Blog of Excalipoor

Operation Kino 79: Bachelorette Turns Us All Into Mean Girls
This week on Operation Kino, we’ve regained ownership of Da7e but have lost David, so there are just three of us to soldier through and review the iTunes hit Bachelorette, which is in theaters this weekend. We’re enduring a kind of crazy week, so we’ve ditched Segment 3, but we do have a lightning round looking over the most successful fictional characters of the summer movie season, and then tidbits, in which Da7e digs into feminist outrage over the video game The Whore of the Orient, Patches shows his girlfriend The Wrath of Khan for the first time, and Katey laments the lack of Oscar buzz for summer 2012 movies. We end, as always, with your lightning round answers for dessert.

Film Sack 130 – The one about The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts romantic drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki “Pat” Morita and Elisabeth Shue. Join Scott, Randy, Brian and Ibbott as they chew their bikes out for being the worst ever.

Game on Girl Episode 27 - Get Your Con On! DragonCon and PAX Prime 2012
This week, Rhonda and I talk about two cons we attended on opposite sides of the country on the same weekend. Rhonda reports on her three favorite panels from DragonCon (one with a very special last minute guest appearance!) and I talk about my top three games I played at PAX Prime.

The Skeptics’ Guide To The Universe Podcast 372 - 9/1/2012
This Day in Skepticism: Passenger Pigeon
News Items: Neil Armstrong Dies, Naked Darth Vader, Homeopathic Candy, Hearing Voices
Special Report: Conspiracy Conference