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Today is brought to you by the number nine. Here are some useless facts about today, but please exercise caution with that article. DO NOT be "that guy" and paste it into an email, make each paragraph a different font/color, and send to everyone in the office. Because no one likes that crap. Knock it off already. I'm just sayin'.

G.I. Joe - The Complete Set.

I have a ton of posts in the queue back from when I was slammed at work, and this is one of them. Digitalbits announced the G.I. Joe Complete Set (there's also a website set-up specifically for the set). I am stoked, and I really want to buy this, even though I have copies that "fell off a truck" and I've only watched a couple of discs at most. But I dig the packaging and it looks like they've added a lot of extras to make it worth it. It is kind of steep though ($145), but you do get a flash drive dog-tag and rub-on tattoos, which is pretty awesome.

At some point, I will might write a review of the recent G.I. Joe movie (yes, I saw it). Yo Joe!

Crash Course.

Ok, I guess I've never talked on this blog about one of my favorite shows; Wipeout!, but, unless you live under a rock, you should know by now that it is the awesomeness. Well, last night ABC premiered Crash Course, and after one episode, it is my favorite new show. And ABC really didn't do a great job of promoting it; the only reason I watched it was because it was after a new episode of Wipeout!, no wonder it earned only average ratings.

They take teams of two people and they make them drive through courses or due stunts. The cars are all reinforced with roll-cages and they wear a ton of safety gear, but they can severely crash the car; in the first episode, one team managed to roll their car and end up on the roof. It is awesome.

Did I fail to mention that it's hosted by Dan Cortese and Orlando Jones? Because it is. I don't think that they add much to the show, I just think it's funny that both of their careers have winded up with them co-hosting a show like this.

You can watch the first episode here.

Papa Johns Camaro.

Really cool story about the Papa Johns Camaro. I had noticed lately in a couple of commercials that he drives a Camaro, but apparently that was one that he had built to replicate the one he had when he was a teenager. It must be nice to be able to offer $250,000 to find an old car. But I guess when you're the CEO of a national pizza chain, you've got a lot of money that needs to get spent.

The funny thing is that Papa John's is offering a free large one-topping pizza to Camaro owners. I have a 1967 Camaro, but it is at my Mom's house and the battery probably needs to be charged. So that's a lot of work for a free pizza.

It's stories like this that make me glad that I never sold my Camaro, which I've had since I was 19. I first learned that lesson from my Dad. In 1997, my he was lucky to find the 1966 El Camino that he bought brand new in '66. He saw it rolling down the street with a for sale sign and immediately jumped in a car, tracked the guy down and bought it. He was the first owner in '66 but had to sell in the '70s when he and my Mom were starting a family. Before he bought it back, he told me that he really regretted selling it. In forty-three years, it has had three owners and has stayed in the same five block radius, which I think is pretty awesome.

Blogging.

Does anyone read or write blogs anymore? I'm kind of more into Facebook. It seems like a lot of people aren't actively reading blogs and most of the blogs I used to read are updated so sporadically I've just stopped reading them. I have pretty much done the same thing as well (sporadic updates), except that I don't have a huge following, so no one really cares. I probably have about 20 posts in the queue, but they're mainly just links pasted into a new post, so I have to go back and remember why I thought they were noteworthy and then write something about it and possibly find art to go with them. That's a lot of work, and my job has ratcheted up the workload like 19 notches, so I don't have the free time I once did.

I guess I'll keep doing this, but I've just noticed a pretty big decline in the blogosphere.

Veer Summer Activity Book.

Veer just released their 2009 Summer Activity Book. In past years, these were mailed out and they were pretty awesome. While still pretty awesome, this year's offering is now only available as a pdf download. I guess in these troubling economic times, printing seasonal activity books are not that profitable.

The last couple of years are also available to download, all you have to do is scroll down on that page and they're all there. They are all pretty fun.

Machete.

Yahoo announced that Robert Rodriguez has started filming on Machete. Remember that "preview" from Grindhouse? I am totally stoked about this news. When I saw Grindhouse, I walked out wanting to see Machete already. And the cast is ca-razy: Danny Trejo, Jeff Fahey and Cheech Marin are joined by, get this, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez, Don Johnson and Lindsay Lohan.

Here's the preview from Grindhouse in case you forgot:



This is going to be the greatest movie ever made.