While one would expect that a character, franchise and (as DC and Warner Brothers would call it) "intellectual property" such as Batman presumably has legs given the pop-culture icon levels of following he and his recent movies have had - it appears that Warner Brothers isn't above making Devil's Deals to prevent any kind of risk.

Case in point, the ( Read more... )

Today's big news for comics fans is that Marvel Studios struck a deal with the WGA allowing their superhero-themed projects to get back on track. "Marvel Studios' signing of an interim agreement with the Writers Guild is more good news for our membership," said WGAE President Michael Winship and WGAW President Patric M. Verrone. "Marvel is ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before that I write an enormous amount of stuff; the vast majority of which is non-fiction and actually non-entertainment related. Seeing as we're all LiveJournal Junkies, I thought the following article I wrote (published in a University Newspaper just last week) would amuse most of you, not least because of the topic of discussion ( Read more... )

With the failure of last minute talks between the Writers' Guild of America (both East and West) and the Producers and Networks on Tuesday - despite the mediation by a federally appointed neutral party - Union Writers accross the USA began to go on strike yesterday evening (US time), while Hollywood Scriptwriters desperately scrambled to complete ( Read more... )

Well, the "Mega Desktop" is kind of back in operation now after a smooth installation of the replacement power supply I found at a store about twelve miles away.As predicted, all the hardware is in full working order, but with one minor addendum.

Seems there was a power spike involved somewhere in the mix and it kinda wiped some data off my hard ( Read more... )

( A tale of a little girl who took after her daddy... )

• If anything can go wrong, it will.
• If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
• If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
• If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, ( Read more... )

For people who know that I live in the United Kingdom (of Great Britain), specifically Glasgow, Scotland - you might have thought my silence over the situation here in my local area a little odd. After all, on Saturday we had one of the first terrorist attacks to hit Britain since the July London Bombings a couple of years ago - within a week of ( Read more... )