For my gun buddies, a review of Zombieland.

The movie G.I. Joe is being widely trashed, but someone at Newsweek used the premiere as a hook for this thoughtful article, What If G.I. Joe Were Gay?

PS: I was disappointed so few people saw my post about Wyeth Labs successfully placing 26 fraudulent articles about its menopause treatments in ( Read more... )

Taking the fursuit a whole lot further: Horse Puppets on British Stage.

On the bare black stage of the New London Theater, a seven-foot-tall horse breaks into a gallop, round and round, until he pauses for a breath, his flanks heaving lightly. A human approaches; the horse, Topthorn, lifts his head, flexes his ears and shakes his tail. His right ( Read more... )

Shi Pei Pu, the person whose life was the basis of M.Butterfly, has died at the age of 70 in Paris... ( Full news coverage behind the cut. )

For ashark2th via malnpudl whom I saw over at this thought-provoking thread over at tx-cronopio's LJ:

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Jehannamama posted a pointer to WordWeaverLynn's excellent Harvey Milk post today, which is his birthday. Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the day the manslaughter verdict came down ( Read more... )

I'm behind - here's an October 2008 announcement that Joe Haldeman's The Forever War will be made into a movie. I read it about 25 years ago and remember being massively frustrated by the time travel. I do poorly with time travel stories ( Read more... )

For fans of David Boreanz of Buffy fame, a 2007 review of a film I haven't seen but which seems significantly different from his, uh, body of work:( Excerpt of review behind the cut... )

Well, these suck.

They look neither like hamsters nor like zombies.

Any idea on how best to convey in a 100x100 pixel square the concept of a zombie hamster? Or a zombie-fighting hamster?

Late edit -- Dizietsma suggested this as a potential source - don't miss the sound of tiny feet!

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REVIEW: 'Short but amusing micro budget horror, when a ( Read more... )

Nice clip on the Prop H8 skit with Jack Black as Jesus.

kuddlkat posted it first. Sharper than YouTube by far, but has two annoying ads down in the chyron space.

Ah, I have a fan-girl crush on Alison Janney! I miss her! I miss The West Wing!


See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

I don't blame him a bit.

Mr. Newman, who was 83 when he died on Sept. 27 at his home in Westport after a battle with cancer, seemed aware during the will’s drafting that he was among those celebrities the public may be unwilling to relinquish, and that someone in the future might try to manipulate images of him to create performances that had ( Read more... )