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We have met the enemy

"Everybody needs a villain." - Kanye West ********** The Expendables is now on DVD (note: use the Amazon link at the bottom of this page to buy the movie, and you'll have bought one kick ass action movie). Stallone has said that he's planning to return to the franchise in coming years. Names that have been thrown around for the next group of action heroes with HGH assisted muscles and guns that never seem to run out of ammo. Rumored names include (in decreasing awesomeness): Dwayne "The Tooth Fairy" Johnson, Jean Claude Van Damme, Kurt Russell, Carl Weathers, Danny Trejo, the Old Spice guy, Steven Seagal, and Brian Bosworth. But that would be rehashing the original. What Stallone needs to do is up the ante. Make the Expendables 2 into a film that joins The Godfather Part II and Wayne's World 2 as sequels that surpass the original. What we need is the ultimate team of action movie villains. The Legion of Doom to the Expendables'

The long rumored black hole of suck has finally been located in Scranton, PA

What fresh hell is it where The Office and Glee decide to cross-promote in order to create a perfect storm of overrated, emperor's new clothes television? Y ou combine two overhyped shows with limited range and undeserved fan frenzy in a move tantamount to when Lex Luthor and Brainiac would pool their resources and team up against Superman. I suppose it could be worse: they could have thrown in Rubicon, a show that apparently I'm "not intelligent enough to appreciate," but thankfully AMC saw the light, pulled the plug and promised to give us more meth-synthesizing chemistry teachers and Zombies. Either way, I'm getting away from the thesis statement of this five paragraph essay: Glee must die and the soil of musical television will be salted by a latter day, media savvy version of William Tecumseh Sherman. I decided to watch Glee last week since GQ told me that most of the actresses were sluts, and that's a big prerequisite for any television program tha