There is a press blackout on reviewing the Watchmen movie until March 6. However, I’ve seen the movie, and I’m not press. Don’t worry, I’m not going to write a review of Watchmen. What I am going to write about is the emotional experience of seeing a piece of literature with which I have an intense personal connection LITERALLY COME
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OK, today my excuse is not that I’m hung over. It’s that it’s President’s Day. And I am honoring the, uh, presidents (is it the current president? presidency in general?) by not doing a proper blog post. Instead I will simply post a link to something I already did. How about this interview with Joss Whedon, apropos of Dollhouse, which …
Let me tell you a little something I’ve learned about scotch. When you drink a lot of it, you feel bad the next day. I’ve learned this before. I will probably learn it again. I think if I take any more Advil I’m going to have toxic shock syndrome.
So rather than do a proper post I’m just going to link to a piece I did for the magazine …
It’s a Nerd World exclusive, y’all: the new GTA4:TLaD trailer:
He punched a toll clerk! Rather lovely. It’s sort of uncanny seeing Niko (at :55) when you’re playing Johnny — it’s like he’s you, but he’s not you …
From the Department of Facebook Etiquette: It’s my birthday today. (Thanks! No, seriously, thanks! When’s yours? No way! That’s the same day as my aunt, dude…)
Like just about ever other idiot who immigrated to Facebook some time ago, during registration, I dutifully filled in my birth date. That, plus the fact that I am a …
They really did. It’s a first. One was an Iridium satellite (remember those?) and the other was a defunct Soviet communications satellite (is there any other kind?) The collision took place at noon EST, 491 miles over northern Siberia. No fair! Everything good always happens over northern Siberia.
Asked which satellite was at fault,
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There’s been a ton of (predictable) reaction to Walter Isaacson’s cover story this week, in which he argues that micropayments could save the newspaper business.
Bloggers and old media guys alike have derided the idea. People don’t want to pay for Web content online, they argue. They don’t want to be nickeled and dimed. Even …
A Pittsburgh neighborhood pulled together to stage a work of street theater for the benefit of the Google Street View van. See it here.
Two teachable points here. One, it’s funnier when people don’t know they’re on Street View. And two, I really don’t ever want to move to Pittsburgh.
It is the the purpose of a virus to possess its host, then force that host to in turn create copies of the virus. This the viral videos below have done to me.
1. Robot Chicken‘s opera version of The Wrath of Khan:
It’s funny because the special effects in operas really do suck!
The walk from 8th Avenue over to the Javits Convention Center on 11th Avenue in Manhattan is one of the most depressing walks in existence. It’s straight up industrial urban wasteland, and it’s not even wasted enough to be picturesquely post-apocalyptic. I’ve done it many times, and never without experiencing some form of suicidal …
This is microculture news, but too bizarre and delicious not to click on. Band of Brothers, a massive, longstanding, malevolent alliance within EVE — a game I don’t play, but which is, for my money, the most beautiful game in existence — was abruptly hacked apart this week by a double agent from the rival alliance GoonSwarm. Its assets …
New York Comic Con starts today. I’m not there, because I have a job. But I’ll be there tomorrow to sign galleys (that’s publishing-speak for early, cheapo, paperback versions) of my book and generally to enjoy the free access that my autographing gig gets me.
Though I’ll be missing the Futurama premiere, which is today, and the Joss …
