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I’m surprised there hasn’t been more geeking-out around here. Please, don’t feel obliged to limit this to politics.
Now, I don’t have any affection for any of the previous Batman movies (or comics in general), but I’m a little disappointed to learn that Darren Aronofsky is no longer directing the new Batman movie. I thought his [...]

Hope my geek message didn’t come off as negative at all. In fact, Geek is an environment in which I thrive and sadly, also one in which I am much more educated than, say, politics. So, I say Geek On.
I agree that a Dead-End costume treatment would have been great. The neck immobilization comment (which, [...]

Man, that website Matt linked to is for total nerds!
I burned my whole lunch hour there.
One of the rumor articles was that there are plans for a Luke Cage project. I find that fairly surprising.
I was reading Mike’s review of The Punisher and I just want to clear up one thing…am I to understand [...]

First off, Matt, check your e-mail for some essential digital superhero goodness.
Second: T.J. O’Pootertoot and I are largely to blame for the blog’s recent geek direction. I can’t speak for him, but I’m just trying to mix up the commentary a little with cultural and alternate-point-of-view stuff — after a long period of non-participation [...]

I’m starting to feel like perhaps we need a geek side-blog for the Byrons, or perhaps it’s all the same. Anyway, I was interested in what our resident comics-to-film guru M.E. might be thinking about the new Batman film now being shot by Chris Nolan. Today the new look was revealed. Looks like the original [...]

Some jackass just launched a semi-monthly “journalism comic strip” in The Oregonian.
And interviewed Wolfgang Petersen for In Focus.

Occasionally stunning, bloody, and (to be fair to those who will call this unfair) context-free photos from Iraq. Lots of corpse shots. A few are not in any way safe for work.
And another fascinating, bleak collection of images: A young woman named Elena likes (or liked) to ride her motorcycle around the less-irradiated parts of [...]

Yet another reason why I love Kate Winslet. She’s so cool!
For those interested, below in the gossip page we learn that Quentin Tarantino once dated Margaret Cho? Yuck. Can we all take a shower now? And Tom Cruise is making MI3 (yawn to the 10X).
Regarding David Foster Wallace’s new book……what the [...]

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A great article in the New York Times today about the tangeled web the “enlightened” French have weaved when it comes to dealing with Islam.
The problem with the Islam that is spreading in France (and the rest of the world) is that it is rooted in hate. What is a country to do about [...]

Some RADA kid is taking London by storm with his performance of Hamlet. Doesn’t this article just make you want to fly to London to see this performance.

File this one under “Why I love DVDs”:
A friend of mine rented “Goonies” the other day (Blockbuster’s midweek “rent a new release and get a ‘classic’ for free” deal) and I killed some time watching the extras.
Do you recall the classic non-sequitur line, a favorite of The Peabody’s, “And the octopus was very scary!”?
Well, I [...]

PRN, such a big fan, will want to give “American Idol” reject William Hung a call to lecture him about the dangers of post-modernity. Also to warn him that he is one of the agents of the Fourth Turning.

Last night I saw Marsters on Sharon Osborne’s show talking about the conclusion of Angel. He indicated that they (at least the actors) were surprised at the cancellation.
Anyway, He has a band called Ghost and the Robot or something like that and so was also the musical guest. I heard one song which wasn’t bad [...]

I have to second Greg’s suggestion to stick to watching Buffy in continuity, and will add that the vewing of the first Season of Angel is a great compliment to the 4th season of Buffy (some nice crossovers).
I will say, though, that I would be a happier Buffy fan if I had stopped watching after [...]

We’ve talked before about the new and acclaimed documentary “Super Size Me,” about one man’s self-destruction at the hands of a McDonald’s-only diet.
Well, here’s an article about a woman, twice his age, who is doing the same thing, and feeling none of the deleterious side effects chronicled in the above film. Who wants to bet [...]

Eric’s enthusiam for, and resulting embarassment over, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer tv series is an all-too-familiar sensation in these quarters. It was our Matt who got me hooked about a year and half ago, which led to my proselytizing to Scott and Eric.
As for the future of the Buffy franchise, there is a groundswell [...]

God, I always hated this guy in college.
As a semi-rabid David Foster Wallace fan, I rushed out to pick up his latest nonfiction book, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. The book turned out to be a technical rather than philosophical essay, trafficking largely in abstract math proofs. (Literally. There are many pages [...]

My friends and fellow Buffy-philes,
I am now a few episodes into season 4. I have jumped ahead a bit, though, so I have already seen what must be one the best episodes of a TV show ever: Hush.
I was speechless when this episode was over (and so I love that last scene with Buffy and [...]

From McSweeney’s, which I hadn’t read in a while: Saddam Hussein’s interrogation logs.
Air America’s got a GREAT ASS, and the Chicago Tribune’s business reporters are ALL THE WAY UP IT! In the latest Tribune report, we find execs are already leaving the network in its first month.
The New York Observer weighs in on the apparently [...]