Thursday Rundown

• I need a holiday. Someday when I have the free time to keep this thing up to date as I've always intended, I'll be able to write about all the stupid junk great stuff I want, but for now here's the two week summary (plus others I'm sure I've completely forgotten):
• Bayonetta - * * * * (out of four)
• Dead Rising - * * * (out of four)
• Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop - * (out of four)
• Dead Rising 2: Case Zero - * * * 1/2 (out of four)
• Dead Rising 2 - * * * (out of four)
• Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock - * (out of four) 
• Halo: Reach - * * 1/2 (out of four)
• Machete - * * * (out of four)
• Metroid: Other M - Zero Stars (out of four)
• The Other Guys - * * * 1/2 (out of four)
• A Serbian Film - * * 1/2 (out of four)

• This is hilarious, in the grand tradtion of the awesome lost kitten poster design exchange.

• This is easily the best thing to come out of Halo: Reach. By far.

• There's been a lot of discussion about the rising Tea Party, having emerged from the deepest, darkest, stupidest depths of America. Comprising nearly entirely of stupid, old, racist Republican morons, the inept "movement" is one of total confusion: seemingly united without a specific message or ideology or cause, they seek to represent a fictional American minority who have suspiciously, strangely appeared with the election of a black president - because they're racist idiots. Two articles inamongst many - White America Has Lost Its Mind and the superb Rolling Stone Tea and Crackers - cover the astonishing movement in all of its confusing complexity.

• The Most Epic Picture of Betty White. Ever.

• Bollywood has outdone itself.

For the Week of the 3rd October 2010 - 9th October 2010

Film Releases: Buried (Wide), Eat Pray Love (Wide)

Notable Video Game Releases: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (360, PS3, PC), Comic Jumper (360)

Rock Band Releases: R.E.M. Pack 1, T. Rex Pack 1

Zero Punctuation: Halo: Reach