Articles tagged with doom

The Pump Action Shotgun: The Sound and the Fury

posted by lee on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 3:28pm

I take it you’ve seen this famous scene from Terminator 2 (click on the image for the video and skip to 6:50; sorry, no embedding available)…

and reached the second level of the game Doom

…but you may not have read Michael Crichton’s novel Next:

She dropped the towel and the robe to the ground and methodically loaded the shotgun. She pulled the action bar back and forward, making a chung chung! sound. (Page 496)

Chung chung!

He froze. He knew the sound of a double-action pump. You never went into a room after you heard that sound. (Page 500)

Three different pop culture art forms, one favorite weapon: the pump action shotgun. So what is it exactly about this weapon that keeps blowing us away, time after time? Find out, after the jump. Chung chung! (?)

“Things Are Getting Interesting” is getting… interesting

posted by lee on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 7:36am

The new “Things Are Getting Interesting” advertising campaign by Remy Martin, purveyor of fine cognac, is so ripe for Overthinking ™ that I don’t know where to begin.

A few weeks ago I started noticing these new ads in the NYC subways. These and similar posters are plastered everywhere:

alcohol induced threesome.

Interesting: alcohol induced threesome.

Girl on Girl Action, Bondage, Cannibalism?

Interesting: Girl on Girl Action, Bondage, Cannibalism?

Things get even more interesting, after the jump.