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It's a culinary "game over, man!" The roasted chestburster, seen in the movie Alien in a slightly less-edible state, was served to dinner guests of one "Grumpy Frenchman", who fashioned the movie prop/entree out of roast pork and sliced ham. It sounds good enough to eat, but it certainly doesn't look good enough to eat. It looks good enough to kill with a power-loader.

Grumpy Frenchman also served his guests Soylent Green (a green-dyed shortbread), Pork Bao (a favorite of Serenity pilot Wash), the Klingon blood-worm dish called Gagh (red-dyed noodles), Hasperat sandwiches from Bajor (a tortilla filled with hummus and crunchy veggies), Aunt Beru's infamous blue milk (vodka, Blue Curaco, and milk), spice beer (Fuller's Honeydew and cinnamon) and spice sticks (snickerdoodles, basically) from Arrakis, Lembas wrapped in Mallorn leaves (cornbread, wrapped in a printed paper image of a Mallorn leaf). Everyone at the party got tanked on a cold pitcher of Slurm (aka the drink known as Russian Spring).

You can see the photos on Grumpy Frenchman's blog, with links to all of his recipes, so you can host your own sci-fi dinner party.

For years, cosplayers (those who dress up as their favorite anime/movie/comic/videogame characters at conventions) have lived with the reputation that they're not scoring with the opposite sex. That may be true for guys running around in full Klingon regalia, but we've stumbled across visual proof that guys dressing up like Hobbits are definitely making inroads with the ladies.

Swedish Bed provides numerous examples of short dudes with hairy feet making love connections well outside of Middle Earth. Each one is equal parts magical and hilarious -- guaranteed to warm even Smaug's black heart while making the Balrog giggle at the absurdity of it all.

In the photos, Hobbits work their mojo on not only one, but often two fair maidens. Shy hobbits get cozy with tall Elvish chicks and their chest pillows. These curly-haired bigfoots have some serious skills. Check out the hotness in the gallery below.



[via The Swedish Bed]

One of the most memorable moments from George Lucas' original Star Wars trilogy doesn't involve Darth Vader, Han Solo, or Luke Skywalker -- instead, it involves Princess Leia. In Return of the Jedi, we wind up in the dingy fortress of Jabba the Hutt. Jabba's got Han Solo frozen in Carbonite, but he has another prize as well -- Princess Leia. The formerly demure rebel leader is now Jabba's slave (complete with a metal collar that keeps her chained to his dais) and has been forced to parade around in a glorified bikini. Seeing the Princess, who'd been dressed modestly in the earlier films, now converted to a sex object undoubtedly caused millions of male lightsabers to turn on all at once.

Carrie Fisher made the costume work and became the stuff of nerd dreams for eternity in these scenes. Fisher may have moved beyond her Slave Leia days, but the costume lives on, turning up at comic conventions, videogame expos, and anywhere else cosplayers tend to congregate. It's enduring appeal seems to be driven by the fact that it's iconic -- everyone recognizes it instantly -- and provides nerd cred while remaining sexy at the same time. Still, we all have different ideas of what's hot -- and while the Leia slave costume has inherent sex appeal, there have been some instances where wearing it doesn't really work. Check out the gallery below for a few examples.

Luke Kaye, a UK Jedi Knight wannabe, has spent an obscene amount of money on the colorful tattoos covering his back, arms and legs -- a tableau comprised entirely of Star Wars characters from all six of George Lucas' films. His obsession started five years ago when he got his first tattoo -- a piece featuring the diminutive Jedi badass Yoda -- and since then he's added 13 more characters to his body art collection.

Kaye has endured over 1000 hours under the needle and feels this proves just how deep his Star Wars dedication is. "I have to pluck up the courage to keep going back but I will not stop until I am happy - I am nowhere near finished yet," he explained to the Daily Mail. They also confirmed that Kaye isn't living in his parents' basement and subsisting on copious amounts of Hot Pockets, as he spoke of his girlfriend's distaste for his "hobby". Yes, there's even a picture of his girlfriend over here -- apparently she really does exist.

How about a Christmas tree made of electricity? Dr. Peter Terren, an aficionado of Nikola Tesla, likes to manipulate electricity to capture unusual images.

