The redoubtable Harry Knowles drops the leak-hammer on the upcoming Thor movie. To wit:
This isn’t a Donald Blake, doctor on vacation story. Instead, this is a genuine TALES OF ASGARD story. In the first few pages the creation of everything takes place… the origin of the gods, their universe and how midgard (that’s are [homonyms,
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That about says it all. It’s 70 percent bigger than Jupiter, which makes it the largest planet ever found, but it’s only 3/4 as massive. “That means the alien planet is about as dense as balsa wood or cork, said [Georgi] Mandushev, who is part of a planet-hunting team known as the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey.” It also whips around …
Sorry about the long absence. I was off in a leafy suburb of Seattle. I leave it to your imaginations what I was doing there. Cough, Bungie, cough.
Apparently while I was out there human genetic diversity declined — nice job, guys, thanks for that — Erfworld continued to rock, and a bunch of Star Trek casting got done. Ain’t It Cool …
I hope this doesn’t turn into a monstrous iPhonelike media bubble. Everybody writing about it, myself included, should be forced to take several deep calming breaths before setting fingertip to keyboard. But yeah, Google might possibly be making a phone.
It’s not a wildly radical idea: you picture some kind of low-end version of an …
Well, I missed Comic-Con. And E3. At this exact moment I’m missing QuakeCon in Texas, BlizzCon in Anaheim (featuring actor/comedian Jay Mohr!), and that BlackHat thing in Vegas. I will shortly miss Gen Con and PAX. Seems like you could spend the whole summer jumping seamlessly from Con to Con and never once breathe the air outside a …
Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff (which by the way, where is he now? still jazzy, somewhere?) said it best: movie theater owners just don’t understand. This story (from the Washington Post, spotted via Slashdot) isn’t surprising, just appalling: a 19-year-old woman in a movie theater takes a 20-second clip of Transformers to show her brother …
It sounds like J.J. Abrams may have been out filming his shaky-cam monster movie on the Lower East Side. In case you’ve been enveloped by a moving cloud of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, here’s the poster (swiped from Ain’t It Cool).
I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve been completely seduced by the trailer for this movie, and its …
[Crocostimpy posted this in comments. It feels like it deserves a post of its very own. It’s damn long, but there are some gems in there. Teddy isn’t a Metamorphwerewolf. And re: the person who was supposed to do magic in later life: “I’m sorry about this, but I changed my mind!” Original is here.]
J.K. Rowling: I’m here …
Finished Spook Country, the new William Gibson. I doubt there will ever be a Gibson novel I won’t read, and read with pleasure, but there is, after nine novels, a certain undeniable sameness to his work. Maybe he’s just a victim of his own success — there’s so much faux-Gibson out there that even real-Gibson starts to sound like …
I was dickering around with Ain’t It Cool News’s Comic-Con updates, which contain some tidbits about Joss Whedon — he’s thinking about doing a BBC movie about Rupert Giles from Buffy. And I felt a pang when I realized I hadn’t seen anything by Whedon onscreen since Serenity two years ago.
Anyway, there was a link to an incredibly …
I have almost — but not quite — nothing to blog about today, so I will simply note that I am grooving, really intensely, to “The Mesopotamians,” off “The Else,” the new album by nerd-rock legends They Might Be Giants. There’s an intermittent quality to TMBG’s brilliance, but I don’t think that makes their genius any less genuine.
I’ve …
I wrote a short profile of Neil Gaiman in the print magazine this week. It’s here. For those curious about Gaiman’s presumably-now-lost English school novel, the full quote is as follows (I only had a measly page for this piece):
“Many years ago, when I was 17, I plotted my own story set in an English public school. Most of which I’ve
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