I should rebel against the Twitter/micro blogging trend by... actually posting!

Really, at some point I'll come up with a post of more than 140 characters.

I am a closet Christian" (via Salon).

It's an interesting article for Salon and has already generated more comments than the typical Salon story.

What I think about the rest of the article notwithstanding, this part I can easily relate to:

Those preachers on the subways make me cringe." She said she prefers Saint Francis: "Preach the gospel at ( Read more... )

I'm not the only one who had that thought: Work to begin on Dr. Horrible sequel.

From the this-should-come-as-no-surprise department: Fox cancels Dollhouse

I can't really get upset about this. It's not Joss' best work. Hopefully now he can go on to better projects without a studio (More Dr. Horrible anyone?).

Google released a new programming language.

From the language design FAQ:

What is the history of the project ( Read more... )

Dollhouse

The second episode of the season had its lowest ratings ever. A rerun on ABC (The Forgotten) had almost double Dollhouse's Friday viewers. For good measure, Dollhouse only beat a rerun of America's Next Top Model on the CW (via io9.comGiven that it is now in direct competition with a show on syfy (SG:U, more on that in a minute) and ( Read more... )

Where I Write

An interesting project that photographs writers in their writing spaces.

Somehow I missed that a Warehouse 13 co-creator was Jane Espenson, who also wrote for Buffy and Battlestar Galactica. That's what happens when she hasn't updated her blog since December.

Browsing the writing section of the bookstore, I came across a book written by a former professor of mine. He had fiction published, some of which I've read and is more than I can say, but the find of a book in the writing section was somewhat surprising ( Read more... )

Karate Kid remake to star Jackie Chan"Karate Kid" came out in 1984, so the likely next remakes are: "Gremlins", "Police Academy", "Back to the Future", or "The Goonies"*. We've already seen the latest Indiana Jones movie, the Star Trek reboot, and heard about the "Ghostbusters" sequel. Next year it'll be "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and maybe we'll ( Read more... )