Wanna see a dog riding a lawnmower? I thought so:

This is just too easy.

Watch it again, several times if you feel the need to, because it gets better and better. Since it's so short it won't waste too much of your day like the Double Rainbow Guy, which was totally worth it anyways. I love how the dog gives a quick look at the camera; it's like "ha! I told you I could do it!" I wonder if it plowed into a fence or something off camera. In all probability nobody would have cared, because they knew they had struck comedic gold.

What else?

Well, the San Diego Comic-Con just finished, which is the mother of all Comic-Con's. Don't know what a Comic-Con is? Think of it like the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) that I described here in this blog from June 17th. Long story short it's where any major Superhero, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy film gets its running start. Comic-Con can make or break your movie, because if the buzz is bad coming out of there, good luck scoring a good opening weekend. Oh yeah, there are comic books there too.

Some stuff worth mentioning from SDCC:

Marvel pulled out all the stops, showing the first footage seen of both the Captain America and Thor movies. I haven't seen the Captain America footage, but Thor is available here. Just click on the "play" button, anything else will send you to some random site.

Chris Evans, who was the flame guy in the Fantastic Four movies, will be donning the red, white, and blue costume and carrying a big friggin S.H.I.E.L.D. (anybody knows what I mean by that acronym gets a thumbs up) as Captain America. I personally think he's a great choice, being the only actor in Fantastic Four that outperformed the mannequins in JC Penny. I've also head Push was decent, and as disappointed as I was with Sunshine, he was good in that too. He's got the look of the All-American Hero that is obviously essential for the role.

Honestly, I don't know much about the Captain America comics, and I won't take a bottle of pills if it fails at the box office. Director Joe Johnston has a lot of ties to the original Star Wars trilogy, working on the groundbreaking effects, but his own movies have been very hit or miss. His best movie was probably October Sky, which I thought was excellent, but after that: Three sh**storms known as Jurassic Park 3, Hidalgo (kill me now), and famously oft-delayed The Wolfman. Oh, I forgot to mention that he did bring us the Rick Moranis masterpiece known as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which was written by the great Stuart Gordon (who directed Re-Animator).

Back on topic.

Thor is directed by Kenneth Branagh, whose only film I have seen is the cheese coated adaptation of Frankenstein with Robert Deniro in the title role. I don't have a whole lot of confidence in it besides the fact that they chose the Chris Hemsworth to play the Norse God. I've only seen him on screen for about twenty minutes, in his turn as Captain Kirk's doomed father who goes down with the ship during the opening to JJ Abrams Star Trek, which was epic.

The next step apparently threw many a geek into cardiac arrest, as the entire cast of The Avengers was introduced on stage together, besides Evans and Hemsworth, you had Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Samuel "I SCREAM EVERYTHING" Jackson (Nick Fury), and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), and Clark Gregg (S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Coulson). The Avengers are basically a team of super heroes who assumingly beat the crap out of anything in their path. If Joss Whedon makes this work it could make a billion, no kidding.

Next is something very dear to my heart, a heartwarming adaptation of my favorite continuing comic series: THE WALKING DEAD. Many who read this blog should know that I have been anticipating this for some time. In fact, it was only a few weeks after I started writing on this site that it was announced that the comic book would be adapted into a full-on tv series by AMC.

How good is it going to be? Like I said AMC is broadcasting it, they only have two of the best shows on television with Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and have a real eye for quality. It's directed by Frank Darabont, only responsible for The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and one of the most underrated horror movies in some time: The Mist. So it's not like the showrunner is some newbie looking to make a name for themselves, this guy has made some great stuff already. Gale Anne Hurd, a producer on James Cameron's Terminator films, as well as Aliens. Like I said, big hitters here.

The preview that escaped via bootleg from Comic-Con shows that not only are people excited, but that it will have some serious dramatic depth, much like the comics. Although yes, the comics are on the surface a zombie horror story where characters you've grown close with die on a regular basis, you will find that if you ever read them you will feel some emotional attachment to see some of them go. Bottom line, this is gonna be good, and as hard as it may be to watch for the squeamish, it will be worth the time. Think along the lines of a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better version of The Stand, if that interested you.

Heres the trailer that has everybody buzzing:

Only about two months until it begins, time to start reading the comics people. You can buy the Walking Dead Compendium at amazon.com for a special price of forty bucks right now. It contains issues one through forty eight. Once you're hooked, you just can't stop. Plus, it may come in handy as a survival tool when the Zombie Apocalypse occurs (whahahahahahaha).

I'm done for now, good luck - DoUbLe B

P.S. - Heres a funny bonus video for ya:

Pacey-Con with Joshua Jackson from Joshua Jackson