Day of the Ninja

If you didn't know, today, December 5th, is the Day of the Ninja.

That said, if you are a pirate, you are pretty much screwed because ninjas will totally flip out and kill you more so than usual. Furthermore, a cutlass is no match for a good ninja-ken, you grog swilling schooner monkeys. Your flurries of "arrrr" will be met with stealthy silence.

So in honor of such a momentous day, go rent American Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, A Life of Ninja, Full Metal Ninja, Ninja: The Final Duel, or The Super Ninja and have a good time.

Or maybe just go rent Dolemite.

The Last Man on Earth
It's being pimped on BoingBoing right now, so as an addendum to this post, I should also do my duty as a comic book geek and say that if you aren't reading Y: The Last Man, you're missing out on one of the best comic books out there in any genre. Nay, I'll go further and say you're missing one of the most compelling stories told in any medium right now.

Y: The Last Man follows the travails of Yorick Brown, the last living man on Earth after something wipes out all his other fellow fellas. Well, okay, so there are two males left on Earth, the other one happens to be Yorick's pet monkey, Ampersand. While this seems like the set up for a prurient parade of adolescent fantasy, a world of women is actually a strange and dangerous place, one filled with militant Amazons, political intrigue, and even ninjas (how apropos). Yorick's main goal is to find out what caused the death of all other men on the planet and to find his girlfriend/would-be fiancée.

I pimped Y writer/creator Brian K. Vaughn's work earlier with great kudos for his original graphic novel Pride of Baghdad. Seriously, though, do yourself a favor and pick up Y: The Last Man. There are eight collected volumes out right now and the series is in its final year.