Draft Day for the NFL 2009

Today is the big day. Will your team find an offensive weapon or a defensive juggernaut? Or will your team pick a Tim Biakabatuka or a Joey Harrington? Will your team anger fans by going a different way like seems to be the case every year for Jets fans? All valid questions. My question is more simple. Why are teams still drafting QB's at number 1 overall in the draft. Doesn't Daivid Carr or Alex Smith not smell foul enough or leave a bad enough taste in fans mouths? I am a huge football fan and Draft additct. However I am still nervous because I see the dud picks fly bye each year and more often than not it affects my own favorite team. So as I await the late start this afternoon I will join you the fans of American Football and wonder, will the next few years of watching my team go bye yelling explatives or will we reap the rewards of a solid draft? Not everyone can draft two backs like Deangelo Williams and Jonathon Stewart so what will this year have as it surprise? Another Joey Flacco or Matt Ryan salvation effort? I can wait!

B movies can get an A sometimes: Reviews of only the very best in B Movies.

With alot of very bad horror and zombie flicks out there to fill the roster it is high time to sort out the good from the bad. Be it kung fu flick, monster mash, zombie and blood/guts or murder mystery; there are alot of B level movies that stink up even the trashiest low budget porn set. So you experts of everything bad let us know, what is the cream of the crop?
Place your short reviews here in the comments section.

Christopher Tolkien Sues New Line Cinema

This might not be new news to many avid Tolkien fans but I found a site that contained more details as to why the filming of The Hobbitt in New Zealand is being so delayed and why no new news is really coming out about the two new films that are to be shot by Producer Peter Jackson and Director Guillermo Del Toro (Director of Pan's Labryth). The site where i have found more viable news about the future of these films is www.planet-tolkien.com and has a good but short article about the status of the films.
So i do not need to go into direct detail here, the link will take you to the page and you can read it your self. However the legal case between Christopher Tolkien (author J.R.R. Tolkien's son) and New Line Cinema (who released the highly acclaimed Lord Of the Rings film series) for around 30 million pounds in back payments that Tolkien claims that New Line has not paid because it has practiced shady accounting to avoid making the payments. The legal case is striking and unfortunate as I am a huge fan of the books and films. Yet the really interesting problem is that Newline is owned by Warner Bros. who also holds the rights to the very lucrative Harry Potter film franchise. Money should not be an issue when these studios are rolling in millions even years after the first film Fellowship of the Ring was released. 30 million pounds is alot of money in the current economic climate but not for a company who is earning billions of pounds and dollars annually from just the Lord of the Rings series.
On another note fans can be ecstatic as Sir Ian Mckallen will reprise his role as Gandalf the wizard and Ian Holm one of my favorite actors of all time will narrate. In an odd move Viggo Mortenson has been rumored to be making a return even though his character Aragorn was not in the storyline of The Hobbitt. My best guess is that with the second film being a sequel of sorts taking up story found within the Silmarillion, Aragorn will be seen in only this sequel and not in the first of the two films to be released, The Hobbit.

Are Board Games filling our time once more?

In recent weeks more and more news outlets (At least on the web) have been publishing stories and ads stating that America is once again spending vast amounts of time and of coarse money on playing board games. I wonder how much of this is an attempt to sell products and how much is based on actual fact. So why not have a survey that puts some fact to these statements. How many board games do you own and play? How frequently do you play board games? Weekly, monthly, or maybe just a few times a year? How many board games have you bought in the last year and what were they?
It would be interesting to find that games like monopoly which were created at a time of US and World economic depression are truly serving players in the same way in the current recession that it did when it was first released.
On a similar note i think it would be awesome to find that people are playing five or six games regularly.