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Hogzilla
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Nothing you can tell me will convince me this is real. Nothing.

June 13, 2007 / Uncategorized

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Totally real. Also, they’re making a movie out of A SMALLER ONE of those that was photographed.

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The stories said this 11-year old shot the hog several times with a .50 caliber pistol. I can’t believe anybody who knows anything about guns believes that.

Check out youtube for .50-caliber pistol videos. Start with this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOeDW5wu_E

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I know I’m not the only one to think this, but doesn’t this seem like a bad sign?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa1GqJhKhO4

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As long as there’s no ectoplasm, I think we’re okay.

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We shall see… Best moment from 6:45 into the film:

WISE WOMAN: A mound will be raised and funeral rites performed on this ground where you have fallen. Pass on in peace and bear us no hatred.

NAGO, possessed boar demon, melting: Disgusting little creatures, soon all of you will feel my hate, and suffer as I have suffered.

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I gotta watch that movie again. I kinda forgot how deep it was.

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Although the dubbing was surprisingly good, for maximum deepness subtitles is probably the way to go.

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1. That is awesome.

2. Fill in the non-insiders (e.g. me) … how did you make that? Is there like a YTMND markup language or something?

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A YTMND is basically just a tiled image, an audio track, and some zooming text. So once you register for an account (which I did this afternoon) they just have an upload form where you give them the image/sound/text and that’s pretty much it.

I can’t believe I only have 2 stars. I poured my soul into that! Maybe because there’s a standing prohibition on anime on YTMND. That must be it. Otherwise, 5 million stars.

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“I was prepared from the moment I let my arrow fly.”

I think Princess Mononoke has the best action-driven opening I’ve seen in animation — like something out of Star Wars. Spirited Away is more meditative and lyrical, but PM is like the best eleven-year-old-boy movie ever.

Speaking of cartoons and memory, I had a chance to watch the 1986 Transformers movie recently. The best part — okay, the best part after the fact that Eric Idle got top billing as Wreck-Gar — was the idea that among all this new, futuristic technology, the primary means of communication would be big cassette-and-antenna boomboxes. I mean, boomboxes and cassettes that turn into robot monsters, but still. It’s all analog.

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Uh-oh. Hogzilla hoax update. I mean, it’s still huge. Just not avatar-of-an-angry-earth huge.

Ah hahahaha. You’re totally right about Transformers & boomboxes, Tim. Also, at least half of the Decepticon fighting force was comprised of transforming tapes, which was weird at the time, and is even weirder now.

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Pete says…

You obviously have to have something mechanical (therefore analog?) to transform. What would a compact disc or solid state flash drive transform into? There’s no moving parts to transform!

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Wow. Not only was that link excellent, it also launches ones into an insane journey through all of the fan-dubbed Transformers videos out there, e.g.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bq1_6D9QS9Y

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We need a running tally of snarkmarket threads: 1) about transformers 2) about something else but then eventually about transformers.

I interrupted the mozart I was listening to so that I could hear transformers fan dubs. And it was totally worth it. (New mozart addiction: K467, mvmt. 1.)

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