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Is that what this blog has become? Is it? Is it?

Starring Harrison Ford and a huge lens flare. Lucas seems to be spending a lot of time on-set. No-prize to whoever can tell me what t-shirt he’s wearing? Maybe it belongs on the list.

Here it is, straight from E3:

For an additional, very strange, experience, go to Bungie’s E3 page, scroll down, and click on one of the Halo: Arms Race links. You’ll get what appears to be a live-action Halo test short, sort of a preparatory sketch for the (currently sidelined) Halo movie, which Microsoft apparently showed at E3. …

Sorry for the hiatus. The PS3 is cheaper now. OK, new business.

Last month I plugged this book gonzo-style, without actually having read it. Now I’ve read Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us, and it turns out that in my total ignorance, I was right: I don’t think I’ve read a better non-fiction book this year. (Fiction honors so far this …

Until then, may the octosquid watch over you. (Warning: saving throw vs. madness required.)

This mysterious trailer has been running in theaters before Transformers:

Sorry for embedding a grainy shaky-cam clip of what is already a grainy shaky-cam movie. This is apparently a “secret” project being produced by J.J. Abrams, where “secret” is marketing-speak for “not secret,” and slated for a January release. What we’re …

I tried and I tried to transfer a part of my soul into it. Just couldn’t figure out where to stick the USB cable. May have to wait for Pogue’s Missing Manual for that.

Full review is here.

I’m off to get an iPhone. If I don’t come back, look for the Dark Mark over the midtown Apple store.

It’s here:

My angry, blackened nerd heart does so hate to be warmed. Didn’t I just say something about those damn celestas? Still, it’s a good cast, and somebody appears to have checked the “acting” box in Natalie Portman’s preferences.

This blog is not turning into a Harry Potter blog. I have a rich fulfilling life outside of Harry Potter. I do and say and think lots and lots of exciting things that have almost no connection to Harry Potter whatsoever.

That said, here’s a link to my piece in Time this week, which is all about Harry Potter.

Because J.K. Rowling …

Just back from a screening of Order of the Phoenix. I think I’m probably not supposed to say too too much about this. There’s a lot out there already anyway. But I will say this: it’s quite good.

As much as I like the books, I haven’t really ever been totally sold on Potter as a movie franchise. Maybe it’s because of the revolving …

This post began life as a top-10 list of the finest in nerdwear. Nerds are, of course, a t-shirt-loving people, and the richness and diversity of their t-shirt culture is a beacon for all of mankind. After weeks of sifting through possibilities — yes, I actually devoted a lot of time to this — and a whole lot of jokes about rogues, I …