When I was 22 I moved to a small town in Maine where I knew nobody. My intention was to isolate myself the better to focus on my goal of writing the Great American Novel. Instead I focused on playing a lot of Risk on my Mac Classic. Wow, did I play a lot of Risk. I developed very intense feelings about Kamchatka.
Eventually I had to …
— once upon a time there was a really big frog
— David Fincher — Alien3, Zodiac — is going to direct a movie of Charles Burns’ fascinating, incredibly disturbing graphic novel Black Hole, about a bunch of teenagers who contract a sexually transmitted disease that causes them to become deformed in various ways. Yes — finally …
Greetings, horrible homo sapiens! It’s me — the marvelous mutant known as The Toad! I can’t wait to get my $600 tax refund check from the government! To the Cherry Hill Mall I will hop in a hurry! First on my salacious shopping list — a new leather jerkin, with a more magnificent Medieval neck piece! Then, perhaps a pernicious …
Jon Lech Johansen, a.k.a. DVD Jon, is an Internet legend for cracking the cryptography on DVD’s and in Apple’s FairPlay technology. He did this in a way that sounds totally great but which I am too stupid/lazy to really understand/use so feel safe mostly ignoring. Also he is Norwegian and like 16 years old. (Actually he’s 24 now. But …
This appears to be a leaked clip from the upcoming movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Apparently the studio (Warner Brothers — hey, we’re corporate cousins! Don’t tase me, bro!) has been busting them wherever they appear, but here’s one I swiped from Ain’t It Cool. The dialogue is obviously scratch, but the …
Continuing a breakdown of interesting nerdy (to me) tidbits about the “new comic book store” plot of The Simpsons episode, “Husbands and Knives.”
• One of the strengths of The Simpsons is our ability to get away with referencing extremely esoteric chunks pop culture. I’d been looking for a way to sneak Tintin on the show for a long …
The first Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer is up:
Lots of obligatory shots from the earlier movies, for the benefit of those who weren’t born yet. (Through diligent archival research and expensive digital touch-ups they managed to salvage 6 watchable seconds from Temple of Doom.) Then on to wry, aging Indy! …
In case you missed it, here’s the episode Matt’s been annotating below:
Fear the power of Hulu.
Yesterday Jim Poniewozik, Time’s TV and media writer-slash-Tuned In blogger, forwarded me a press release from the Cartoon Network that begins as follows:
After months of speculation throughout the television industry, Turner Broadcasting has landed the broadcast rights to the highly-sought-after CG-animated series, STAR WARS: THE
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Continuing a breakdown of interesting (to me) nerdy tidbits about the “new comic book store” plot of The Simpsons episode, “Husbands and Knives.”
Let’s talk about Jack Black. We’ve had a lot of amazing guest stars on The Simpsons. But Jack Black deserves a special place in the pantheon, for going above and beyond the call of …
Sunday, February 10, at 8 PM, Fox is re-running the comic bookiest Simpsons episode ever to have my name on it, a show called “Husbands and Knives.” The plot: the Springfield kids are sick of Comic Book Guy’s abuse, but he’s got the only store in town. Until — a new comic book store opens across the street, run by a NICE comic book …
This week for Time I wrote a lengthy piece about Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo. Originally I wrote it as a kind of fictional apocalyptic scenario, as a document recovered from a year in the hypothetical future (via a counterfactual-time-travel widget in development with Google labs) after the deal had gone through, and there was …
