It’s only 15 degrees Fahrenheit outside.

While I don’t have to worry about stray probe droids or wampa attacks, I can’t help but feel like I’m trapped on Hoth. I keep starting my car, just to make sure that its hyperdrive hasn’t been deactivated. After all, I’m going to have to get the fuck out of the driveway once Vader and his crew roll up.

They don’t mess around.

Okay, so I don’t have to worry about the Dark Lord of the Sith tossing my dessicated corpse into a snowbank. But I also don’t have the benefit of taking a dip in a bacta tank. So how am I, a regular fanboy without any mastery of the Force, supposed to survive the frozen hell that is the Bostonian January?

Why, with the sweet warmth of alcohol! On this early Sunday afternoon, I’m tossing back a bottle of the oak-aged elixir that is Innis & Gunn Original.

C’mon Chewie, punch it!

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Watson (yeah okay Martin Freeman shh)  is getting his dark and dirty on in this new picture from The Hobbit: Subtitles are the Shiznit.

Want to see it? Hit the jump, you fools! (#GandalfReference)

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DC! You’re always changing man. You just dropped a new logo like seven years ago, and now you’re already filing for a new one? And it’s way ugly? Settle down, I hardly know you these days.

Hit the jump to peep the logos.

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If you’re on this website, you’re clearly emotionally disturbed. Maybe. Hey don’t take offense. However, if you’re on this website you’re also probably internet savvy and you know all about the SOPA. So I won’t waste my time explaining it for the 1,000th time. However, I will tell you that the House has said they won’t vote on it until a consensus is reached.

Sweet?

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Behold the Little Ghost Nebula, founded by astronomy swagger beast William Herschel back in the 18th century. The fuck are you doing with your life? Herschel was finding nebula back in the comparative goddamn dark ages. This little quaint Nebula of Ghostiness may be a look into what’ll happen to our own star.

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Yeah man! The night is dark and full of horrors and shit. However, the Spring is going to be moderately more balmy and full of episodes from season 2 of Game of Thrones. HBO has officially announced a premiere date for the son of a bitch! Everyone drink.

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Rob Liefeld, resident genius and adolescent reflection of the warping effects of living within a hyperreality is expanding. His blight is moving. Spreading. The contagion has not  been contained.

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A guy at my local comic shop a couple of days ago said he didn’t care for the Daniel Craig Bond flicks, and took especial issue with Craig’s “banana hammock” from Casino Royale. I’m going to guess he won’t like this first official image from Skyfall.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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I’m about to vomit about the new Star Wars RPG. This is Press Start. If you don’t give a fuck about the title, I’ve strewn the following throughout the post to keep your attention: a hot dog eating contest, a wasted Han Solo, and if none of those fit your fancy, the conclusion of the post is a fat kid dancing. Isn’t that enough spectacle?

Allons-y.

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[Awesome Comments On Old Posts: When someone drags up a post from OL’s past and drops ridiculous nerd love or hate, we’ll let you know.]

I’ve decided to create a new occasional column, and you can figure out the concept behind it from the header above. From time to time on OL and assuredly on other sites as well, some dedicated and emotionally unstable reader (describing 99% of the internet) will lambast either the poster or a commenter. What makes it so amazing is that they’re generally so seething with hate, and they’re so fucking old. Someone dragged the waters of the Internet to find the post, and then smashed the keyboard with  vituperation.

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