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First Glimpse of Gibson’s next flick
Entertainment Tonight snagged an early glimpse of Apocalypto (directed by Mel Gibson). It’s a brief clip, with a rapid-fire mess of images (why is that suddenly so headache-inducingly popular?). This is the movie about the fall of the Mayan empire which will be entirely in the Mayan language. Hat tip to Libertas.
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A King Kong-sized boner!
Opening a three hour movie on a Wednesday night that wasn’t a holiday appears to have been a serious boner (you know, like a mixup or a SNAFU) for Universal. Honestly, I had no idea this was opening on a Wednesday. Did you? How long ago did you know? In all the advertising for this…
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Drop leaflets before you bomb
Daily Box Office – Wednesday, December 14, 2005 shows a pretty poor showing for King Kong. Drudge Report is already hyping that it may be a bomb. Frankly, I run a geek news blog and I didn’t know until two days ago that it was opening on a Wednesday. Maybe that’s the problem? I bet…
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Maybe Scott Adams isn’t so smart?
Scott Adams recounts on The Dilbert Blog: How to be a Marketing Genius how he offered a free downloadable version of his first book, “God’s Debris” to see if it would help in the sales of his second book, and then concludes from the pathetic version of free downloads (170,000 + who knows how many…
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Agony Booth posts new review
Hudson Hawk gets its wings clipped by an Agony Booth Mega Review. I wish their site could post new reviews more often. This one’s hilarious just for the many pictures of Bruce Willis mugging for the camera. I never watched Hudson Hawk; the trailer, in which Bruce tried very hard to be funny as he’s…
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Overjoyed and over-Jonahed
What a great King of Days it has been for me. (King of Days, to the uninitiated, is Wednesday when the new comics arrive.) I’ve got several reasons to be happy. First off: Teen Titans #30 has me in 1980s La-La-Land, with the first real Captain Carrot story since 1986’s Oz-Wonderland War, PLUS the first…
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Hey Froggy Babyyyyyyy!
Sesame Street is being adapted for French TV but without Kermit the Frog, who might offend some sensibilities (and lead to far too many “tastes like chicken” jokes, perhaps). Elmo, in fact, will be the only familiar face (that is, if you grew up with Elmo; he’s after my time, as is the Public Knowledge…
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The book I always recommend
Every time someone posts a thread asking what people are currently reading or what they recommend, I am sure to mention PS 238 (PS being “public school”; many elementary schools use a numbering system instead of naming the school). Aaron Williams’ PS 238 is a terrific book and I probably wouldn’t even be getting it…
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Marvel quietly debuts new digital comics
Marvel.com’s “dotcomics” have returned according to this Newsarama article.
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A little selfish use of the blog, sorry
I’m just compiling a list of links to reviews of Job Wanted and my other works. I need to keep them in one place and a Monitor Duty post is as easy as anything else. Job Wanted reviewed by Glenn Carter at Silver Bullet. And Silver Bullet reviewed our Time Meddlers story in SSCA #4.…