I was dickering around with Ain’t It Cool News’s Comic-Con updates, which contain some tidbits about Joss Whedon — he’s thinking about doing a BBC movie about Rupert Giles from Buffy. And I felt a pang when I realized I hadn’t seen anything by Whedon onscreen since Serenity two years ago.
I have almost — but not quite — nothing to blog about today, so I will simply note that I am grooving, really intensely, to “The Mesopotamians,” off “The Else,” the new album by nerd-rock legends They Might Be Giants. There’s an intermittent quality to TMBG’s brilliance, but I don’t think that makes their genius [...]
