I blog today through a feverish haze, which is appropriate given the hallucinatory subject matter. In my debilitated state I’m just going to summarize comments on yesterday’s post, which make clear my numerous personal and nerdly shortcomings.
— Several readers brought up large organic space vessels from Babylon 5 and Star Trek as …
Falling asleep last night, feeling replete and self-satisfied from an evening spent not-watching the Oscars — yeah, I’m just a rebel that way — I played a thought-game: What are the ten physically largest living beings in all of science fiction? Here’s my list, biggest to smallest, generated — I might add, in my defense — without …
For the last few weeks I’ve been working on a piece about Zack Snyder’s remarkable 300, a CGI-heavy adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel. His next project after that is Watchmen. I had kind of assumed, after the Gilliam version died, that all future Watchmen projects were snares and delusions, but Snyder’s appears to be actually …
I realize that Google launched a war with Microsoft today, and Apple and iPhone settled their trademark dispute, but as my 2-year-old daughter says: “guys, we have to focus.” A bunch of New Zealand fishermen have landed a colossal squid in Antarctica.
Lately I’ve been watching a feature-length fan-made Star Trek parody called Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. There are dark abysms of Trek fandom that kinda scare me, but you know what? This is really very, very watchable. It was done by a small (but apparently very scrappy) group of Finnish guys, amateurs, who spent 7 years on the …
The Keymaster and the Gatekeeper will be meeting face to face at a conference in May for an unscripted chat. Thus begins the rule of Gozer. Actually, it should be pretty interesting — maybe they’ll settle that whole teachers’ unions issue once and for all.
In other news, the people at Inkling magazine — possibly being even more …
There’s a third trailer out for The Simpsons Movie, which shows every sign of being the longest, widest Simpsons episode ever. This is the first trailer that gives a sense of the tone and scope of the movie, which is basically no different from the TV version, though I assume somebody somewhere will swear to prove it really is a movie, a …
I just had to say that, and now I’ve said it, and we can all move on.
Barenaked Ladies have released a video featuring a pretty impressive all-star cast of YouTube celebrities. Brookers and Geriatric1927, together at last! (Am I the last person on the Net to find out that Geriatric1927’s real name is Peter Oakley? When did that come …
This post will strain my primitive HTML skills to the very breaking point.
1. This is the new universal symbol of radiation, generated by the best creative minds at the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Organization for Standardization. So it’s very, very international. Note the strangely happy, toothless skull …
I’m a late convert to PvP, which has been online since, god, like 1998 or something. I’ve always been a big Penny Arcade fan, and Tycho made fun of PvP in his newsposts, and I just never got around to reading it. Then I realized that they’re all pals, and Tycho was just taking the piss, and that PvP is actually funny.
PvP is set at a …
Featuring two movies I’m definitely going to see five years from now when they’re being rerun on basic cable for the 90th time.
— Ghost Rider, starring Nicolas “I Probably Could Have Been Iron Man” Cage as a dude who turns into a dude with a burning skull for a head, who rides a motorcycle, which is also burning. It’s currently …
This rant at Gizmodo is right about gadget-bloggers, and technology journalism in general. It’s also pretty amusing.
