NERD DEVICE CHALLENGE

The Proton Pack from "Ghostbusters," versus the new PASIV Dream Machine in Christopher Nolan's upcoming "Inception."

Which one's better? Cooler? Niftier?

Here's the Proton Pack. It made the cover of OMNI ya know.

And here's the new, alleged Dream Machine from "Inception."

I know, I'm a bit of a sucker for Nolan viral. I mean, it worked freakin' well with me on "Dark Knight". But, uh, how sick is this! It has instructions!

In the end, my allegiances lies with the Busters... could this looks like a most formidable challenger. Can you say super nerdy, lazy Halloween fanboy costume?

"It's not a briefcase!"

Post Stuff: Bangin' the Mobile

Because I would never put it on Facebook ... but I feel it should be seen to be believed. This little delight's too good for that Zuckerberg zitface.

I present to you: Blake and the Batmobile.

A little context?

Summer 2008. I was a design/writing intern for The Chicago International Film Festival and in mid July, for our Summer Gala, we hosted the Chicago premiere of "The Dark Knight" at Navy Pier. I mean, they shot most all of the excellent film here, and WB probably felt like they owed us a premiere — seeing as England, L.A. and New York got them. We gave them their Gotham for chrissakes!

Anyways, after the event, after containing ourselves from trying to accost Chris Nolan, Gary Oldman and Richard Roeper (actually that last one, not so much), a coupla us interns got the go ahead from our supervisors to run around, yank some swag, and get photo-ops. Well, they brought in a batpod and the batmobile from the production as show pieces.

There was no way I was getting behind the wheel of those things, I mean, come on. There was a red velvet rope! So, the next best thing? A picture that resulted in the above. I look hefty, tired and uncomfortable. But hey, I still have the picture...

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Shit.

Someone would tell me if I started looking like this, right? I mean Batman's a favorite of mine. But, please. Tell me?