I had no idea they were going back to the Hulk well, for more Hulk-water (I should trademark that word now: Hulk-water). More details on the new Hulk movie are at Ain’t It Cool News. Apparently they’re calling it The Incredible Hulk this time, and it’s a 2008 release. My God. It’s as if Ang Lee’s The Hulk never even happened!
Now Available in Paper-vision: Data Addiction
Just a pro forma link to my piece in the magazine this week, which is about my/our problems dealing with addiction to information: e-mail, blogs, Twitter, texts, digital music, etc.
Left on the cutting-room floor — for obvious reasons — was a vivid account of my recurring e-mail dreams. Does anybody else have these? They consist of a …
The Top 5 All-Time Alternative Supermen
A few years ago I wrote a piece about Superman for Time in which I ruminated about whether Big Blue really had a future as a character. Maybe he’s just too strong and too tough to write good plots around — those big muscles tend to break down any nuanced or believable plot-mechanics. Maybe he’s too morally good to be interesting or …
I Sadly Still Read Comics; Yes, I’ll Vomit if I Mingle
You know, there are times when I seriously wonder whether, if I had infinite amounts of money and time, and if I were capable of dropping my literary pride for a cotton-pickin’ minute, I would ever read anything besides comic books. There just aren’t a lot of other media that reliably deliver that kind of mainline tasp-like pleasure.
I …
The DRM Dilemma and Other Acronyms
This is a geek culture blog. It’s specifically here for me to blow off steam when I’m sick of writing tech-biz-gadget stories. So I frequently excuse myself from weighing in on hot-button topics like DRM. I’m going to do that again by linking to this fine analysis of the Apple-EMI announcement yesterday by the competition at …
Douglas Adams: The Lost Interview
From the online SF mag Darker Matter comes a little-seen interview with Douglas Adams from 1979, complete with vintage audio samples. It conjures up visions of an Edenic counter-Earth on which the Graham Chapman-Douglas Adams-scripted Ringo Starr TV special actually saw the light of day. (Or maybe it’s a nightmare alternate reality that …
The PG Cut of 300: We Will Hug in the Shade
Still haven’t beaten that deadline. Still posting YouTube clips. FTW. Herewith the PG-recut of 300, via Penny Arcade.
Transformers FTW!
I think it says something about my personal psychology that until I actually went and looked it up online I thought “FTW” stood for “f___ the world!” I am now given to understand that it means “for the win.” Who knew.
I’ve got a brutal deadline today, so I’m going to continue my lazy video-clip-embedding ways with this YouTube clip of a …
A Little More Nerd Music
One reason I know I’m not a true nerd is that a) I don’t think I’ve ever actually enjoyed a piece of machinima, and b) I don’t see the point of large orchestras performing music from video games. That said — and maybe I’ve said too much already — I’m going to “embed” below a couple of YouTube clips of videogame music performances that …
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Trailering
The Grand Theft Auto IV trailer is here.
So yeah: it’s set in New York City (here at Time we’re trained from birth, like Spartans, to add the word “City” after every mention of New York, capital C, to distinguish it from the State), and in the present day (there are some up-to-the-minute jokes in the billboards). Looks like we’ve got …
The Potter Ultimatum
Just a note to point Potteristas to a very useful post at the Leaky Cauldron summarizing some of the speculation (500+ posts as of this morning) going on over there about the Deathly Hallows covers.
Much chatter about the so-called “love room” at the Ministry of Magic, which I basically have only the dimmest memory of what that is. I …
Hugo Nominees Announced
I’ll paste in the Novels and the Short Stories below, since those are the categories that usually get the most interest:
Novel
Michael F. Flynn, Eifelheim (Tor)
Naomi Novik, His Majesty’s Dragon (Del Rey; also, Voyager, 1/06, as Temeraire)
Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace)
Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor)
Peter Watts, Blindsight …