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The Marxist Gorilla

US Military Losses This Year

Look at the ages. 19. 20. 22. 25. 34. 28. 19. Today a female suicide bomber killed 40 or so people. It is an unwanted occupation. We will win when our men and women come home. 20-June1One Soldier was killed and five wounded in three roadside bomb attacks on Coalition force patrols in Diyala province...

Eep²

Android Meme's Xenochrony (Bob Dobbs diary)

(Note: see Wikisource my wiki for a more complete version with more links.) ANDROID MEME'S XENOCHRONY Bob Dobbs (1922-) Diary (1935-1998) (chronological order; original version) ____ 1935 April 22/35 (Paris) "Crowds are all that's left," James Joyce muttered to Eugene Jolas. As Bob Dobbs walked into...

HIPHOP PHENOM BillyTruong

More about Billy Truong and his influences

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...

WebMaster

Wall-E Bad for the Planet, Lucas Wants 3rd Internet, Oldman CG'd To Tiny Tim...

Hobbit Director Tries Commuting (stuff.co.nz) It will be a case of There and Back Again for Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro, who plans to commute every two weeks between New Zealand and Los Angeles. The Mexican director, best known for Hellboy and the Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth, is working...

Keith Russell

Handicapping the NHL awards

The NHL announced the finalists for their annual awards today. Some usual suspects, some new faces, and a first-ever tie in the nomination voting. First, for the statistical awards: Art Ross (total points): Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh (120 points) "Rocket" Richard (goals): Vincent LeCavalier, Tampa...

Aric West

Batman versus He-Man

There are many questions that plague the social literary circles and critics world wide, but none more than the rather complex and socially challenging question; “Who would win in a fight, Batman or He-Man?” At first glance, this question may appear as a simple one but in truth, it is a complex...

WebMaster

Clash of the Titans Go Greenscreen, Creepiest CG Human Yet, & Captain Leo...

Louis Leterrier Directing Clash of the Titans (Variety.com) Yesterday, we mentioned that Tarsem Singh had signed on to direct the Greek film War of Gods. Now, Variety says that Warner Bros. has signed The Incredible Hulk director Louis Leterrier to helm its Lawrence Kasdan-scripted remake of Clash...

Manuki

Comicon!

So, I went to the Emerald City Comicon this weekend. I always go to the comicon, but this time was different. This time I was attending as an aspiring comic-book writer. But, I'll get back to that later. Since I was a kid I have had an on-again/off-again relationship with comic books. I religiously...

Dinosaur

Self Control only works in Theory

You may wonder like I do why I only capitalized certain words. Well I could analyze and break it down but A.A. Milne never had to explain when he did it so neither will I. If you didn't read Winnie the Pooh as a child that might have looked like a quasi-intellectual literary reference but sadly I...

smaru

Disney Films That Aren't (Part One)...

Sometimes when my friends and I go to the movies as the credits start to roll and we begin talking about what we liked and didn't like about a film, I also tend to have in the back of my head... "This coulda' been a Disney film." What do I mean by that? Well, usually it comes up when I've seen a...

smaru

Under The Influence...

For those that don't remember, Walt began Disneyland as a private project. It wasn't as much a product of Walt Disney Productions as it was a product of Walt. He funded a majority of it by borrowing against his home and funding from the ABC network mainly. He risked his fame, his fortune and that of...

smaru

Bird has the last word

From today's New York Times: "It’s Not a Sequel, but It Might Seem Like One After the Ads" By Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES, April 23 — If the Walt Disney Company and its Pixar Animation Studios unit have their way, by the time “Ratatouille” is released on June 29, millions will have learned...

Pandora

Not a dress rehearsal

Every now and then I forget that my life is happening. I forget that this isn't a dream, a holding pattern. This...this moment, this day, this hug, this experience, this is my life. This is happening right now. This is it. The other night I was reading K a bedtime story (Harold and the Purple...

William Gatevackes

I Rant about the DC & Marvel August solicitations.

I'm going to start with Marvel, because I want to. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #1 Written by MARC DEMATTEIS & TOM DEFALCO Penciled by ALEX CAl & RON FRENZ Cover by ADI GRANOV Heads' up, Web-Slingers! Not getting nearly enough bang for your Brand New Buck with Thrice Monthly Spider-Man? Well, get ready...

Bayu Indrawan

"300" Keberanian dan Kebenaran Mengalahkan Segalanya!!!

Apa jadinya jika 300 tentara melawan ribuan tentara? Pastinya yang jumlahnya ratusan bakal hancur berkeping-keping. Bagi para prajurit Sparta tidak ada kata menyerah sebelum bertarung. Dengan jumlah yang tak sebanding mereka mampu mengalahkan ribuan tentara Persia. Film "300" diangkat dari novel...

batmite1

Comming Soon To DVD...

I'm a bit of a DVD nut, yet I haven't done any DVD news before, so I thought I would start with some titles that I found interesting. For those of us who did not (foolishly) buy the first version of the Region 1 Serenity DVD, Universal has a Collector's Edition of the movie coming out on August...

LaRae Meadows

300 Review Man vs Woman

Kevin, another JPP reviewer has graciously completed a review for 300. That's right, you get two for the price of one. Yes, he is a better writer than me! Kevin Review: I’m not really the kind of guy to come out of a movie and love it for the fight scenes, but the film 300 left me loving nearly...

janicu

The Touch of Twilight by Vicki Pettersson

I barely made it in time for this book to come out! The Touch of Twilight should be in bookstores tomorrow - May 27th. This is the third book in the Sign of the Zodiac series and I got an ARC from Eos books for promising to review it. My Vicki Petterson reviews: Book 1 - The Scent of Shadows Book 2...

smaru

Forgotten Mouse Tales 7...

And now it's time for another look down memory lane to the projects the Mouse had planned on making into films but got too scared to actually go through with it. This being October and Halloween coming up, I guess this will be an appropriate start... Bell, Book and Candle A comedy written by Andrew...

smaru

Scrambled Ink book-coming in summer '08

Dave Pimentel and JJ Villard after our group trek to the Comic Con last summer.You couldn't find a better bunch of traveling companions. An early rough splash page we put together for the book--this isn't the design, nothing here is final(especially color)-very, very early; this version also doesn't...