Hulk Smash! 'Nuff Said

Sorry to spoil anything, but this is the highlight of The Avengers, true believers.

Mother's Day @ Yerba Buena Gardens, S.F.

Fun times, true believers.

The Avengers rules ... 'nuff said

This flick rocked the ever-lovin' bacon, true believers. I've seen it twice and am on my way to see it a third time at a theater near ... me.

The Hulk steals the show and the Hawk' and the 'Widow add nice depth to balance the bickering among Cap, Iron Man and Thor.

I like that the villains are the Chitauri, led by a creepy and evil Loki ... the Skrulls or the Kree would've been too comic-booky. This movie is for everyone, all ages, all genders. It's the ultimate summer flick and will break every record in the book when it's all said and done. Move over Avatar, move over Titanic. AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!

Free Comic Book Day - O-dogg on cover of Amazing Fantasy #15

Free Comic Book Day is always fun. Here I am posterized, courtesy of Comic Ink in Dublin, CA.

R.I.P. MCA (Adam Yauch) of the Beastie Boys

I can't imagine a world where there is not a new Beastie Boys album to look forward to. It's all I've known my whole life. I think the first cassette tape I ever owned was "License to Ill" back in the mid 1980s. The last time they were here in the Bay Area for a show I bought tickets, but they had to cancel because MCA was diagnosed with throat cancer. I was sad then, and I am sad now.

Rest in Peace, MCA: you did a lot for world peace and worthy causes and you most definitely earned your license to ill ... forever.

Here's probably the greatest music video of all time. Thanks again, MCA.

! I LOVE Lucha Libre !

As someone who has been to Mexico, collected Mexican wrestling action figures, has worn Mexican wrestling masks just for fun AND has a great affection for Jack Black's "Nacho Libre," you know I gots to get down with this freshness from Kimbra.

New music from your boy, O-dogg

It's been a while since I've posted some fresh tunes. Enjoy, true believers:

SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW


TOO CLOSE


MIDNIGHT CITY


Get down with your bad selves, go ahead, I give you permission.

The FRAK is back!

Just discovered that Comcast OnDemand's streampix is offering a bunch of older movies and TV shows, including my beloved Battlestar Galactica in HD. Seasons 1-4 are there in all of their glory. So say we all!

Raider Hallway @ Napa Valley Marriott

The hotel also had some Raider game photos blown up and posted in the hallways. A nice tribute to the Raider Nation at the team's training camp home.

New Avengers Cap Toys

I can never resist checking the toy department at places like Walmart and Target.

The Hunger Games starts in 7 days, count it down

I'm looking forward to this, true believers.

Darth ... Maul ... Returns! Only on Cartoon Network's 'The Clone Wars'

Darth Maul returns. I think a little bit of pee came out watching this ...

New AVENGERS Trailer! Geek out time ...

Enjoy, true believer.

Game of Thrones is back in April

I ... can't ... wait ...

This is good parenting

Kasper's Hotdogs - an Oakland tradition

Since 1930, true believers! If you are down with the Mutt Hutt in San Leandro, then you know you're down with Kasper's!

Ding, dong ...

... the witch is dead, the witch is dead. At least for now, there is always zombie potential ...

New Spider-man trailer looks ... well, it looks AMAZING!

Wow. I am blow away. Amazing. 'Nuff said.

Oh how I hope this is true!

Back in August of last year, Alcon Entertainment producer Andrew Kosove said that there were no plans to bring back Harrison Ford in Ridley Scott's upcoming Blade Runner movie. Whether or not the film is a sequel or prequel has yet to be announced, but the following news may indicate that the movie is indeed a direct sequel to the original film.

Twitch Film has learned that Harrison Ford - who played lead character 'Deckard' in the original 1982 film - has entered early negotiations to join the new Blade Runner installment. As the discussions are still early, it's possible that things won't work out and Ford won't appear in the movie. Still, it can be considered evidence that the film is a sequel to Scott's original film.

In addition, back in November, Ridley Scott himself stated the film was 'liable' to be a sequel. But expect an official announcement for the movie soon, including the revealing of the screenwriter and whether or not it'll be a sequel or prequel.

Be sure to check back for the latest on the new Blade Runner film, which is widely speculated to be Ridley Scott's next project (despite having various other films in the works). Share your thoughts below in the usual place.

Welcome Head Coach Dennis Allen

Go Raiders. 'Nuff said.

I love OAKLANDISH ... you should too!

Just check out these dope-ass shirts. Hella flava, hella style.

Avengers 3D Promo Art

Sweet ...

Star Wars re-released in 3D

What the heck, why not pay to watch The Phantom Menace one more time?

Hue Jackson fired - I'm not surprised

You can't run your mouth the way Hue did at the end of the season and expect to keep your job. Period. Later Hue, the Raidernation is moving in a different direction. I can't wait to see who's next.

