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X-Men Wolverine movie trailer leaked

I'm not a huge nerd but this got me really antsy.  I didn't even realize they were doing a Wolverine spin off from the popular X-Men movies.  I had thought that after X-Men III, they blew it and we weren't going to see anymore.  Luckily I was wrong.

Someone was (surely illegally) recording this at the "Comic Con" convention where they show trailers like this one for true comic book fans.  After watching, I read up on some other things and found out that Ryan Reynolds is playing a character called Deadpool, which should be amazing.  If you're cool enough to watch the whole clip and cool enough to know who the character Gambit is, you should be pretty excited to see the new take on the card-slinging Cajun.  (He was my favorite as a kid)  It looks sweet.  Enjoy.  

(Sorry if it gets deleted, the producers probably don't want it being seen yet so they'll probably delete it from youtube.  Hopefully you're a loyal Shallow Thoughts follower)

 

Book Buy Backs

It's time to sell your books back.  "Put a little green in your stocking" and a lot in the bookstore.  I hate this system.  Buy a book from the bookstore for $100.  Sell it back for $50.  They hold onto it for a few weeks and sell it for $100 again.

I have a better idea.  Everyone give me your books.  I'll hold onto them until the next semester and sell them to your friends for double the money.

This year, they pissed me off on a deeper level than usual.  Last Friday, I went to the bookstore to sell my books before the flood of students going in after finals.  I needed to hold on to two books for my piano final, but I asked the lady how much I could get for them anyway.  "Ok this one is $9 and this one is $6."  Before she put them on the stack, I stopped her.  "Oh I'm not selling those I just wanted to figure out their worth."  I told her...  

Well its five days later and I go into the store and after I wait through the 30 minute line, they tell me it can't be done.  Why? Oh, they have a list of excuses to throw at you.  "It's not being offered next semester" (yes it is).  "We only accept first editions" (there's no new edition).  "We don't know why it wont show up in our computer" (figure it out).  "AHA! You've written some answers on the pages" (got me).  I filled in the blanks on 5 pages so I could read the music.  

So what can I do?  I could go through each page and do an immaculate job of whiting out the ink marks and then come back and stand in the thursday edition of the bookstore line to see what they say then.  Nope.  Not worth $15.  I hate the bookstore.  I'm starting my own.

Top 3 Halloween Costumes of 2008 #3

This one was pretty funny.  Kind of a throwback to childhood.  My friend, Paul went out on halloween dressed as Ash Ketchum - the main character from Pokémon.  Pretty funny.  He just bought a Pokéball toy, gloves with fingers cut off, a red hat and I don't know where he got the jacket but the illusion works.  Plus it's a good costume because you can obviously party in it.

Top 3 Halloween Costumes of 2008 #2

The second is one my friend did.  Jermaine from "Flight of the Conchords" was in a movie called Eagle vs. Shark.  My buddy, Beau made that his costume.  I helped him put it together.  We used yellow cardboard and stapled it together for the beak.  Then a white hat from a hobby lobby kind of store.  Brown cloth cut into triangles and we stapled it to an undershirt collar.  I thought it looked good.

Top 3 Halloween Costumes of 2008 #1

I never did a halloween costume blog but I want to share the best ones I saw this year.

The first, I got from Break.com - an iPod Commercial.  I find myself showing this to a lot of people because I think it's the most clever costume I've ever seen.

Cool Cat Trick - get shot play dead

Something cute for you.

I'm not a cat person but if my cat could do this, I would get over the fact that I was allergic to it.

Cat Plays Dead When Shot - Watch more Animal Videos