This is the transcript of a conversation that Alan Kistler and I had today via AOL Instant Messenger: [10:03] fanzinger: Oh, and reading your piece makes me aware of the real need for another continuity mess article. [10:03] fanzinger: Supergirl. [10:03] Alan Kistler: LOL [10:03] fanzinger: You’ve got Matrix. [10:03] fanzinger: You’ve got Kara in…
Reminder and Hype
Lost. Premieres tonight. Nuff said.
Watched “My Name is Earl” last night
My wife asks, “How many weeks before the NBC announcer just calls it ‘Earl’?” I say three. Good show. Starring Jason Lee, it’s done on location without a laughtrack. The premise is that a total reprobate redneck loses his winning lottery ticket and realizes that his karma is screwed up. (He thinks Carson Daly invented…
New Forum
I’ve set up a new forum for our site. I just renewed the old one for another three months on Sunday; it couldn’t be avoided. I will have the site configured shortly. Should I import all of the threads from our old EZBoard forum or should we just start anew? Is any of this conversation…
Real-life crimefighter passes away
Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Dead at 96 Simon Wiesenthal…who helped find one-time SS leader Adolf Eichmann and the policeman who arrested Anne Frank, died in his sleep at his home in Vienna… A survivor of five Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal changed his life’s mission after the war, dedicating himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals…
New movie adaptation coming soon
A History of Violence is an adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke. From the movie site you can even download the first installment of the story in PDF format, though it may “spoil” the movie for you. It looks like DC is going to re-release the graphic novel with a…
JLU and Teen Titans premieres
Justice League Unlimited debuted this weekend. Oh, don’t bother going to that link. For some reason, Cartoon Network has kept the JLU site woefully un-updated. You wouldn’t know the show’s new season started if you relied on their site to tell you. The big news is that, like Superfriends before them, they will spend the…
You can’t get good help these days
Woman complains to cops after hitman she hired fails to get the job done
Robert Wise, R.I.P.
Robert Wise, the director of 40 movies including The Sound of Music, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Haunting, The Andromeda Strain, Run Silent Run Deep and The Day the Earth Stood Still has passed away at the age of 91. Hat tip to Libertas.
JLU premier this weekend!
Don’t Forget!