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Remember to vote today
Cox & Forkum: Ballot Boxing has an update on the Weblog Awards. Remember, you can vote once a day for multiple days in a row to help your candidate win. (See Chicago voting systems) Oh, and Day by Day is in Wikipedia. I’m jealous. Fanzing is used as a reference link all over Wikipedia, but…
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Upcoming movies from Walden Media
Two weeks ago on the Dixonverse message board, we started talking about children’s books we’d enjoyed and wished they’d adapt into movies. Someone mentioned the book “How to Eat Fried Worms”; I remember reading that one as a kid. Turns out Walden Media, the family entertainment company that is producing Narnia Chronicles, has “Fried Worms”…
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DC Comics releases for March (One Year Later)
Comics Continuum has posted the DC releases and covers for March, which is the start of One Year Later. What does this mean to you? It means SPOILERS, lots and lots of SPOILERS, so I’m putting it in the extended entry. Those of you who’d like to avoid spoilers can instead look at the cool…
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Space hoax reality show now underway
Space Cadets ‘lift off’ I wrote before about this reality show in “‘allo! Wot’s all this gravity then?”
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Day by Day up for 2005 Weblog Awards!
Chris Muir’s “Day by Day” and Cox & Forkum are in a quite friendly competition to see who gets more votes in The 2005 Weblog Award for Best Humor/Comics Blog. What’s great is the way they are so nice about it. Cox and Forkum did this cartoon on December 9th. Then Chris Muir gets back…
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Cause of death: Lingering embarrassment over Superman III
Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65. Here is his filmography. (No complaints about my subject line, please, as I rejected my first one: “Pryor’s Place moves six feet under.”)
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King Kong has biggie budget and smaller director
– ‘King Kong’ sixth most expensive Hollywood film. This is fascinating, but Peter Jackson’s weight loss is even more impressive. Check out that picture! Someone’s been staying away from the craft services table.
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Always get a film permit
There’s nothing worse than getting shot by police who think you’re really in a brutal fight when you’re filming your superhero movie in a giant banana costume.
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Kurt Busiek to write new direction for Aquaman
Aquaman becomes “Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis” with new team of Kurt Busiek and artist Butch Guice. The new title signifies the sword and sorcery direction of the book. Oh, and Arthur “Orin” Curry is not Aquaman.
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New Blue Beetle costume
Newsarama has an interview with Cully Hamner which shows the new Blue Beetle costume. I will reserve comment, but you all go ahead and say what you think.