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!
1. Red Dwarf. It’s coming back, in the form of a two-part special with the original cast that will take them back to Earth. I never got into Red Dwarf — I was in college when it was on and never really watched it. But everybody says it’s good. So it must be good. Now [...]
I wrote two articles for Time this week. Two. Because that’s how I roll. I roll prolific. Article #1: A piece about the great switchover to digital TV — the “analog sunset,” if you will — which is supposed to happen on February 17. Except now, maybe not. My advanced polling techniques suggest to me [...]
I’m almost ready to forgive the Internet for Twitter, on account of you can watch the whole season premiere of Flight of the Conchords on it for free. It’s funny because they talk funny!
In the very brief period of my life when I was extroverted and not introverted — circa ages 7-9 — I appeared in my elementary school’s production of A Charlie Brown Christmas as Charlie Brown. I still have the yellow shirt with the ziggy black line. Ironically I now have a bald round Charlie Brown [...]
By which I mean that. My colleague James Poniewozik has seen Dollhouse and blogged about it. He makes a good point:
I was in the audience for tonight’s taping of Spike TV’s Scream Awards, “celebrating comics, fantasy, sci-fi and horror.” It’s a fun show, much more entertaining than the 6000 other award shows I’ve been to. Here are my awards for things that happened at the show itself.
– io9 says that Variety says that the Clone Wars TV show might actually not suck. For your consideration, here’s a clip of Yoda breaking some robots:
