So I got this email from a vendor that I have done business with, advertising a huge font package for a low price, and I open the email and take a look because I am a typeface junkie. (NOTE: junkie, not nerd. This means that I don't actually know all the history or proper and improper usages and all that stuff that the typeface nerds know -- which ( Read more... )

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media relations / fear of an ... archie comics book? really? REALLY? / 2012 february 29
Yes, REALLY ( Read more... )

Media Relations / 24 january 2012 / oscar, oscar, oscar! nominations and predictions, 2012
The thing I like about this year's nomination is that every single major category contains at least one "WTF?" moment. For all the predictability of the Academy Awards, you don't get that quite this consistently in the nominations process ( Read more... )

This may wind up being double posted, as the importer from Dreamwidth appears to be having Issues again.

media relations / 12 January 2012 / and the first shoe finally drops

DC COMICS IN 2012 - INTRODUCING THE “SECOND WAVE” OF DC COMICS-THE NEW 52Thursday, January 12th, 2012 ( Read more... )

media relations / april 14, 2011 / as the soap settles
[...] Have to admit, the cancellation of All My Children (AMC) makes me sort of sad, even though I haven't watched AMC regularly in eons. I can remember, way way way way back in the mists of prehistory, when I was a young'un, watching the early episodes of All My Children while my great ( Read more... )

Media Relations / February 7, 2011 / da code: a quick take review

So I'm watching The Chicago Code. And the first episode is rather overloaded, to put it mildly. It's really fascinating to see the stuff it gets right and the stuff it gets wrong, and how it finesses the stuff it gets wrong when it can ( Read more... )

Media Relations / February 6, 2011 / Red
So I finally got around to watching Red, the Bruce Willis movie theoretically made from the comic book by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer. And I will tell you right now that the only surviving part of the comic is the "retired agent yanked out of retirement because people are trying to kill him" part of the ( Read more... )

Media Relations / September 20, 2010 / new fall tv 2010: book 'em, dano

All I can say is, it's clearly not quite where they meant to go, but the new Hawaii Five-0 is good stupid ultraviolent gruesome fun ... except when it's deliberately utterly appalling, of course....

Questions? Comments? Cigars, cigarettes, Cigarillos? -- Originally posted ( Read more... )

Media Relations / September 7, 2010 / Oh, Danimal...
I really have no words. Just follow the bouncing controversy, shall we? Let's shall. [...] No, no, wait, it gets better: [...] Wait, it gets even better (for certain values of "better" defined as "Dan Hampton loves the taste of his own foot"): [...] But it turns out that his foot was, as it were ( Read more... )

media relations: red hood done right / August 8, 2010

In which DC Animated takes on the origin story of Jason Todd as the Red Hood and makes it make sense.To be sure, the DC Animated people had both a signal advantage and disadvantage. Feeling that Jason Todd had been rather badly treated (a vote to kill him off, for heaven's sake, and one that ( Read more... )