That’s a tagline for the upcoming flick Avatar from James Cameron.

My question for you is this: How many times has this happened before? A movie that really made movies never the same again?

Here are some that came to mind:

• Metropolis, 1927.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937.
• Psycho, 1960.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.
• Star Wars, 1977.
• Blade Runner, 1982.
• Tron, 1982.
• The Matrix, 1999.

I know what you’re thinking… too much sci-fi. I’m a product of my generation, sorry.

Lego makes an awesome Architecture series. The Landmark series includes the John Hancock, Empire State Building, and Space Needle, relatively affordable at about $30. The Architect series includes the Guggenheim and Fallingwater, amazing stuff but over $100 each.

I’d love to have all of these, even though I don’t know where I’d put the big ones. (That’s what she said.) I am reminded of the time when I was a janitor for Sears and I built a model of Sears Tower with masking tape and tampon boxes. Maybe I shouldn’t have shared that last bit.

I finally got around to watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the movie responsible for thousands of hits on my blog. It was terrible. The funniest parts were Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime excerpts, and they weren’t very good.

The DVD box said, “From the people that brought you 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, which is one movie I didn’t like and another movie I switched off after half an hour.

Kristen Bell did a good job, I think, but everything else about the movie was awful. Cringeworthy, in fact.

I’ve played hundreds of fantasy NFL games in various formats. I’m in a Yahoo league now and the game has fractional points. I thought, “Wow, somebody is going to win a really close game at some point with this system.”

In Monday’s NFL game between the Pats and Saints, I had NE’s Tom Brady at QB and NO’s Pierre Garcon at RB. My opponent, Joe Alread, was all done for the weekend. He had 74.58 points, that was what I had to beat. I was about 22 points down.

As the game progressed, the Saints came out like gangbusters in their home stadium and posted an early lead. Great! My QB’s team needed to throw to catch up and my RB’s team wanted to run the clock a little.

I watched my score climb by tiny increments, and finally I was within a half point. Wes Welker caught a 2 or 3 yard pass and the game was TIED at 74.58 points. The Saints had been switching RB’s all night, and Thomas didn’t play on their 3-and-out series.

Then the Pats got the ball, and Brady threw a pick. Minus points. I was down about half a point again. Saints started their series, no Thomas. It’s okay, there’s time left, the Pats will get the ball.

OH NO… behind 21 points with little time left, the Pats put in their backup QB! I didn’t even know his name! I’m in big trouble.

The Saints got the ball again, and Pierre Thomas is STILL not in the game! I go to the bathroom, sure I’m going to lose by half a point. Then I come back and Mike Bell, the other RB, came up gimpy and they put in Thomas for ONE PLAY. He got a couple of yards and I got what I needed!

Final score, 75.08 for me and 74.58 for him. I win by 0.42 points! Unbelievable! I’ve never seen a see-saw game that close in fantasy football before. It was really nerve-wracking!

Psychobilly Reverend Horton Heat rocks out to a Black Sabbath cover. Who knew the drummer could sing like that?

I may just post YouTube videos ALL WEEK! YOU CAN’T STOP ME!

Josh McDaniels is not the first. He won’t be the last.

Can something be essential even if nobody talks about it? Read this article. It makes me feel better about what I do for a living.

Lore in our games is the essential connective tissue that holds the illusion together. It doesn’t -do- anything; it won’t make your character faster, stronger or more efficient. It’s not an item you can get, not a piece of gear you can equip. Won’t help you overcome the challenges of the game unless the game’s challenges are actively designed around it. What it does is to provide a meaning to all that you see in game.

Signs point to yes. Context is vitally important for any experience, and more so with an artificial experience like a game. Verisimilitude comes from inside the game and takes root in your subconscious. Even if you say you don’t read it or you say you don’t need it, lore is the frame for the picture that is the game you’re playing.

Up is another fine example of the amazing film making skills of Pixar. It’s a movie that’s not afraid to be sad, and not afraid to be complex, with terrific attention to detail.

The lighting and textures achieved for this film are just astonishing. The story is touching and engaging on nearly every level. It’s even funny sometimes. I have nothing but the highest respect for all the folks at Pixar that make these wonderful movies.

I also have to admit that Carl Fredericksen, with his button nose, fashionable square glasses, luxurious eyebrows and tousled silver hair, is quite the attractive fellow. George Clooney, move over!

“All we’re tryin’ to do is win the mother fuckin’ game!” said Josh McDaniels, head coach of the Denver Broncos. Give ‘em hell, buddy. That’s what coaching looks like.

Of course, the NFL network apologized for airing the kind of words said during every mother fuckin’ football game. These hypocritical TV networks love to show reaction shots of the coach or quarterback after a pick, when the man is clearly mouthing “Fuck!” but when the audio kicks in they act like sissies.

(This video will probably be gone very soon.)