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• is playing Battlefield Bad Company 2. http://ping.fm/RXGSs #
• Need to find Bad Company 2 players to fill up a squad that can actually play and not just default to the Recon Class and just spawn camp. #
• via TechDirt – Sony Deletes Feature On PS3's; You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought – http://ping.fm/a8OGw #
• via The Kartel – 5 Reasons Why The New NBA Jam Will Win You Over Again – http://ping.fm/GzsF3 #
• Is the 'Sell By' date also considered the expiration date? #
• Catching up with 24 on HULU. #
• Never… under any circumstances, deviate from Jack Bauer's plans or commands. Otherwise you end up dead. #
• via LifeHacker – Why You Should Never Pay More Than $10 Dollars For HDMI Cables – http://ping.fm/oDLZD #
• FOX News will do anything to promote Sarah Palin. This includes fake interviews with celebrities like LL COOL J. http://bit.ly/bBW65r #
• UPS dropped off the Visento wireless keyboard that @jayajayoh got me for my birthday. Hopefully this will work with the MacMini on my TV. #
• Just got back from Keith's Komix. He got me the Red Spartan Bubble Shield statue dirt cheap! Now that's quality customer service! #
• RT @ebertchicago: Advisory to New Yorkers: "Clash of the Titans" was shot in 2-D. Why pay $7.50 more for a needless extra dimension? #
• For my fellow tech geeks and those who are curious, this is what I got today: http://ping.fm/Cij6H #
• reading Blackest Night # 8. Then figuring out what to do for dinner. #
• Off to see HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and some dinner at iHOP afterwards. #

The first full trailer for The Expendables was released today. It looks like Sylvestor Stallone’s action flick promises to have more of story than I was first led to believe. I haven’t read much about this movie only that knowing that it had a huge cast consisting of a lot popular action stars I’ve seen on the big screen since I was kid. I was surprised to see Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzeneggar in what looked like cameo roles. The only person that I thought would have been a cool addition to the cast was JVCD (Van Damme). But he turned Stallone down when he was offered a part. And now I think he’ll be regretting that decision once he sees this trailer and when the movie comes out.

Expendable: capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish a military objective.

THE EXPENDABLES is a hard-hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things arent quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers.

Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is a man with nothing to lose. Fearless and void of emotion, he is the leader, the sage and the strategist of this tight-knit band of men who live on the fringe. His only attachment is to his pickup truck, his seaplane and his team of loyal modern-day warriors. His is a true cynic who describes what he does as removing those hard to get at stains. The team behind him is made up of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), former SAS and a savant with anything that has a blade; Yin Yang (Jet Li), a master at close-quarter combat; Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), who has known Barney for ten years and is a long-barrel weapons specialist; Toll Road (Randy Couture), a skilled demolitions expert and considered the intellect of the group; and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), a combat veteran and an expert in precision sniping who struggles with his own demons.

When the mysterious Church offers Barney a job no one else would take, Barney and his team embark on what appears to be a routine mission: overthrow General Gaza (David Zayas), the murderous dictator of the small island country of Vilena and end the years of death and destruction inflicted on its people. On a reconnaissance mission to Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet their contact Sandra (Giselle Itie), a local freedom-fighter with a dark secret. They also come to learn who their true enemy is: rogue ex-CIA operative James Monroe (Eric Roberts) and his henchman Paine (Steve Austin). When things go terribly wrong, Barney and Christmas are forced to leave Sandra behind, essentially giving her a death sentence. Haunted by this failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena to rescue the hostage and finish the job he started. And to perhaps save a soul: his own. via IMDB

JCVD’s character could have been: A master martial artist, who specializes in down-punches and over exaggerated spin kicks, that joins the crew one last time as he struggles to reconnect with his family and battles a drug addiction of a substance that makes him nearly unstoppable.

The Expendables hits screens this August 13th in glorious 2D!

~ LoneWolf