— Terrafugia has successfully road-tested its ‘flying car,’ in defiance of the fact that I don’t really want a flying car. It basically just looks like a plane with big wheels on it anyway. I’m holding out for hoverbikes.
— Apparently IBM is thinking about buying Sun. Sure, why not?
Stephen Colbert interviewed Neil Gaiman today on The Colbert Report. It seemed that Colbert was having a hard time maintaining his narcissistic pundit persona, as the fanboy within was striving to break free.
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The real Stephen Colbert is known for his …
I’ve referred to Jess Nevins’ notes in the past here and there, when I’ve been stumped by something in a comic. They are insanely exhaustive and always right. But it wasn’t until I read through The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier with Nevins’ notes (introduced and blurbed by Alan Moore himself) on the desk …
That sounds like the title of one of Matt’s posts. But this appears to be real. How does stuff like this just surface? Somebody scanned and posted a 125-page transcript of the original Raiders spitballing session between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan in 1978. Because they a) just have this kind of stuff lying around, …
Last week, I guess because of Watchmen, the editors of Time.com asked me to make a list of the top 10 graphic novels of all time. (The headline — “Not Just for Kids” — should be helpful to the like 6 people left on Earth who still think graphic novels are for kids.)
Here’s what I came up with. Note that this list is non-ordered:
What is this, like number eight or something? They’re getting better, anyway:
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OK, I’m not actually liveblogging the Watchmen movie. I saw it like three weeks ago. But I’ve held off writing about it till now, ensuring that by the time I did there would be so many reviews already out there that the whole idea of reviewing Watchmen is totally passé. (Time‘s review is here. My official musings on the adaptation, from …
An Alfred E. Newman-faced Rorschach (or is it a Rorschach-bodied Alfred E. Newman?) graces the cover of MAD Magazine this month, and, having somehow not yet reached full Watchmen saturation, I eagerly gave it a read. And, while MAD-tastically silly, the magazine’s movie parody (“Botchmen”) committed a crime I now realize is …
ACT ONE
Power (In The Name Of Responsibility)
Beautiful MJ
J. Jonah James-One
Swinging To Stand Still
The Unforgettable Death of Uncle Ben
In Goblin’s Country
INTERMISSION
ACT TWO
Where Ock Arms Have No Self-Awareness Chip
Mysterio Ways
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Rhino Me
Zooropa (Aunt May’s …
I was going to blog about the new series of D&D podcasts featuring the Penny Arcade guys, Scott Kurtz (PvP) and Wil Wheaton. They’re here. Check out Wheaton when he casts Radiant Vengeance at about 16:00. Dude gets agitated. (Then he rolls a 5.)
Then I noticed this post on io9: Philip Jose Farmer died. He was 91.
You don’t hear him …
Look, Diablo Cody is making a zombie movie! That tears it. (Takes off hat and stomps on it.)
At first I thought it was a sequel to Juno, where Dwight Schrute eats that chick’s brain … my hopes are dashed. It’s an adaption of a novel called Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament:
I saw this via the bloggy part of PvP. It’s a comic that explains and also shows some of the cool stuff people could (and, it argues, should) be doing with webcomics.
I love webcomics and don’t think they’re in any sense broken or in need of fixing. (I lost about 2 hours the other day reading the entire archive of XKCD,which is about …