Popular Science has a photo gallery of some of his current creations, including the image above. Terren uses a Nikon D 300 camera and a technique he calls "electrickery" to create the images with Tesla coils with a fishing rod and sinker, and household power. That's right; according to Popular Science, this is home grown electrickery. These aren't photoshopped, but they do require filters and a long exposure. The results are clearly quite festive.

Terren, the 52 year old physician and father of three has been getting a lot of media attention. The Discovery Channel is so impressed with Terren's work, which includes a variation on Rodin's "The Thinker", that they're planning a segment on his Christmas trees.

You can also see more at his website, Tesla Down Under. There you can see he also likes blowing up stuff, too.

Fantasy often mirrors reality, but it appears that's sometimes more true than other times. A picture circulating the internet shows a young boy who is the proverbial spitting image of the enthusiastic wilderness explorer trying for a merit badge that ends up on a trip of a lifetime in the Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios Up.

Still, it's a cute picture, isn't it? it would be absolutely perfect if he was smiling instead of merely looking at the camera.

Egads, lady! I don't want to get into a pro-life/pro-choice debate, but you really should consider all your options here. At the very least have your OB-GYN check your midichlorian levels. This uncanny discovery was posted on the photo blog TotallyLooksLike, and, yes, it totally looks like Emperor Palpatine. Either that's a blurry ultra-sound photo or you're about to give birth to a Dark Lord of the Sith. Good luck with that...

"Go get the door, John..."

Assuming it was another party guest, some cousin or playmate with a present in tow, I was happy to oblige. But it wasn't just some kid at the door. It was DARTH VADER, Dark Lord of the Sith, and to my just-turned-five-years-old self it may as well have been the Devil himself looming like a black spectre of death in my grandparents' carport.

There's a picture of me, somewhere in my mother's things, with both legs off the ground, running to the nearest bedroom, away from Darth Vader. I'm about a foot off of the carpet, defying gravity, literally sprinting through the air as I left the entire fate of my partygoers at the cruel hands of the Empire. I was terrified.

Mom dug a couple of pictures out and posted them on Facebook recently, and I'm glad she did. It's one of my favorite moments from my childhood, and it makes me reflect on how kids' brains work in regards to separating fact from fiction. I knew it couldn't possibly be the real Darth Vader, because he wasn't a real person, and yet, there he was, at my fifth birthday party. As I hid in my grandmother's room, I knew in my heart that there was an everyday man in that costume, but there was still a big enough part of me that was incredibly cautious as well, because what if he did turn out to be the real Darth Vader? What then? Would my plastic lightsaber (with three changing colors!) be enough for a one-on-one duel? I needed to be prepared.

I don't think there's much to say here other than this Star Wars tattoo is quite possibly the sexiest geek-related tattoo I've ever seen on a female. The tat, which is in the shape of a 'V' and sits right above the female's ViJay, shows two X-Wing fighters closing in on the Death Star ... and all that purple around the Death Star is either an invading STD or outer space (I'm hoping it's the latter). Not quite sure what that red swirly thing is on the left (lipstick mark?), though regardless this chick definitely gets our award for Sexiest Star Wars Tattoo Ever!

Check out a few other cool geek-related tattoos in the gallery below (I'm totally diggin' the Spider-Man tat, though it does look kinda nasty.)



[via Slashfilm]

Chances are you wouldn't spend $1500 for a Pepsi, but some of you hardcore Back to the Future II fans might. Though the auction has now ended (without a buyer, I believe), someone with very bad spelling was selling what they claim to be the futuristic Pepsi bottle from Back to the Future II. Remember it? The Pepsi bottle popped up while Marty was pretending to be his son in that Cafe 80s scene?

While the seller didn't have a certificate of authenticity (kinda shady if you ask me), they do go on and on about how you should believe them ("I bought this item over 8 Years ago here on E-Bay from a big time prop collector in CA. of movie Props. He had 2 of them at the time, and I was able to win one. I thought I would never sell this item, but you just never know happens ..."). Don't you hate it when "just never know happens"? Anyway, dude (or dudette) was selling this bad boy for a whopping $1500 -- a pretty insane price for a prop that looks like it's worth about fifteen cents. The seller also claims to have a Hover Board, which is a prop I think I might be interested in, but if the Pepsi bottle is $1500, I can only imagine how much they'll try to get for the Hover Board ...

Check out a few images of the Pepsi bottle below. Any of you up for this purchase?



[via MTV Movies Blog]