Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Finally, love is possible for Apple elitists: Introducing Cupidtino: The first and only dating site for Apple product owners.
[via The Daily What]
Potentially the greatest thing I’ve seen all day: …
So I’m taking over for Allie on the Daily Dose today because I’m nice like that. Let’s see what Allie’s been banking all day for the roundup.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Vampires don’t glisten in the sun!: Oprah premiered a new trailer for whatever the new Twilight movie is. …
Wednedsay, April 7, 2010
Here’s what’s going on in nerd news around the Web:
Love Twilight? Why not major in Vampire Lit? Yes. It’s real a real degree.
Last night’s LOST recap:
(Via The Daily What)
First look: BATMAN: ODYSSEY ships in July. Catch a glimpse of the cover here.
Verizon and the iPhone, a game of cat and elusive
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Was it really only a matter of time?
Stephanie Meyer’s alluring vampire romance series has entranced an army of teen girls and – who are we kidding – adults too, leaving them thirsty for dangerous, yet blazing love and brooding vampire boyfriends. Reading the Twilight books from the perspective of 17-year-old Bella Swan, your …
Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010
Today in Techland: What a day. Steve brought us some Toy Story 3 exclusives, I spent my time curled up with the latest zombie book (hint: battle-axe, meet zombie skull), and Evan schools Chris Evans on what he needs to know before being an acceptable Captain America. But just in case you missed
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E-mail hath no fury like a woman neck-deep in a Twilight frenzy.
Yesterday, George ‘El Guapo’ Roush from LatinoReview.com posted a fan’s response to Universal’s latest werewolf flick, The Wolfman – a remake of the 1941 classic. (Read Techland’s review of the reboot here.) In a typo-ridden fit of rage, the note’s author lets loose on …
Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010
Today in Techland: Superman is a dick, Lev seeks out the meaning behind Twilight and Peter brings us the news that PS3’s motion controller won’t be here until the fall. Bummer. The good news? Techland launched its very own YouTube page. You should probably subscribe to it.
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John Granger made his bones as a renegade academic writing about Harry Potter. Having exhausted the Rowling canon, he has now turned his formidable critical faculties on the Twilight series. His new book Spotlight: A Close-Up Look at the Artistry and Meaning of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is the result.
The revelations it contains …
130 minutes. That’s the running time of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” And at minute 125, audiences of swooning tweens around the world will let out an audible gasp before erupting into cheers. At least that’s what happened late Wednesday on New York’s Upper West Side, when the very first “New Moon” audience lost its …
Did you sense it – the euphoria of a billion tweens that clogged the tubes of the intrawebs Monday night? As Twitter ground to a halt during the film’s west coast red carpet premiere, it became abundantly clear: “New Moon” is going to be big this weekend. Some are talking $80 million big. Yes, we’re aware.
In fact, we were aware of …
John Granger writes rigorous but accessible literary criticism about Harry Potter. He’s written four books on the subject so far, most recently Harry Potter’s Bookshelf: The Great Books Behind the Hogwarts Adventures, and he blogs at HogwartsProfessor.com. He is, basically, the scholar that I set out to become but never did.
When I …
I grabbed a quick interview with Chris Weitz on Thursday afternoon at Comic-Con. It almost didn’t happen, because I had a signing right before it, which ran over (and which mostly consisted of me watching Jacqueline Carey and Patrick Rothfuss signing books for fangirls anyway. But you know, dedication to the craft and all). Then Weitz …
