Donald Duck, Donald Duck
He doesn't waddle, he doesn't cluck
Blows his stack, any day
Has webbed feet, they all say
Look out, there goes the Donald Duck

So between this and Squeenix buying Eidos, does this mean the next Kingdom Hearts will have both Lara Croft and Spidey?

Okay, I was never exactly a fan of Michael Jackson - though to this day, I think the old Jackson 5 records were some of the best teenybopper pop ever recorded. And I think his personal life was, to put it charitably, highly questionable. But you can't deny the massive impact he had on the worlds of music and music video - the long-form "Thriller" ( Read more... )

Yes, I know it's been forever since I posted in this thing. Here's what I've been up to as of late ( Read more... )

So the hysteria over the swine flu is threatening to kick an already-hurting travel industry in the butt. Since I worked for a travel agent publication for so long. I still keep an eye on these things, and I winced at Joe Biden's statement that people shouldn't take airplanes (they later backpedaled and said he was talking specifically about Mexico ( Read more... )

New York Sun publishes final issue tomorrowThe Sun was never one of the major players among New York papers - it didn't have the prestige of the Times or the portability-on-the-bus of the Daily News or the Post - but it had a devoted cult audience, and its passing means yet another clatch of NYC-area journalists will be looking for work ( Read more... )

Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright diesI've been a fan of Pink Floyd all my life (and never got to see them in concert), so this is sad news. Wright wrote some of their best early compositions -- his song "Summer 68" is the only part of Atom Heart Mother that I have on my iPod ( Read more... )

MSNBC writes about the influence of the sexy side of anime culture on AmericaThe piece talks about Hello Kitty vibrators and Pokemon doujinshi. No mention of yaoi, and, thank God, no attempt to portray American otaku as being the same as "traditional" Japanese otaku -- the article acknowledges that American fans do, indeed, date and sleep with each ( Read more... )

An erotic-themed convention has been forced to move its base of operations from the Meadowlands Exposition Center -- yes, the place where AnimeNEXT was held this year -- to the Raritan Center in Edison, NJ. Officials in Secaucus had filed suit to stop the convention, which includes live performances, because it violates rules regarding sexual ( Read more... )

Orson Scott Card, whose book Ender's Game is extremely popular with the geek crowd and is about to be adapted by Marvel Comics, has come out with a violently antigay essay in which he basically says that gay relationships are unnatural:

No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter ( Read more... )

Several New York ISP's, including Time Warner Cable and Sprint, are blocking their subscribers' access to Usenet as part of a New York Attorney General crackdown on child pornography. Which is an overreaction and a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, to be sure ( Read more... )