According to the humor publication The Onion, A Woman At A Farscape Convention Now Has A Dangerously Inflated Self-Image. Yet again, the Onion shows a dangerous understanding of geekdom. You have to have attended a convention once to write something like this. And it IS too true. If you’ve been to at least one convention,…
Win a Great Escape Special Edition DVD!
DVDTalk has good giveaway contests, and this time they’re giving away The Great Escape.
Slow Glass follow-up
I wrote recently about the “Slow Glass” short story. Bill Forsyth e-mails me with more information about it: I thought I was the only one who was familiar with “slow glass.” Are you aware that Shaw also wrote a full novel about “Slow Glass”? I think it was titled “Other Days, Other Eyes”…He really did…
Identity Crisis detective work, part 2: Meltzer weighs in
A few weeks ago I started doing some detective work as to who will die in “Identity Crisis.” Newsarama gives us the Identity Crisis Death Pool and writer Brad Meltzer gives his opinion for each one. However, not only does the article skip over several of the possibilities that I came up with (Sue Dibny…
Spock searches for God (again?)
Mr. Spock has apparently been inspired by his half-brother Sybok, as he’s now looking for God.
Nooooooooooooooo! Not again!?!
Variant Covers–Are They Back?
Say it’s not so!
GASP! It can’t be true that Michael Moore is generating a false controversy in order to get publicity! There have been screaming headlines of late that Moore’s new anti-Bush movie, timed to come out right before the election, won’t be released by Disney because they’re censoring him. Of course, they said that they wouldn’t distribute…
New Harvey Birdman preview
Tonight’s Harvey Birdman on Cartoon Network, “SPF”, is new. Birdman gets his power from the sun, but his dermatologist tells him to avoid exposure. Now he’s addicted to a self-tanning cream. See a clip. Next week’s episode should feature the Jetsons who come back in time to sue everyone for melting the polar icecaps (that’s…
Seinfeld-Superman special!
TV Guide Online reports: FRIEND IN NEED: With Friends now history, NBC is looking to another Must-See legend to re-energize its Thursday night lineup. According to Variety, on May 20 — the final Thursday of May sweeps — the network will air The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman, a special based on Jerry Seinfeld’s current…
Is this a movie review?
I’m anxious to see the movie Super-Size Me, about a guy who ate at McDonald’s three times a day for a month and put his body through hell doing so. As someone who rarely eats at fast food restaurants (that means once or twice a month, and then usually only because I must), I don’t…