I think this pretty much sums up the summer movie season.

A substitute teacher in Florida says he has been taken off the job after the school board leveled some serious allegations. What was the charge? Wizardry.

Seems he did a magic trick during class, and then he claims he was brought up on charges of inappropriate wizardry (presumably by the wizengamot). Granted, there’s no proof that that was the reason he was dismissed, he just claims that it was the explanation he was given.

For a fun Friday diversion, count the number of horrible magicky words used by the godawful local reporter in the news story. “Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.” SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE? HAHAHABARF.

(via his charming wife jane.org)

no photoshop or trickery was used to watch xavier kick your ass…yet. I see flying chimchomblys all over this site in a few months. Also, color me impressed.

a-s radio:
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• Smange and I watched The Golden CompASS (what a POS BTW), but it begs the question, what’s the deal with Steampunk? It’s kinda cool in theory, but in practice, when would you really want a watch like this?
• The world’s longest drives, as mapped by the current capabilities of GoogleMaps (which is the best, true dat).
• Babies have always been a good laugh with the Squad, whether it involved a microwave or a fireplace, but this is just insane.
• Whoring it out in the name of free speech? I’m trying to argue with that, but can’t. The Back Door Surprise is non-negotiable.
• Adults-Only Abercrombie catalog. Totally Gay.
• Fashion combines with comic book nurdry. Somewhere there’s a translation of the Bible that says “and the Geek shall inherit the earth.” Yes, I believe it’s actually a part of the Apocrypha.

More here.

I’ve been putting of the playoff posts so far this year, but ’twas a good night to be a Detroit sports fan last night.

+ Pistons beat the tar out of ‘76ers, 100-77. Next up, the Orlando Magic. If the Pistons swept the Magic in 2007, which was THEIR YEAR, what’s going to happen now? (Note: this does set a good precedent for the seemingly inevitable Pistons vs. Celtics series. Apparently the ‘Stons are impervious to the A-S zodiac.) Game 1 vs. the Magic is Saturday at 6:30pm Central.

+ Red Wings beat the ever-loving bejeezus out of the Avs, by a score of eight hockey goals to two hockey goals to complete the sweep. Johan “The Mule” Franzen had his second hat trick of the series (!!), giving him 9 goals in the 4 games against Colorado, which breaks Gordie Howe’s franchise record of 8 goals in a four-game playoff series, set in 1949. Franzen’s 11 goals in the playoffs are also a Red Wings record, beating Peter Klima’s 10 goals in the 1988 post-season. AND THE THIRD ROUND HASN’T EVEN STARTED YET. The pay of the night, however, was Zetterberg’s goal. Detroit awaits the winner of the Dallas-San Jose Series (stars lead, 3-1).

+ The Tigers get an 8-4 comeback win for their first sweep of the Yankees in New York since 1966, and pull within one game of .500.

The laser eyes seem to be operating at full power on all fronts.

Why, the city even got a shout out from 30 Rock last night (”Tornadoes tore through Detroit today, putting out several fires.”)

Sing it, Smokey…
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The toughest round yet! (and we still need a tie-breaker vote for the 6 vs 11’s!)

Original Trilogy Heroes Region:

#7. Wedge Antilles

VS.

#10. Admiral Ackbar

Good ol’ Wedge managed to survive all three movies and even party on Endor, but Ackbar delivers the most emotionally profound and stirring line of all the movies when he simply states, “May the Force be with us,” right before the poop hits the fan in RotJ. Who wins???

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Adios, April.

Original Trilogy Heroes Region:

#6. Lando

VS.

#11. Red Leader

One man blew up the Death Star, one man did not.

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The dreaded 5 versus 12 round, where in traditional college basketball formats, a #5 always goes down. Let’s see if that’s true!

Original Trilogy Heroes Region:

#5. R2D2

vs.

#12. Biggs

It’s the battle of Luke’s BFF’s! They both took their hits in episode IV, but only one walked, er, rolled away.

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