank) alongside grandson Clu Mason (baby nugget actor). Diane Goldner AKA Biker Queen is married to John in real life.

Aside from a hilarious scene involving the “rescue” of a baby and watching two nuggets/little people wrestle, this movie is actually a pretty huge disappointment. I’m going to go home and watch the original to remember “back when”…*sigh*

Morning Troops, today we commence operation mouche aux rivages.
All units are to proceed with the utmost haste to point DFW. There you must erect a trebuchet:

Once this is built you must then put the first soldier in the trebuchet, count to ten, and launch them the fuck across the ocean. The soldier will then be in the air and traveling with great velocity (whatever the hell that is) toward the cost of the desired country.

Good luck troops, over and out...

Please note we cannot guarantee the survival of the person launched and there is every change that they will die.

Will It Fly---VCR?

Will It Fly---Bee Box?

Will It Fly---Greasy Toolbox?

Will It Fly---The Great Pumpkin?

Will It Fly--- Grandpa's Golf Clubs?

The trebuchet is two stories tall and has had several makeovers during the years.  It currently has a car axel that my brother says keeps the shimmy down.

Also the smack-that-apult, courtesy of Akon:

One throws morons off to be swept away by an alarmingly swift river. One throws morons into a mass of people who are alarmingly unhelpful when it comes to crowd surfing. Both come with equally craptacular music and varying degrees of illegality.

We could use something like this to launch Marvin Lewis out of town.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=21582709

My all-time favourite quote from GWB...

The general turned to face the three teenagers in front of him.

“OK boys, you know what to do, smash the head before they have a chance to crawl away, if one gets loose in here its gonna be a nightmare”

In the distance a large wooden catapult swung its huge arm and fired two cart wheeling figures into the air. The three boys studied the trajectory of the figures and without a word began to sprint away up the heavily fortified city’s streets.

The General turned back to watch the distant catapults as a second and third fired more figures into the air. Looking to his left he shouted at a group of soldiers awaiting orders “I need more Zombie runners! Any volunteers?”

keep them hidden in your file box or pen can, until the unsuspecting co-worker walks by and *PING!* CATAPULTED!!!

and for all you who have friends with a bun in the oven, baby showers!!!

Oh, hi there. Welcome to the first installment of “This Day In Wallaby History”. This will be a weekly feature, meant to educate the world on what really happened on historic occasions. Remember, humans write the history books… and they think rabbits are cute, so why trust them? At the Wallablog, you can get the real scoop on world history.

Let’s go back to the days of the Rooman Empire and meet our great ancestor Bratabus. Now Bratabus was plagued with the problems most emperors have faced: insurrection, complaints about his completely reasonable taxes (he needed to buy gel for grooming his ears and his tail, after all), threats of exile, fear that his new fashions wouldn’t be acceptable, and RABBITS. Yes, rabbits have been the cause of most of the problems rulers have endured. In the days of the Roomans, the people had a saying: “Never trust a cook with a cottontail”. Food poisoning wasn’t always due to the lead plates, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, Bratabus heard rumors that the rabbits were planning to ruin the aqueducts by burrowing in through the sides and letting all the water run out. It would be a siege against Rome! The rabbits were angry about being cut out of Rome’s cash crop, carrots. Who in their right mind would put a rabbit in the carrot-farming business? Not Bratabus.

Bratabus knew he had to get rid of the rabbits, but it was a problem. He couldn’t send them out by wagon – they were far too crazy to be contained in a box. If only there were some way to fling them over the walls of Rome…

And so the bunnypult was born. Bratabus lured the rabbits to the imperial garden with a lettuce feast and had his top general, Brutes, toss a net down on top of them. They kicked and fought, but Brutes tied them up and sat them in the bunnypult. It was big enough that they could launch five rabbits at a time.

Far into the evening, Bratabus watched as the wicked rabbit conspirators were thrown out of the city. He was a stern one, that Bratabus, but that was what the city needed… a leader… someone who wasn’t afraid to take on the rabbits.

Unfortunately, the rest of the world has forgotten about Bratabus. Even more unfortunately, Bratabus and Brutes didn’t get all the rabbits out of Rome. There were a few still hiding out; this would have drastic consequences.

Check back next week to find out the TRUTH about how Rome fell.