For today’s Monday video, I thought I’d share this funny little number about a raccoon who is really serious about renovating his TV room.

Get ready for a ton of movie trailers and previews the next few days, thanks to the San Diego Comic Con. First up is Beowulf, which is a CG/motion-captured film (similar to The Polar Expres). The film’s cast includes Ray Winstone as Beowulf, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, and Angelina Jolie. I actually did a double take while watching the trailer; I couldn’t believe it wasn’t live actors.

This will be the future of video games over the next few years, too. The animation is absolutely stunning!

Click here to see the HD Trailer

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Just checking in today with some new developments. I am selling my car on Saturday and will be finally freeing up some much-needed capital. I also finished up a roofing job earlier this week with my dad. This was the first such contracting job we’ve done in many many years, since long before I became self-employed.

Anyway, so this opens the door for me to move into the next phase of my plan. I’m going to be purchasing a Car Dollars course from this gentleman who outlines how money can be made in car speculation.

In some states, this is referred to as “curbstoning”. In Pennsylvania an individual may buy and sell up to five vehicles for profit in one calendar year. I figure I’ll give this a try for the next month or two and see if I have any luck.

But sooner or later I’ll be moving back towards the boats again. Over the last two or three months that’s really all I can think about everyday. I’ll also be doing some web design work over the next couple of weeks, which should be a lot easier and more lucrative than the work I was doing on that hot roof!

To find out more about the Car Dollars course and the automobile speculation I’m referring to, follow this link.

As part of their ongoing “Real Men Love” movie series, DoubleViking.com put together a pretty funny little article about the classic sci-fi film, The Fifth Element. The movie celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year, and they thought they would list all the various reasons why real men love The Fifth Element.

Inexplicably, a half naked Milla Jovovich is not among them. An inexcusable oversight to be sure, but it’s still a pretty good article nonetheless:

Real Men Love the Fifth Element

Just saw this yesterday and it cracked me up. Remember those old “Let’s all go to the snack bar” trailers? Well, Aqua Teen Hunger Force did an updated version of those and you have to love the modern take on bad theater behavior, as represented by a thrash metal snack food band.

I know it’s been a long time since I put anything up here. This is the longest break I’ve taken on my blog between posts. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on selling the car and doing some work outside the office. I’d hoped by this time that the car would be sold and that I would be moving onto the next phase of whatever it is I’m going to be doing.

Instead I’ve been able to pay the bills and enjoy the free time in the mostly nice weather over the summer. I meant to put up some pictures weeks ago of the Celtic Fling that I went to at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. I went with James, Brett and Tom and ended up with some good pictures. I also had some music files of the various groups we saw there and would like to post them here.

However, the way that I’ve been laying around and not doing updates to the site it’s taken a lot longer than expected. Perhaps it’s just the summer months that have made me feel more languid and lazy. That coupled with fewer updates in my personal life, and some lackluster summer blockbusters, has ended up giving me very little to talk about.

Oh, well, perhaps I’ll just begin logging on here every day and leaving little updates that perhaps in and of themselves are not very important. But at least they’ll be posts and at least the blog will continue to thrive.

And that’s another thing, over the last few weeks I’ve also been looking to upgrade this version of Wordpress that I use for the blog, including some style changes to this template. They’re a number of things about the template that I would like to change including a better laid out archive menu. There are also a number of WordPress widgets that I’d like to use to improve my overall search engine rankings. A number of old friends have found me via this website and improved rankings would help continue that trend.

That’s everything for now I’ll check in again and give updates.

Looks like I found something good right when it’s starting to break. I heard this song the other day and now have the video for you all to enjoy.

Colbie Caillat is out with the video to her debut single ‘Bubbly’, from the album ‘Coco’, out July 17th. Watch it below: