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welcome to the second exciting installment of

“It came from on demand!”

just like before the criteria was firstly the Movie had to be available for free And it had to be something I’d never heard of…so with that I mind I hit up the ondemand.

I ended up watching a movie a couple of weeks ago called “Restraint”. This 2008 australian thriller starred Teresa Palmer (take me home tonight) and Stephen Moyer (true blood) and although I wouldn’t go so far as to tell you to check it out, it wasn’t that bad.

That won’t do at all…so tonight I went back to the ondemand and tracked down a movie sure to not disappoint me by being watchable…

1990’s “blood Games” aka “Baseball bimbos in hillbilly hell”

So our movie opens on a banner that reads “Happy birthday roy” hanging on the back stop of what I can only assume is the worst baseball field in America. Although you don’t learn this until after the game is over, it turns out Roy’s father has hired “Babe and the Ballgirls” to travel to the town and play the locals guys in baseball…dressed in uniforms that would make waitresses at hooters blush of course.

The plan goes horribly wrong however when the drunken hillbillies lose to babe and co. 17-2….despite some underhanded tactics by roy and the hillbillies I might add. This does not sit well with roy’s crazy, mustachioed, war veteran father, Mr. Collins …turns out not only did he buy them $500 to show up but lost an additional $1000 betting with the teams manager. I ask you does this crazy bastard look like someone who wants to lose a $1000…

so he sends his lackey vern (possibly the most successful person in this movie, more on that later) over to the girls showers to pay the manager, but like any villain he shorts changes him and the manager ,who happens to be father to babe and one of the other players on the team, sets off with his pistol to get the rest of his money.

Roy and the boys are all having some drinks at the local bar. The manager sneaks in and corners Mr. Collins in the rest room while he is pooping. He gets his the rest of his money at gun point and then we are treated to one of the greatest fights in the history of cinema. Mr. collins grabs the top of the door to the toilet and then delivers a pants around his feet drop kick to the manager and the two fist fight while mister collins is naked from the waist down, not that its ever shown but he was mid dump when the fight started. Midnight, (the manager) pistol whips him and dunks his head in the toilet before tying him up in the stall.

When he returns to the bus he finds two of the girls (including the younger daughter) have gone to look for him. Turns out the girls have run into roy and his buddy holt who attack and try to rape them.

This presents one of the first glaring holes in this movie…The bus is close enough to the bar that Midnight and girls have no problem quickly walking back and forth and at one point the girls on the bus can hear them calling for help…but they never run into each other? at one point midnight is seen walking in the background coming from the complete opposite way that the girls came from. Maybe he knew a short cut? I just watched the movie and I can’t think of how A) the girls knew that midnight would be at the bar….B) the Midnight would know that the girls would go to the bar looking for him.

But he arrives in time to save the girls but he ends up getting stabbed. Babe shows up and shots roy and the two groups escape. Roy and holt break into cars and steal rifles and as Babe and the ball girls try to escape roy shoots and kills the driver of the bus, which in turn crashes into a dumpster, which in turn kills roy…the girls speed off into the night as a freed from the toilet Mr. collins swears revenge for the death of his son…

Its now the next morning and the bus is on the road… Now the previous scene takes place at night, so even with being extremely generous to the film makers, the bus has been driving for at least a couple of hours as the manager bleeds to death and a dead body sits on the bus.

From here on out the move becomes a strange mix of Race with the devil and I spit on your grave. When the Bus runs off the main road the girls end up stranded and they all hike through the woods looking for help. From here on out, its the woman Battling the hillbillies with both sides losing people.

Eventually They end up at an abandoned saw mill or rock quarry or something, and its a wounded Mr. Collins versus the Babe in a fight to the death.

all and all my friends, pretty terrible, and that what made it perfect for “it came from ondemand”

There is almost no one of note in this movie, Most of the Ball girls never went on to do anything else and I’d guess they were mostly picked for the after game shower scene and little more. Laura Albert who played “babe” appears to be a stuntwoman having worked on such recent films as….”the town”, The first “pirates of the Caribbean ” movie and “batman begins”

Holt (don dowe) the sometimes comic relief, sometimes cold blooded pyscho rapist… who falls into water (and is thus saved from death) on 2 separate occasions. Had a role in the Jim carry “Bruce almighty” and was brought back for the sequel “evan almighty” and some assorted TV including Jag.

Mr. collins was played by Ken carpenter and played the camerahead cenobite in Hellraiser 3…what ever the hell that means.

Roy was played by Gregory scott cummins and had a role in batman returns and cliffhanger in the early 90’s following blood games…but most people would know him as Macs Father on its always sunny.

Last but certainly not least is the Arguably the most successfully member of the cast. George “buck” flower who played Vern but also racked up (before blood games) To be in the fog, and they Live…but I know him as red the bum in Back to the future and Back to the future part 2…sadly he passed away in 2004, some would say Joining his career…

you can check out the trailer for this gem at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6uTW4fBGU

Photo 26 May

little bit of magic from the introwebs I stumbled upon and now I leave for you to tumble upon.

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This show looks interesting, I might check it out in the fall.

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Pictures from Boston Con

photo 1- in the background I’m not sure what Rian is telling me in this picture But I appear to be fascinated

photo2- The stock*pile intern builds the banner.

Photo3- Not taken by megatrip but a photogrpaher who took all the photos and about 517 more on his flickr page.

photo4- the boys from drawbox

Photo 5- its in the contract both of them refuse to look up at the same time.

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free swag for The Stock*pile comics booth @BostonComicCon Make sure to swing by table aa813 this weekend!

Photo 14 Apr

The above image is supposedly artwork for Metal Gear solid 5. WIthout knowing anything else about this game (plot, release date, a single other shred of info) I’m officially excited. MGS is my favorite Gaming series and Big Boss is my favorite character and after playing peacewalker,I have to say that Big Boss needs at least one PS3 next Gen adventure.

Text 7 Apr racism alive and well in Cleveland

By Stephanie Siek, CNN

Cleveland (CNN) – It’s the Cleveland Indians home opener and the grounds outside Progressive Field are a sea of red and blue jerseys. As the crowds of celebratory fans walk toward the ballpark’s entrance, they pass a small group of protesters holding signs that say that the team’s name and mascot, Chief Wahoo, are racist and offensive.

About 10 people stand in a small park next to the stadium, quietly holding signs that say “People Not Mascots” and “Stop Teaching Your Children Racism.” Every once in a while, someone in the stream of baseball fans pauses to shout mockingly, “Chief Wahoo Rules!”, “You killed Custer” or just “Shut up!”

Robert Roche, executive director of Cleveland’s American Indian Education Center and a Chirichau Apache tribal member, says it’s been like this each of the 30-some years he’s been protesting. The shouting gets angrier and more frequent the closer it gets to game time, with many of the hecklers fresh from the nearby bars.

“If you stand here long enough,” Roche says, “you’ll see that racism is alive and well in Cleveland.”

Not long after, a man in dressed in a feather headdress, face paint and a sweatsuit airbrushed with images of Chief Wahoo walks past and makes faces at the protesters. People in the crowd around him break out in war whoops.

Local Native Americans and advocates have been protesting the name and mascot on Opening Day since 1973. They say calling a team the Indians plasters over the history of exploitation of indigenous people by the Americans who displaced and often mistreated them. They regard Chief Wahoo as even worse - the caricature of an American Indian with bright red skin, a toothy grin, hooked nose and feather headband plays on stereotypes of Native Americans.

Every year the protesters have spread the same message about the offensiveness of the team name and logo, and every year they face ambivalent and sometimes belligerent fans, who repeat the legend that the Indians team name was chosen to honor, not denigrate, Native Americans. It’s a legend that every Cleveland-area baseball fan grows up with, and one that appears in the team’s official storytelling.

According to a timeline on the Indians team website, the Indians name dates to 1915, when what had been the Cleveland Naps was renamed to honor an earlier player, Penobscot American Indian Louis Sockalexis. Messages left for a Cleveland Indians communications official on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were not returned.

In an April 4 story about the controversy in the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper, team spokesmanBob DiBiasio said he respects protesters opinions, but as to whether the team symbols are racist or not, “it is an individual perception issue… When people look at our logo, we believe they think baseball.”

The Cleveland Indians began using the Chief Wahoo logo in 1947.

A different examination of the team’s history showed the name’s origin is murkier. Ellen Staurowsky, a Drexel University professor who has researched the role of race in sports, wrote about the team’s naming origins in a 1998 journal article for “The Sociology of Sport.” Her examination of local newspaper articles printed around the time of the 1915 renaming cast doubt on whether honoring Sockalexis was ever part of the discussion.

“Sockalexis is not mentioned… the Plain Dealer (newspaper) reported that the nickname was ‘but temporarily bestowed until such time as the team could earn some other cognomen which may have been more appropriate,’” Staurowsky wrote. “This statement does not support the notion that the name was intended to permanently pertain to the team, let alone permanently honor a figure who did not warrant mention at the time the selection was announced.”

Staurowsky said it’s more likely that the loosely organized committee of sportswriters choosing the name wanted to piggyback off the success of the Boston Braves, which had won the World Series the year before. And naming the team the Indians lent itself to the sort of colorful war metaphors favored by such writers at the time.

Sockalexis had played for an even earlier incarnation of the team, the Cleveland Spiders. He was one of, if not the, first Native American to play for the Major Leagues. Sockalexis, an outfielder who was renowned for his distance throwing and hitting skills, was one of a handful of professional players at the time who had played for a college team – for Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and Notre Dame in Indiana – before being recruited to Cleveland.

The tall, muscular fielder played for just two years. Months after signing with the Spiders in 1897, he severely injured an ankle after jumping or falling from a second-story window while drunk. The man hailed as one of the greatest natural talents of his time saw his batting average go from .338 to .273, and his apparent instability led him to be let go from the team in 1899. He died in 1913 of heart failure, at 42 years old.

According to an 1897 article by Elmer Bates in the “Sporting Life” newspaper, Sockalexis was sometimes taunted by fans because of his heritage. “In many cases these demonstrations border on extreme rudeness,” Bates wrote. “In almost every instance they are calculated to disconcert the player.”

The bigotry displayed by those fans seeps through to the behavior of fans today, said Staurowsky, the Drexel professor, who said she occasionally travels to attend the yearly protests.

“I’ve always found it compelling that the club has claimed that the whole purpose of the naming is to honor an American Indian, and the behavior of the fans when they’re confronted with actual American Indians protesting is quite contrary to honor,” Staurowsky says. “The fact that this has been going on for years and the behavior essentially hasn’t changed speaks to a level of racism that is so very difficult to eradicate.”

It’s a fact that makes the fans in Wahoo caps’ heckling of the protesters even more galling, said protest organizer Sundance, a Muskogee tribal member and director of Cleveland’s chapter of the American Indian Movement.

“People know what they’ve been taught,” said Sundance, who goes by only one name. “In the United States, we have propaganda that allows this to go unchecked because it’s convenient to subjugate Native Americans to sell merchandise.”

A poll on the Cleveland.com news site this week said local attitudes are mixed. It asked readers, “Chief Wahoo and other Native American mascots, logos, and names: Racist or not?” Out of more than 5,300 votes cast by Friday afternoon, nearly a third said such depictions of ethnic groups were racist and that Chief Wahoo should be replaced. Another 31% said “No way. Chief Wahoo in particular is a beloved part of the Cleveland sports culture, not a racist symbol.” Another 26% said that the name and logo were not racist and only “overly sensitive, politically correct people” would be offended by them.

About 10% of voters said some such symbols were racist – “but there’s nothing wrong with ‘Warriors’ or ‘Braves’ because they imply strength, not racist exaggeration.”

Daniel Fall, a native Ohioan who flew in from his current home of Atlanta to see Thursday’s game, said he’s “not crazy” about Chief Wahoo. But Fall said he doesn’t believe the Indians name indicates any ill will toward Native Americans, and wants the name to stay.

Photo 7 Apr

it took a long time (and a first printing of the first issue) but I’ve finally come up with a forever winter logo I’m 100% happy with. Feast your eyes upon this typography!

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stockpile 2012 sketchbooks arrived today, check out the video of the unboxing and come and pick one up at boston comic con april 21 and 22

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They’re here! The Stock*Pile Sketchbooks! Get them exclusively at the 2012 Boston Comic Con

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