A common reaction to Robin Williams' suicide is surprise, most particularly surprise that he suffered from depression.

That part … did not surprise me at all.

Look at him. Pick any movie, any scene, especially the ones where he's smiling. His smile, more often that not, is almost apologeticThat is the face of a man who is constantly, keenly aware ( Read more... )

(Yeah, I'm posting a lot today. I'm thinky.)

Every few years, I come back to this question; for the first time, though, I've got a different answer.

When they make an animated movie of FurryMUCK / Second Life / The Internet / Your Favorite Tabletop RPG, who should voice your alter-ego?
For years, I wanted Kelsey Grammer for Athelind, but I think ( Read more... )

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It's a song about the loss of innocence... and we've all lost a little today.

Good night, Mary.

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Walter Cronkite, Dead at 92

The man they called The Most Trusted Man in America -- and really, has anyone else come along worthy of the title come along since he retired? -- died today, in the middle of the the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that he covered so memorably.

He was a journalist, by God, and there are damned few of them ( Read more... )

"Billy Jean"? "Thriller"? "Smooth Criminal"?

This is the Michael Jackson that I'd prefer to remember.

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He spent his whole life trying to recapture a childhood lost to celebrity.
I think this is the Michael he'd have preferred to remember, too.

This made me happy.

(...I also really want to play in that game setting.)

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Dreamworks is Really Tyrell Corporation: Kung Fu Panda More China Than China

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Chinese animated films tend to be more educational in nature and heavy with significance, but short on entertaining detail, "Kung Fu Panda" viewers say. Local directors would not have had the imagination to make Po's father a duck. Nor would they dare to portray ( Read more... )