Star Trek Day

It's Star Trek day! I'm celebrating... are you? I've got my Gorn costume ready and I've had my fill of Romulan Ale and Tronya. Lets honor this day with a little song:

Brought to you by the letter...

Consider for a moment the letter Z, won't you? Thank you. The last and very lonely in a line of 26 letters in the English alphabet, you rarely ever give it a though I bet. No... but you really should. If it were not for this tiny letter you would not have a beautiful word such as "azure" or be able to warn of a seizure. So let us all contemplate the letter Z the best way that I know how and that is with a video. Do not enjoy this video... relish it.

Coming off of that truly inspired video we should consider the uses for the letter Z. True words such as "zebra" are fantastic but now is really the time for us to be creative. As of late video game designers have creatively slapped the glorious Z to every game that has been created for a preteen girl. I for one see no issues with that. Facebook pets games have become hip now with that swapping of an S with our friend the Z. After all doesn't the letter S already have a whole slew of three and four letter words that it can have fun with? One group who has put the letter Z to great use is Ubisoft. Imagine Babyz! Go ahead and imagine them right now!

With that last video filling our hearts with relief that the letter Z will not die... nay it thrives I sign off. Again, thank you Ubisoft for not forgetting about the little, lonely, Z.

A Mediocre Movie

What are the chances that a summer blockbuster prequel movie based on a previous movie trilogy, based on a cartoon, based on a series of comic books will be decent? Well using the highly anticipated X-Men Origins: Wolverine as a guide might cause one to be alarmed. You see Wolverine isn't a horrible movie but it's far from the multimillion dollar blockbuster we were promised.

If you can't tell the Low Standards offices (Alex and I)took an early day showing of X-Men Origins:Wolverine, the first of two confirmed origins tails... I know... queue sarcastic excitement. The two of us went into this with two varying expectations for this movie. Personally, I was burned by X3, the last excuse of an X-Men movie, and I was not putting a lot into the trailers or the build up. Needless to say my standards for this movie were way down. Alex, on the other hand, was expecting this to be a fantastic movie.

In the end this movie disappointed us both, me less so than Alex who was visibly irritated by the lack of excitement in this movie. Outside of the thin plot (that felt like I was watching Anakin Skywalker turning to the dark side... again), sloppy execution of said plot and the excessive amounts of mutants that served no purpose, this movie just was not fun. Perhaps it was the mutant mania this movie suffered from or the sloppy plot execution... no, no, no... I take back what I was about to say before I say it. This movie just revels in it's messiness and bleak outlook on this character. I don't need a brooding baby that screams when it's made and then cries when it's readily available supply of breasts are taken away. This is what Hollywood does now and it doesn't look like the trend is going away any time soon. One positive though: this movie had some color in it not the soul crushing grey, brown, red, orange, or blue color pallet throughout... yes I'm talking to you 30 days of Night!

To give you a better idea of what we saw today, we at Low Standards, always excited to bring you quality, have procured an exclusive clip of X-Men Origins Wolverine. In this clip Wolverine finds himself in a fight with the deadly Sabretooth. Please enjoy.

Yes, I know, not at all as exciting as we hoped it would be either. This is how the entire movie feels. In short: save your money.

More Silence, Less of This

This is what makes the internet so vital to the future of mankind.

Squirrels Again...

More on squirrels...

... that is all.

Squirrels

On the way to work today I think I may have run over a squirrel with my car. Isn't it the law of nature: if you see a squirrel don't swerve your car? Well while I'm determining the extent of my grief for this squirrel incident please enjoy this clip on how to make a Squirrel Melt.

Soulja Boy's Alleged Plagiarism?

A celebrity scandal has surfaced. Rap artist "Soulja" Boy has been caught allegedly stealing unauthorized music from another musical group to make his hit song "Turn My Swag On".

No comment was given when we contacted Mr. Boy, but it is believed his publicist will release a statement in the coming days.

As for the artists in question they have declined to speak on the nature of this rumor, but reporters here at the LSP Blog have dug up the original video that "Soulja" Boy sampled off of. We will post it here below so you can compare.

Here is "Soulja" Boy's video that has been called into question.

Here is the recently surfaced video he has been accused of sampling illegally from. Please compare (this works best when both videos are played at the same time):

Compelling I know, but again this should be treated as pure rumor and speculation for the time being. Please stay glued to this site and we will post news as soon as it becomes available