Breaking Squid News, Stephen Hawking, Etc.

Extremely longtime readers of this blog — of which there might not actually be any — will know that nothing gets me more excited than breakthroughs in squid science. Judge then how excited I was when this footage surfaced:

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(Actually it surfaced in 2007, but the …

The Blob Blog: Post-election Malaise

Listen up ya heels! Dis is da Blob talkin, and youse gonna listen — or I’ll bust ya right in chops! Look, I may be an evil mutant, but I aint no chump. I know that George W. Bush was worse for this country than Magneto and Mister Sinister put together. This immovable mutant is an Obama man, all the way — Barack is the real homo

Simon Pegg Speaks

It’s not that big a deal. He probably speaks all the time. But if you want to watch him speak to somebody from Time, namely my friend Gilbert, check it out:

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If you’re mainly interested in Star Trek stuff,  jump ahead to 4:56.

The New Star Trek Trailer Is Online

I will not insult you by embedding a crappy version of it here. Go watch it on Apple.

My take: this trailer does not suck, but neither does it rule out the possibility of the movie sucking. I was pretty meh about the opening bit — if you want to show me that Kirk is some disaffected Rebel Without a Cause kind of guy, OK, yeah, I’m …

Breaking News: Gears of War 2 Is Pretty Good

We’re in the middle of some kind of weird video game heptathlon. I was most of the way through Dead Space when I picked up LittleBigPlanet, then I dropped that for Fallout 3, then I bailed on that for Resistance 2. Which is so over for me now that I have Gears of War 2.

Batman, City Vs. Batman, Movie

The mayor of Batman, a city in southeastern Turkey which has the same name as the DC Comics superhero, is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser The Dark Knight.

Experts predict this will unleash an onslaught of copycat lawsuits, currently waiting in the wings:

Beverly Hills, California vs.

Talking to Watchmen Artist Dave Gibbons

I had a chance to sit down with Dave Gibbons, the man who drew Watchmen. The interview isn’t here, it’s here.

Before I talked to him I didn’t realize how important it was for the genesis of Watchmen that Gibbons and Alan Moore were English. Apparently at that time superhero comics came from America, and that was it. New York City was …

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