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  1. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    I agree with your criticisms. The fights are cool-looking but repetitive. There are some better ones later when Stick and a dude from the Hand show up, and when Fisk and Daredevil finally fight, but most of them are just DD hopping around people doing the same stuff. And I pretty much...
  2. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    So, on episode 7 of Daredevil so far and I am pleasantly surprised. It DOES veer from canon in some big ways (Foggy Nelson's mom not a high powered attorney, wanted him to be a butcher?) but surprisingly accurate in others. They seem to be setting up The Hand to appear, among other things...
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    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    I'm sure we all had this marked on our calendars - DAREDEVIL DAY!!!! http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=80018294&trkid=13963550
  4. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    In Fantastic Four news, first official full-on images of the Thing. Now, I really want to like this movie. Rather, I want there to be a Fantastic Four movie that is worth liking. But the casting is questionable (my issues are with Kate Mara and the fact that the dude playing Reed Richards is...
  5. arf777

    The Arizer Air

    Well, I have both good and bad news re my experience with the Air. Love the one I've had for a while, and last week (during a Passover Seder, no less) I got my mom, who like me is a chronic pain patient, to vape with my Air. My mom had not used canna in any form since 1961. She loved the...
  6. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    Heh. That's actually a great theory. Joss Whedon both knows his Marvel canon (check the parallels between the 1st Avengers movie and the 1st two issues of the Avengers comic from 1963) and likes fucking with overly obsessive-compulsive fans (which I fully admit is the category I'm in - I have...
  7. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    So...the Vision got completely left out of the final Avengers trailer. But he is important enough that, on top of a previous trailer ending with his reveal, a poster of JUST the Vision has now been released. He looks awesome, but Joss Whedon has apparently gone all...
  8. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    That fucked with me too.
  9. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    More video from the 'Pool movie set. http://comicbook.com/2015/04/08/set-videos-deadpool-waves-to-fans-performs-acrobatic-stunts/ FYI, this is within sight of my older sister's apartment in VC. And she isn't even a serious Deadpool fan. I wish I could drop everything, go crash at her...
  10. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    I like the way the sauce caramelizes when applied still over heat. Only at the very end though. Don't like when the sauce goes on earlier. It gets too thick and scorched. Beef, though, even ribs, I do likes some dry rubs. Unless I'm actually curing the beef, where I like wet cures better...
  11. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    Pure comic book news - big bummer- today the death of Deadpool :cry:, Deadpool 45 / 250, came out (#45 in the current numbering, they got 250 by counting just about every appearance he has ever made). Can get the 80+ page issue digitally at comixology. It includes a Deadpool / Thanos story...
  12. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    Dude, I do not 'need' sauce for ribs to cover up anything. I want the sauce if I'm going to EAT THEM. What is the point if I'm not going to eat them the way I like 'em when they're done? I personally do not like ribs without a glaze-type sauce. I know plenty of folks like them in dry rubs or...
  13. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    You're on dude. On ribs or anything else. But the true test when it comes to bark, and therefore wood versus electric, is not ribs, but pulled pork or slow-cooked beef. Those are where you get the bark. But if you want a rib-off, we can do that too. If you want to do ribs, I need to make...
  14. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    I know there is a wood box. But wood-fired is different, and makes different texture, than wood heated electrically or with gas. It creates a different chemical reaction. I've had the bark from electric smokers. It is not the same as wood-fired bark, so much so that it is not really the same...
  15. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    These are good for non-wood smokers. Most competitions do not allow gas or electric smokers, but I'd say not because of how good they are, though they ARE an order of magnitude easier to use than wood or charcoal. Without wood or charcoal, you can't get bark. You ask me, without bark it ain't...
  16. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    Let me know if you want a brine recipe. You don't have to smoke corned beef, you can just brine it and simmer it or roast it, but I like it smoked. Adds another layer of flavor.
  17. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    Corned beef, sauerkraut, sour pickle and mustard, all homemade.
  18. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    More Deadpool movie stuff! Shots from the set, Deadpool in action. Between the cars and the other chaos, it looks like they're shooting the scene from the leaked script that the test footage was based on. There are more at...
  19. arf777

    Virtual Banquet Thread

    The pork and shellfish have really specific, and nearly rational, reasons. Pork was ritually consumed and sacrificed by the Phoenicians, Assyrians and other enemies of the ancient Hebrews. So on the model of 'my enemy's god is my devil', the enemy's holy food was rejected. Also, Israel is...
  20. arf777

    Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

    No clue how I missed this when the news broke. A terrifying rumor, that Marvel may be casting Vin Diesel, of all people, as Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans. As a fellow geek pointed out, that'd mean he'd have even fewer lines to memorize than in Guardians (for those who do not know, Black...
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