Georgia Lt. Governor Cagle has appointed Senator Mitch Seabaugh of Sharpsburg to chair the Senate committee proposed in Resolution 819.  The committee will survey and elucidate the state's complex and often contradictory firearms laws.  SR 19 reads, …

Today's cinematic triumph is Godzilla vs. Megalon. It's a cautionary tale about mankind's disregard for the environment, coupled with a lesson on the folly of scientific arrogance. It also raises moral questions about creating and controlling artificial intelligence.

Well, sorta. It's a sequel to 1972's dreadful Godzilla vs. Gigan, which was hardly a high-water mark for the franchise itself.

"The Enrichment Center once again reminds you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."

–GLaDOS

The DVD is out. Get it already, or turn in your geek card.

I've already written about the greatness that was Futurama, so go there and read that if you don't know what I'm blathering on about.

Meet Alyx Vance. She's one of the main characters in Valve Studios' Half-Life series. She's also something of a rarity in videogames in that she's an actual character, as opposed to the 2-dimensional caricatures of women that dominate the genre.

Desu Nōto has been hugely popular in Japan in the last few months, and it's even spawned two live-action movies in Japan. Justly so, since it's a taut and riveting series, and I've been following it on a weekly basis.

Until this week, that is. Last week, Viz announced that they've received the stateside licensing for the series, which stops legitemate fansubs cold. Viz doesn't have the best track record of localization, so this was hardly considered positive news.

The Last Unicorn is something of a lost classic. I saw it on its original release in 1982, and it had a huge effect on me as a child. It led to a years-long love of fantasy novels, particularly Tolkein and Terry Brooks.

Several years ago, a friend brought it up in conversation, and we decided to try and find it on video. It turned out it had been out of print for quite some time. It's since been re-released, and it's seen several versions on DVD, none of which you should consider buying.

…and so it winds to a close. Though this series has ended up in a completely different place from where it began, the ending is quite satisfying. Looking back over it, this was far more ambitious than the initial episodes seemed to suggest.

Massive spoilers to follow.

My local high-school football team is called the Wolverines. The high-school football team and guerilla patriot squad from Red Dawn is also called the Wolverines. Yet, whenever I see someone in a letter jacket and scream, "Wolverines!" with a rifle in my hand, people just don't seem to get it.

Why? Because one of the great classics of Reagan-era American cinema languishes in near-obscurity. This is truly unfortunate, especially since we just haven't had enough flag-waving jingoistic fervor in this country lately. Every red-blooded American should go out and watch this movie immediately.

If you don't, then the terrorists have already won.

If you're following the American release schedule, this contains major spoilers.

Lots of bandwidth-sucking images ahead. Consider yourself warned.

One of the nice things about Bittorrent and the DVD format in general is that obscure television series and movies are available all over the world, as opposed to just the countries in which they were broadcast.