The Hobbit

From http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/11/29/hobbit-peter-jackson-talks-smaug-cameo-creature-design/

Finally! The beginning of the great tale comes to film (and no...I'm not talking about the big bang), The Hobbits Tolkiens first book before the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I for one am pleased that Peter Jackson is the one directing it after finishing the L.O.T.R. series several years by. I for one are most eager to see the Hobbit (granted the midnight showing isn't going to happen....but that's more due to disliking crowds of people). In prepation for the movie I found a neat article where Peter Jackson talks about the vchanges in technology since the LOTR, going into how Gollum is going to be much more life-like giving the advances in motion capture and CGI over the last couple of years. Then there's going to be something quite fun (for someone like me that is), which is the Dragon Smaug will have an appearance in the first of the three movies.

Journal 4.5-Football

It was a delightful surprise when I awoke from the next-to-dead sleep on Tuesday to find out that in the battle of the back-up Quarterbacks (the 49ers and bears) that our beloved north rival was soundly whipped by the red and gold. Seeing this I found an article by  Bill Barnwell  called "Fourth-and-Short: Niners Dish Out a Recipe of Whoop-a%%". Upon reading the article the author does a wonderful job explaining why the 9ers came away with a win against the Bears. Its nice to have someone actually break down a scheme in football to understand whats truly going on behind the big plays. It was a double delight when it was a game in which the Bears lost. That said it is great to see that a back up was able to step up and performon game time handling the bears their third loss of the season. 

Journal 4, The End?

From. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/zombies

I've always found it intriguing that people are seeming obsessed with the idea of the world ending under a mountain of zombies. Figured I'd take a moment to throw my two cents in on the booming pop culture concept of zombies. Seeing ad the movie  World War Z  just released a trailer full of thrilling eye candy for zombie people. The movie is based off of a best selling about humanity's struggle and eventual  victory over the zombie plague. I've had the chance to read this book by  Max Brooks, I found it truly engaging but I digress, with the huge popularly with the world ending via zombies it begs a question, it's the world that  bad of a place that having to run from zombies seem like a good thing?  
  I mean, it's puzzling to me at the huge boom in culture surrounding it, often by those of slightly social awkwardness makes me wonder if many of the fans actually desire that state of the world, followed by the question of how can a society produce a person (people) the so desires the destruction of everything around them.

Cheers