SYRACUSE, New York (AP) — Police and firefighters were called in to break up what was described as an “all-out riot” between members of the Sigma Chi and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities. According to witnesses, the adjacent fraternity houses were both playing a popular version of the video game Rock Band, called “Beer Rock Band,” [...]
In his interview with TIME, the Russian President reveals a few more secrets, answering the same questions asked to Person of the Year runner-up J.K. Rowling 1. Why doesn’t Fred appear in the woods at the end as well? There are snipers in the woods. Do not stray from the Dacha, it is very dangerous. [...]
Rowling wasn’t Time’s person of the year, but she was one of the runners up. There’s a rare interview with Rowling here, plus a bonus Q&A here. (Tonks was in Hufflepuff! Is that news? I can never remember what’s news and what isn’t.) Plus there’s a great picture of Rowling doing her trademark melancholy sorcerous [...]
I once had a sword. Or should I say, it just had me.
It’s the end of the year, and all the critics are churning out their “Best of 2007″ lists. My colleague Lev Grossman has so many that I would be hard pressed to choose my ten best lists among of all his “Ten Best” lists. Anyway, here’s my list:
I would never, ever be one to question Will Smith’s box office acumen — see this interesting profile we did, plus last weekend’s box office receipts — but did this trailer strike anyone as a bit off?
My brain has been colonized by friendly cold bacilli that are helping my body to produce lots and lots of phlegm. So I’m going to do some low-IQ posting today, starting w/ this new WALL-E trailer:
I’m on leave from Time for a month to work on a book, which is leaving me less exposed to nerd things than usual. I haven’t even seen fricking I Am Legend, for frick’s sake. But I’m keeping the blogging flame burning, sort of. Because, you know, it matters.
I ran through a maze of backstage corridors, desperately trying to make it back to the Spike TV Video Game Awards in time for Dave Navarro to give me a stupid prize. Finally, I found the way back into the show. And only one gentle old man was blocking my way. Unfortunately, that man was [...]
It used to be you felt like you were getting away with something when you embedded video in your blog — you were “appropriating” the Man’s media, “recontextualizing” it within your own “agenda.” Truly, early 2007 was a heady time for our nation’s idealistic young dreamers. Now I just feel like I’m another footsoldier in [...]
It was every Hollywood jerk’s worst nightmare: not getting to stand on stage and be handed a statue. Food poisoning had laid me low, and I was going to miss getting my Spike TV Video Game Award. Or was I? Hell no. Boot and rally, as people I hated in college used to say.
