If you are reading this, chances are that you already know what significance May the 4th holds to Star Wars fans. If you have been living off the grid (AKA haven’t messed around on this thing called “the Internet”), May the 4th is widely regarded as “Star Wars Day” because of the fun to say pun “May the 4th be with you”.
My wife Stacey had more or less set everything in motion leading up to our first ever (first annual?) “May the 4th Be With You Party/Star Wars Movie Night” by having “Star Wars Shirt Fridays” at her work. So we opened our apartment up for a party and it had a pretty good turnout.
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We’re just a month away from the release of The Avengers, (aka the biggest gathering of superheroes in one movie), so there is an understandable amount of hype leading up to next month’s release.
As fans count down the days to see Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Agent Coulson , and Nick Fury assemble, I decided to comb through a few Avengers stories to prep myself for it. Although “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” have a rich and wonderful history, there’s a few bits of it that may not be suitable for such a large blockbuster. So far, everything looks good, but a movie like this will likely spawn a few sequels, so here’s some of the scenes and/or characters I hope we don’t see in future installments (Geek/Movie Cred Note: I know some of these if not all will show up…..ever, this is purely for comedy)
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Tonight I had a revelation, but unlike a normal, inspired “a-ha” moment; this is a thought I’ve expressed periodically…. but tonight I realize how serious I am when I say this: Denver, Colorado needs a Taco Bueno location! Badly!!!
Growing up around and spending my college years in Abilene, Texas I’ve had unlimited access to Taco Bueno. It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary when I’d have it for dinner twice a week….sometimes I’d have it nearly every day! No dear reader, it’s not sick, it’s awesome and a testament of how awesome Taco Bueno is!
However, since then I’ve moved to Denver. Personally, I couldn’t ask for a better place to live; I get easy access to mountains, perfect temperature summers, green grass, and I’m living in the epicenter of the craft beer movement (there’s a new brewery/taproom/brewpub seemingly every 2-3 months). So in short: I love it here and don’t plan on leaving anytime soon! But there is one problem….There’s no Taco Bueno!!
In fact, the closest Taco Bueno is a 6 hour drive to Albuquerque, New Mexico and there’s a few locations in Kansas as well, but the drive isn’t any shorter. Due to this, I only get Bueno when I go home to see my Family in Abilene (I always request we make a B-line for Bueno before any hugs are shared) Seeing that I don’t have the 1.5 million net worth nor the $35,000 for franchising (I’ve looked into it quite often) I decided to just see if any rich people read this and do me a solid and get one going over here.
To further make my plea more pathetic…er…um “Reasonable” Here’s 10 reasons why Taco Bueno would be awesome for Denver:
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In the late summer of 2011, I took a 14 day trip to the UK with my wife Stacey, her sister Stephanie, and my friend Josh. I did the “writer” thing and kept a travel journal….but with a pen and paper. After a very slow and lazy process, I’ve finally transcribed it, cleaned it up a bit and improved it from my manuscript/rough copy.
While far from original, I wanted to have a digital copy of it to share with friends and family, and this site sorta serves as a good place to host it. I’m certainly not the first person to do such a trip nor am I the most interesting, but I have made it as fun as possible (plus there’s fun really bad illustrations).
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Friends, we gather today to bid farewell to the year 2011. I haven’t wrote much since this fair website turned a year old, but I have plenty coming this year (including my very delayed travel journal from my UK trip earlier this year, that’s very slowly being edited). 2011 gave us a lot in the world of pop culture and since writing these end-of-year lists are so much damn fun, I wanted to pay respect to 2011′s highlights (and lowlights): lets get going!
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Earlier this week, the upcoming 23rd James Bond movie details were announced at a press conference in London. The next movie will be called Skyfall and the plot is described as “”Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.” Joining Craig-Bond will be No Country for Old Men creepster Javier Bardem and Lord Vordemort himself Ralph Fiennes!
While it’s a full year til Skyfall hits theaters, I can’t wait to see James Bond back in action (especially since it was delayed due to problems with MGM). To help get through this next year I will probably have to revisit all 50ish years worth of the franchise and I thought it’d be fun to make my own version of the other hundreds of “best-of-Bond” lists. So here’s my top 6 movies:
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So it’s Friday, Halloween falls on a Monday, so with the weekend parties, you have even LESS time now to plan out what to wear this year! But the problem is you are not creative; but your friends keep urging you to dress up for a change, and you don’t want to spend a lot of money.
Worry not, I am here to help you pick out a costume! (I’m generous like that!)Here’s 5 very last minute but good costumes.
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This is my latest….admittedly accidental creation. Originally bought to make a Loch Ness Monster photo, I decided that I wanted to photograph it more. Soon I was an annoying tourist taking photos of a toy dinosaur every where I went.
So not really knowing how to share the photos best, I decided to make it “a story” and due to the cheesy nature; it’s a children’s story.
So the following reads like a children’s book….because it’s really funny (to me).
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Today marks the 1 year anniversary since this site first launched into the internets and I’ve decided it was so much fun that I re-purchased hosting and renewed the .com name because it’s a helluva lot of fun! Technically, the site was “born” back in April when I bought the name PopcultureAsylum.com, but it took me til late August to do anything with it. So that was a sign of how this will go; “an infrequently updated comedy-writing website about pop culture and other ramblings”. …my habit of infrequent updates have become something of a slogan.
Anyway, now that a year has passed; I wanted to salute a few of my favorite articles thus far, in no particular order, along with some commentary about the said articles. I’ll be back in a few weeks with a travel journal of my 2 week adventure in the UK, I don’t know what will happen or what will be worth writing about but I expect lots of doodles and me being something of an American Version of Karl Pilkington. Until then, thanks for reading!
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If you are reading this, chances are that you already know what significance May the 4th holds to Star Wars fans. If you have been living off the grid (AKA haven’t messed around on this thing called “the Internet”), May the 4th is widely regarded as “Star Wars Day” because of the fun to say pun “May the 4th be with you”.
