Nerd Monkey

I posted last night that The Avengers is still smashing records in its fifth weekend at the box office.  Today, Marvel’s runaway hit managed not only to pull ahead of Dark Knight domestically, as was predicted, with $538,116,000 domestic, but also pulled ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in worldwide sales, with $1,331,300,000.  When [...]

What a heart-wrenching story this is.  One could certainly call the folks at Marvel the real life superheroes considering the events within the company in the past year.  Not only being the first company with an openly gay superhero (for quite some time now, actually), but featuring the first same-sex marriage in the history of [...]

Amid recent rumors that the new Star Trek series will attempt to parallel the original series with the appearance of Khan in the second movie, Star Trek II star Simon Pegg has put those rumors to bed, or is covering for them very well.  Early reports said Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Comberbatch would be playing [...]

If you can believe it, Marvel’s The Avengers is still breaking records.  The May box office numbers are in, and while May wasn’t that great of a month for the box office overall, Marvel’s The Avengers takes no fault in that.  In fact, the movie is responsible solely for slightly over 52% of the total [...]

Yes, you read that properly.  If you’re like me, you’ve held off buying the Avengers build-up movies, waiting for the gigantic box set that would surely have been made after The Avengers comes out on DVD.  Well, it quite possibly may have been worth the wait.  Marvel.com is currently taking pre-orders for The Avengers box [...]

The top 10 worst superhero movies of all time as voted on by the good people at Goodreads.com: 10.  Supergirl “After losing a powerful orb, Kara, Superman’s cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch.”  How could you go wrong with that?  Oh, that’s right.  The plot [...]

These are the unsung heroes of art.  Those men and women behind our laughs, our tears; behind making us sit at ease or sit at the edge of our seats.  Cleverly using skillful devices and reinterpreted formulas, they cast a shadow of feeling and emotion over us to which we owe a debt of gratitude. [...]

Yes, you’re seeing this properly.  This is a fully functional Rubik’s Cube dresser designed for children.  Yes, I will have the adult version.  I’ll have twelve.  Behold the awesomeness in live action below.   [Source: Dornob]

Below is the official trailer for Morgan Spurlock’s new documentary, Comic-Con: Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. In the past, Morgan Spurlock has created many controversial documentaries such as his famous indictment on McDonald’s called Supersize Me.  Controversial as it were, not only in the general public, but in scientific circles as well, it would appear [...]

  If you enjoyed these, please check out Tenori-Tiger on Deviant Art – packed full of various cosplay themes.  I think she just became my new favorite Deviant.  Now, where’s my cake?!?  

This was originally posted on theoatmeal.com this morning, and being a life-long Tesla-lover, I had to share it as well.  It’s full of interesting facts about Tesla, as well as the real, and not so commonly known, history of modern electricity.  Click the image to view larger!  

Far be it from me to jump upon the rumor bandwagon, namely the most recent slew of them going around about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s recent cryptic Tweet regarding playing a superhero on the big screen.  However, – and this is a big however – it is being reported by sources within the film industry [...]

  Don’t panic.  Nobody has touched the infinite improbability drive.  You’re not in a cafe at the edge of the universe which has since been proven completely impossible.  The reason you’re not in any kind of danger at all is because you know where your towel is.  That’s right.  Today is Towel Day 2012!  Today, [...]

Well, he’s right, isn’t he? I know exactly the feeling. This quote is, however, as pretty as an airport. Back in my day… And I won’t. ‘Nuff said. QED What is it about normality, anyway? Some people, however, will fail to work it out. And again, I won’t.

In case you don’t know by now, Matt Smith is running the Olympic torch for the London Olympics.  He’s only just started, as the torch was lit from the Norwegian Church (pictured above).  The photo was Tweeted at 12:30 CT making it bright in early in the Western Europe at the moment.  Good tidings to our current [...]

Wow.  And a great start it is.  Assimilation, just released today in comic book stores around the country, is already promising to be a fantastic series.  It starts off immediately into the action with Earth being assaulted by probably the most formidable twosome in comic book history: The Borg and The Cybermen.  From there, we [...]

Okay, so I have a habit of changing things around and shaking them up as much as possible.  This blog, however, has remained relatively the same since I started it.  However, I felt it was time for something newer and a little more sleek.  Of course, the blog won’t be changing at all.  I’ll keep [...]

  Think you’ve got enough Big Bang Theory in your life?  Well, think again.  Granted, some of these are already out of stock, but you can order and preorder to your heart’s content.  And instead of turning it into some sort of racial thing, just don’t ask why there are three Sheldons but no Rajesh [...]