Here is Alan Moore's piece on the Iraq war, complete, uncut, and referenced in the previous post. Here's a joke: What do you call an eight-year-old Iraqi kid with no arms, surviving family members, or unblackened skin below his waist? I don't know. I was shouting at the TV and I didn' t catch his...
Signal Oil and Gas Many analysts have long questioned whether high oil prices could be sustained; many blame speculative investing fueled by the falling dollar for a near doubling of crude prices over the past year.In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures were flat at $3.6396 a gallon while...
CGI Superpowers Save Hollywood (telegraph.co.uk) They are here to save the world – and Hollywood. Films based on comic books have become the movie industry's "safety net", with the major studios increasingly looking to the heroes and villains of hand-drawn strips to provide box office hits. Batman...
Who or what are your musical influences? 10000 Maniacs 10cc 112 12 Rounds 16 Horsepower 1927 2 Pistols 2 Unlimited 24 Gone 2gether 2pac 3 Colours Red 3 Doors Down 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts 30 Seconds to Mars 311 38 Special 3gs 3lw 3rd Faze 3t 4 Non Blondes 4hero 4him 50 Cent 54 40 54 Seconds 59 Times...
"G.I. Joe" Tops "Transformers" Weaponry Budget (io9.com) Ignore all those robots in disguise already; 2009 will be the year of GI Joe, thanks to the Resolute cartoon and upcoming movie. And at the GI Joe panel Thursday morning, Hasbro executives and the creators of both projects explained just why...
"Indiana Jones" Hits $311 Million Worldwide LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" chased down $311.1 million from moviegoers around the world, as nostalgic fans brought along their children to watch Harrison Ford's latest escapades, distributor Paramount...
"Indiana Jones" Fans Tough Crowd For Effects Crew (Hollywood Reporter) - Indiana Jones' return to the big screen after 19 years underscores how much visual effects have evolved. When the first three Indy films were made in the 1980s, the visual effects were done optically, i.e. photographically or...
I'm back in the ring to take another swing. Starting with Marvel: THE DARK TOWER: THE LONG ROAD HOME #3 (of 5) Written by PETER DAVID & ROBIN FURTH Pencils & Cover by JAE LEE & RICHARD ISANOVE Variant Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC Variant Sketch Cover by JAE LEE With Roland’s consciousness trapped...
Regular Wednesday post: This one focuses on changing the comic book industry. I don't claim to know a lot about the industry, so this is just my wish list of things. 1. Focus on graphic novels, not comic books If the comics industry wants to grow up, why not make books instead of comics. Give the...
This is the Entertainment Weekly Top 100 books from 1983 to the present. Despite its source, I find it to be pretty interesting. Since I love books and most of you love books, I thought I'd share it. Red ones are ones I've read. 1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006) 2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of...
Fox Sues Warners Over "Watchmen" (darkhorizons.com) 20th Century Fox has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Pictures claiming it holds the exclusive copyrights and contract rights to Alan Moore's graphic novel "Watchmen". Warners has been in production on the film version of the acclaimed book for...
Over here, Valerie D'Orazio claims that minority characters who are derived from earlier white, heterosexual, male characters are less likely to be interesting because the new minority characters aren’t “cast in their own image.” I don’t see how being derivative is in any real way a...
Anon in this post said essentially that straight guys will tend to think of Wonder Woman sexually because she is dressed in what amounts lingerie. Nenena responded that she didn’t think Anon was making distinction between “fetish lingerie and Wonder Woman's iconic outfit.” While I would point...
July 10, 2008 LuLu LuLu, our cat, survived our trip to Canada. We have a nice young man from the neighborhood look in on her daily, so she does not feel abandoned. However, she managed to conger up a small hairball while I was watching. Taking Care of Yourself Although, we spent the week in Canada...
I was recently stunned into submission when I noticed that there is a new movie version of one of my favorite books of all time, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which opens April 29. Having long since lost/lent/sold/given away/trashed/consigned to a life of slavery on Arcturus Boolgeeian VII...
It's been 19 days since I' ve arrived and 11 since I've posted anything. I'd like to say that I was too busy to write anything, but let's be honest... I was the opposite of busy. Perhaps that's why nothing was said, because really I felt like there was nothing new to say. But now I guess there is. I...
Couple things: I am doing something akin to writing again. Even if the main metaphor in what I am writing is inspired weirdly by Gogo vs. The Bride, which makes me think I have lost my mind altogether and not just my skillz. CAN WE TALK WATCHMEN? I finished rereading it and it just made me...
I quoted a six-word short story by Alan Moore in the prvious post. Who is Alan Moore? In my humble opinion Alan Moore and David Simon are currently the two greatest living authors on this planet. Here is a great interview with David Simon, including this quote: "There's two little pieces of the...
Alan Greenspan has again exposed himself as a traitor working against the interests of the American people by urging Gulf states to abandon the dollar peg, a move that could result in financial chaos and an economic depression in America. Who will end the US Empire and its neocon crazies before they...
Let me make one definitive statement before I continue: I do not consider myself an expert in remotely anything. There is not one subject that I can categorically state that I am all knowledgeable in. I have my interests, sure. Although my grounding in each of these would fall considerably short...
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