Comments on: Fear and Loathing at San Diego Comic-Con

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:16:15 +0000

Just because I don’t get the chance to tell this story often enough…

My wife & I wrote a “renegade”, urban, romantic, darkly comic (& human-only) adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, wanting JD to play the male lead (a musician called the Hat-Maker). It took us two years to get an agent, get it around enough for people to take us seriously, and finally, into Infinitum Nihil, JD’s company. Their new development exec LOVED the script and told us we’d hear back on Monday after he showed it to JD et al. We were peeing in our pants!

Two months go by… Not a peep from them… Then Burton announces his Alice, with JD as the lead. I swear I heard the sound of Pacman dying. We suspect JD told his exec that he couldn’t even read it because of legal implications, if there were any similarities with Burton’s (which I doubt).

Burton’s Alice better be f*ckin’ fantastic.

By: buzzorhowl

buzzorhowl — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:21:31 +0000

“Apparently he has confabulated Wonderland and Looking Glass into a single story.”

For the record, Disney did the same thing.

By: THE BEAT » Blog Archive » SD09: All your parties

THE BEAT » Blog Archive » SD09: All your parties — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:40:17 +0000

[...] love this quote from Lev Grossman spotted by Robot 6: Spend any time at all at Comic-con and it’s hard not to go all Hunter [...]

By: Church

Church — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:14:09 +0000

@dennitzio

Yup. Makes me crazy. Also Safari, and also since the new “Let’s not make Josh feel left out” redesign.

By: Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment » SDCC ‘09 | Quote of the day

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:02:52 +0000

[...] – author Lev Grossman, writing from Day One of the convention [...]

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » July 24, 2009: Nerd Altamont

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:41:27 +0000

[...] “Spend any time at all at Comic-con and it’s hard not to go all Hunter Thompson. There’s just so many damn people. Nerd culture has gorged and gorged, and then bloated, then collapsed under the weight of its own flesh. The excess flesh has turned septic and begun to necrotize, and that is the stench in the air in San Diego. This isn’t nerd Woodstock, it’s nerd Altamont.” – Lev Grossman [...]

By: anon76

anon76 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:37:42 +0000

@hbomb- WH40K? Why, back in my day we had to play the old WH Fantasy RPG if we wanted to be introduced to the lords of chaos. And the GM made the actual players trudge through snow to his house (uphill both ways, naturally) just to play.

@dennitzio- happens to me all the time as well, and it’s infuriating. I’m also on a Mac, and I first noticed it when the site switched over to the new format.

By: yogi

yogi — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:52:40 +0000

dennitzio, are you using a mac? It does the same on my home computer, it is pretty annoying, but if you just stop loading the page after a few seconds, it usually doesn’t do it. (My guess its one of the ads that causes it.)

By: dennitzio

dennitzio — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:24:12 +0000

OK, @walkinghbomb, if our posts were a game of Civ, you’ve gone way into blackness.

By the way, does anyone else have their browser window jump to the top if you scroll before it’s done loading? Drives me nuts, usually does it three times at least.

By: walkinghbomb

walkinghbomb — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:36:18 +0000

@anon Oh, that would have worked better. But, I’m a WH40k fan. My first thought ran to Nurgle. Now if only Lev would write a post that would work with Slaanesh…