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Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006 - 1:23 a.m.

We were supposed to go out and look for luggage. We never actually made it to the mall, as we could see it over the hill and it was full.

Silly me, I'd presumed that the back to school rush would have been over by now. Nope!

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So late last night, I was watching Cinema Insomnia with your host, Mr Lobo, and I happened to see that the featured crapfest was "Invasion of the Neptune Men".

We've seen this ghastly concoction in other places throughout fandom, but I'm ashamed to say that before late Saturday night / early Sunday morning, I had never taken a good look at the lead.

I finally did, though. And guess what? ... It's Sonny Chiba.

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Sonny Chiba is an acclaimed actor and martial arts expert who was in the very first motion picture ever issued an X rating solely for violence. (Street Fighter in 1974. Apparently the scene where his character rips off a man's penis with his bare hands was what ... um... clinched the rating.)

Anyway, the other significant place you've seen Sonny Chiba is in the Kill Bill movie where The Bride seeks out the legendary swordmaker and asks for a blade to be crafted for her so she can go kick some ass.

So if you can tolerate sitting through "Invasion of the Neptune Men", you'll see Sonny Chiba almost before he was on solid food.

It's an otherwise forgettable piece of shit, complete with scratches on the film to indicate laser fire, and little plastic spaceships on wire, in which the sparks fall down and the smoke drifts up -- but the novelty of seeing an excellent actor at a young age will probably not make up for it, actually.

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I think that's enough. Have a nice Sunday.

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