The Raiders hire first General Manager in team history

Welcome Reggie McKenzie, GM of your Oakland Raiders. Wow, that sounds pretty frakkin' good. Raiders fans have been clamoring for a GM for at least 20 years and now, after 50 years of Al Davis doing everything, we have a young up-an-comer to run the show. And best of all, he's an ex-Raider himself, a player that was drafted in the 10th round of the 1985 draft and worked his way into a starting job. Stud. This guy can evaluate talent and I don't see any way that we ever end up with a JaMarcus Russell or a Darrius Heyward-Bay ever again.

Happy New Year, True Believers

So ... what are YOU doing New Year's Eve? Hope it's fun and safe, whatever it is.

Happy 2012!

A Sweet End to 2011

As my Christmas vacation comes to an end I'd be remiss not reflect back on 2011 without a holiday hot chocolate topped with Lucerne chocolate whipped cream ... all inside a Luke Skywalker mug. What a nice end to the year; a year that saw promotions at our jobs, healthy kids, and so many other blessings I can't count them all. Thank you God ... and Go Raiders and Go Blue!

Thanks for reading, true believers. You can look for more CruZader updates and news in 2012.

'Nuff said.

Happy Birthday Stan THE MAN Lee!

Happy 88th to the ultimate true believer of characters like Spider-man, The Hulk, Iron Man, and The X-Men. This loquacious dude is my hero. Cheers to you, Stan. 'Nuff said.

Merry Christmas, true believers!

It was a very Super Mario Christmas at O-dogg's house. Lots of new games and systems, like 3DS and Kinect. Lots o' fun with the family.

Hope you and yours had a great Christmas too.

'Nuff said.

New trailer - The Dark Knight Rises

So sick! I am not worried about the bad guy's voice (Bane). This looks epic, dark and everything else you'd expect from a Batman flick. Can't wait.

New Cap Avengers pomo pic

Click to enlarge, true believers.

Testing new e-mail blog post

I suppose this is a quasi-tweet, if it works. An e-mail that can directly post to Blogger without having to login via the Web. OK, getting ready to hit 'send' in 3, 2, 1 ...
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

LOST IN LOVE - The Sounds

The Sounds still rock the bacon after all these years. Can't wait to see them live again.

Enjoy, true believers.

All hail Phantogram!

I've been a big fan o' the Phantogram for some years now. I'm glad they seem more legit now with actual music videos and such. It's just a matter of time before they make it big. Enjoy:



Here's a short-form video called "Turn it Off":



And who could forget this oldie but goodie?

R.I.P. Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America

Joe Simon: your legacy will live forever (along with Jack "King" Kirby) through the living legend of WWII, Captain America. As long as the red, white and blue shield exists, your legend will live. Thank you for creating my favorite hero. Rest in Peace, Joe.

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Associated Press - Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry’s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died at age 98. Simon’s family relayed word of his death Thursday, posting a short statement on Facebook and telling the Associated Press through a spokesman that Simon died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness. “Joe was one of a kind,” said Steve Saffel, of Titan Books, a Simon friend who worked with him on his recent autobiography, Joe Simon, My Life In Comics. Saffel said that Simon, born in Rochester, N.Y., in 1913, “lived life on his terms and created incredible things in the process. It was a privilege to know him and to call him my friend.”

Among Simon’s creations was a partnership with Kirby, a comic book artist and illustrator. The duo worked hand-in-glove for years and from their fertile imaginations sprang a trove of characters, heroes, villains and misfits for several comic book companies in their Golden Age of the 1940s, including Timely, the forerunner of today’s Marvel Comics; National Periodicals, the forerunner of DC; and Fawcett, among others. The characters the two created included the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos and others, like Blue Bolt. “Blue Bolt was the first strip Jack and I worked on together, beginning in 1940. He was a science fiction swashbuckler I created for Curtis Publishing, the company that put out the Saturday Evening Post,” Simon told the AP earlier this year. “They had decided to jump on the comic book bandwagon. Jack joined me with the second issue. Like Captain America, Blue Bolt got his powers from an injection, long before the baseball players were doing it.”

For Timely, the duo created Captain America, debuting on the cover of Captain America Comics No. 1 with the champion of liberty throwing a solid right-hook at Adolf Hitler in December 1940, a year before the United States entered World War II. “Jack and I read the newspapers and knew what was going on over in Europe. And there he was — Adolf Hitler, with his ridiculous moustache, high-pitched ranting and goose-stepping followers. He was the perfect bad guy, much better than anything we could have made up, so what we needed was to create his ultimate counterpart,” Simon told the AP.

“Cap is one of the great comic book icons, and as dangerous as the world is today — more than it was in the 1940s — we need him around more than ever to act as our moral compass,” Simon said.

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