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You can't make this stuff up.

Just in time for the reboot of the film series, the new collection from Genki Wear will begin with three scents:

Tiberius (Captain Kirk's middle name)

Red Shirt (from the uniforms of low-level, often doomed crew members in the original series).

And...well...Pon Farr, folks. Pon Farr.

From today's News & Record: Time called "Watchmen" one of the 100 greatest novels since 1923. The graphic novel was widely praised. It's a Hollywood blockbuster that's one of the year's most anticipated releases.

And right about now you're probably wondering: What is "Watchmen"? We're here to tell you. We break it down for you with a comic book of our own:

Excited to see this trailer for the Johnny Depp/Christian Bale flick Public Enemies.

Much less excited about G.I. Joe.

Who doesn't love a good manifesto?

Sure, they can be long, repetitive and self-righteous -- but there's still something thrilling about someone sitting down and tapping out a declaration of what they believe, how they function, and what's best for the world. Most of them you'd never actually want to read -- but the idea is sound.

This week there are two new manifestos online that I can get behind -- and to which I should pay more attention.

First, Dutch design collaborative Platform 21 offer The Repair Manifesto.

The basic thrust - ideal for these economic and social times - is that we should as a people stop designing things to be thrown away and start embracing the idea that repairing the things we use and extending their lives is good.

Of course, because it's a manifesto Platform 21 take a deeper - and more poetic - stance than "fixing things makes more sense than throwing them away."

"This isn't about money," the manifesto says. "It's a mentality."

Another good point: "Repairing things is good for the imagination."

There's also Bre Pettis and Kio Stark's Cult of Done Manifesto.

It's point: don't be frozen by the desire to be perfect. Instead do things. You may need to revise or self-correct. You may fail. But if you do you'll almost certainly learn something and that's better than having done nothing.

I struggle with this every day.

My favorites from the 13 point plan:

2) Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

5) Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

6) The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.

7) Once you're done you can throw it away.

8) Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.

This week I first noticed Sweetwater in the bottle on sale at local grocery stores. The six-packs offered: Blue, IPA and 420 Extra Pale Ale.

If you're someone who likes Magic Hat #9, then give Sweetwater Blue a try. As the name implies, it's a blueberry flavored beer. But it still tastes like beer. The IPA is, well, an IPA. It's hoppy.

And tomorrow, as far as I know, Fat Tire will land in Greensboro.

My guy over at Longshanks said that they're getting their first cases in tomorrow afternoon, in the 22 oz. bottles. If you know of any other places getting the beer around town let us know down below.

The Colorado legend finally comes to North Carolina. And the Atlanta brew, too. So far, it's been a good year for beer around here.

In other quasi-news, March 1 was Iceland's national beer day. I celebrated by making an Orange IPA at home. It's fermenting in the basement now and should be ready in about a month.

With the cool temperatures that we've been having, the wort's fermenting temperature has been staying in the mid to high 50s, so I'm hoping for a very clear, very tasty beer.

Which may be better than I can say for the arugula planted in my backyard two weeks ago.

Wait, wait, wait...

The Green Hornet movie, written by and starring Seth Rogan, is now going to be directed by Michel Gondry?

Somebody's punking me, right?

You may remember The Green Hornet from the 1960s TV show - straighter than its campy cousin Batman and featuring Bruce Lee as loyal chauffeur and sidekick Kato.

But the property's been around since the 1930s, when it was a hit on the radio.

I'm a little worried that like fellow radio heroes The Shadow and Doc Savage, this update's going fail. But with a script by Rogan directed by Gondry it may be so gloriously strange that I have to see it anyway.

Did an interview with local blogger, DJ and GoTriad contributor Joe Scott, one of the men behind The Mix Tape Film Series and the new Midnight Madness: Beer and a Bad Movie, which begins in March.

More info here.

For reference -- here's the trailer for Troll 2. You will need beer.

Update:

It seems there's an upcoming documentary about Troll 2 and its cult status as a "best worst movie." (Thanks to Ian McDowell for the tip)

We've seen the Obama comic book.

The Obama action figure.

And now...the Obama sushi.

The Japanese chef who created this delicious-looking sushi tribute to our 44th president says he used small shrimp for the skin, black sesame for the hair and fish paste for the teeth.

What, no arugula?

(Via Cory at Boing Boing).

We've posted exclusively about beer so far with this blog. From fancy brews to lawn mower beer.

And we'll come back to that again. For now, lets turn to box wine. Esquire's drinks guy David Wondrich posted this today on some box wine that you can feel classy about drinking:

Recently, though, things have started to get interesting. There are box wines that have actual character, from French country wines to California and Aussie varietals usually seen only in cork-stopped bottles. Some of them are even good. Take, for instance, the VRAC 2007 Côtes du Rhône ($30), a red real enough to be odd, even funky, a thing heretofore confined to glass. And the 2005 Cuvée de Peña ($30), an unfiltered red from the French Pyrenees that smells faintly and pleasantly of dried apricots. Then there's the "From the Tank" Côtes du Rhône ($35), a dark and earthy red with hints of raspberry jam that comes in an utterly plain brown cardboard container. Put it into a decanter and no one will know the difference. And when the decanter's empty, you can refill it another three or four times.

Too bad this didn't come in time to read before Valentine's Day. But the weekend is a'comin', and it's fun to have a glass or two with a good ol' mafia movie. I'd suggest Goodfellas.

Also, last night I had Breckenridge Brewery's Avalanche Ale at Mellow Mushroom (which also has some taphandles that I haven't seen elsewhere around town).

Breckenridge describes it as "Caramel maltiness with slight hop character" on their Web site. I just think it's tasty. Didn't really get much in the way of hops, so it must be super slight. Nice color though. And a rich head.

The Mellow Mushroom has a good bar area for beer drinking that's a little more spacious than their closest location in Winston-Salem. The footrest is a right height, the stools are comfy and large and the bar corner is rounded for easy leanin'. Bartenders there keep pint glasses in a freezer, which will be especially nice once it gets warmer outside.

If you're into the chilled glasses, that is. Personally, I prefer a room temperature glass unless I'm having something that's cheap/cold/domestic. And then I just grab a coozie for the can.

This could be really funny! I think he's going to be in the Kenny Mayne awkward vein, though, if the history of geeks on this show proves true.

My early pick without doing any reading or knowing some of these people would be Shawn Johnson (limber and lots of stamina, although her short and stocky build could work against her -- Nastia Liukin might have been a better choice) or Chuck Wicks, who is dating and dancing with Julianne Hough (I have a feeling she wouldn't have danced with him unless he had some rhythm, and she makes her partners much better than most).

The complete lineup for the eighth season of Dancing With the Stars, premiering March 9 on ABC:

• Belinda Carlisle, 50, singer
• Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, 34, reality-TV star
• David Alan Grier, 53, comedian
• Shawn Johnson, 17, Olympic gymnast
• Jewel Kilcher, 34, singer, TV personality
• Lil' Kim, 33, rapper
• Gilles Marini, 33, actor
• Ty Murray, 39, former rodeo cowboy
• Nancy O'Dell, 42, entertainment anchor (43 when the show starts)
• Denise Richards, 37, actress
• Lawrence Taylor, 50, retired NFL player
• Chuck Wicks, 29, singer
• Steve Wozniak, 58, technology billionaire