“Ankles” being Variety slang for “bails.” According to Whedonesque, and subsequently every entertainment trade outlet in the ‘verse, Joss Whedon is off the Wonder Woman project. Let’s see, how much can I legally quote?
Let me stress first that everybody at the studio and Silver Pictures were cool and professional. We just saw different
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Is it just me or is there a serious lack of non-Super Bowl counter-programming? I know there are a lot of people out there who are really excited about the bone-crunching matchup of [plural noun, animal] vs. [plural noun, animal], but honestly, I just couldn’t care less. (Jock-on-jock violence? Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown)
So …
I’ve refrained from commenting on the whole Mooninite invasion of Boston, the city that I am, I’m embarrassed to say, from. It’s been admirably covered and commented upon elsewhere, notably by my colleague Jim Poniewozik on his blog. The whole incident kind of reminds us of the hermetic nature of nerd culture — the fact that Aqua Teen …
Isn’t it cute when famous people try to play video games? Warning: too-short tennis outfit alert.
This really is pretty cool: Kratos vs. Giant Gold Guy With Blue Glowy Eyes. Especially given that it’s on PS2. Pulse-pounding previous-gen action! Some further notes on the battle here.
Props to Kotaku. Now they can get back to posting pix of cakes baked in the shape of Zelda characters. Oh snap!
The press release from Scholastic apparated (unsplinched) in my inbox this morning at 7:00 precisely: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on July 21 of this year. There’s a good summary of what’s known about the book, and the outstanding plotlines left to be resolved, in Wikipedia.
I figured as much. She’s always …
There was a time when I felt that I wasn’t nerd enough to read The Order of the Stick. It’s a webcomic about a party of adventurers in a fantasy role playing game. There are a lot of in jokes about 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. I mean, I barely made it to 2nd Edition.
But it’s actually funny anyway. The characters are profiled here, …
And went to this commercial shoot that her friend’s dad was doing for Apple, now she’s sort of famous. Meet switcherette Ellen Feiss all over again. (Attorney’s note: Feiss was definitely not high for that shoot. No way.)
In other Apple news, whoever writes the genuinely funny blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is claiming that legal …
The finalists for this years Independent Games Festival are up. Usually I just ignore this kind of thing, because I’m a lazy bastard and consume whatever corporate America shoves down my limp, lifeless esophagus.
But for some reason I clicked on a free Flash game called Samorost 2. Wow. It’s incredibly atmospheric and beautiful and charming.
It’s very hard for me to explain why it’s so urgently important for me to blog about this. Short, telegraph version: Peep Show, British sitcom, insanely vicious and funny. Steve Jobs, hires two Peep Show stars, to be Mac and PC in UK Apple ads…maybe that wasn’t so complicated.
If you’ve never seen Peep Show, it’s about two guys, a …
In an oddly ultra-soft launch, Amazon appears to have silently begotten a wiki entirely devoted to product reviews entitled Amapedia. This seems to me like a basically good (or at least non-evil, in the Googlian sense) idea. I just wonder a) how they’re going to keep corporations from exploiting it with fake reviews (though I suppose …
I don’t know what you were doing this weekend, but most of the billionaires I know were in Davos for the World Economic Forum. It was a pretty quiet Davos this year, as evidenced by the fact that it was pretty big news when Chad Hurley mentioned that YouTube might start sharing ad revenue with content creators.
There’s been some …
