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Spent a little time at the bookstore on Sunday, where I purchased --

A Bantam Books collection of two of the Nero Wolfe novels -- I've never read any of them before, and I've been meaning to for as long as I can remember.  I specifically decided to go on and buy the collection when I saw that it had the first Nero Wolfe story in it (bonus!), and ( Read more... )

Hurm.

Don Cheadle is the fucking man.  He's a touch old for the role, but other than that I have no problem with this.

Over at CHUD is a piece of movie news that's so good it really is almost too good to be true.  I'm terrified that it's wishful thinking from someone's blog that somehow managed to escape into the wild.

Stephen Chow is going to direct the new Green Hornet movie.  He's also going to star as Kato.

Why yes, that's exactly how Cobra Commander rolls --


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John Scalzi has a new short story up at the Subterranean Press website.  If you've read more than a dozen super-hero comic books, you'll probably find it amusing.

Speaking of, I met Scalzi at DragonCon this year.  Nice guy.

Questions one, one-a and two are for everyone, at least. Question three is for the local folks only, for reasons that will be obvious. And by "local", I mean "living in Alabama", not just right around me.

1) What kind of phone do you have?
1a)What kinds of features does your phone have?

2) Who's your service provider?

3) What kind of service do you ( Read more... )

So last night, I was randomly flipping channels, as I am sometimes wont to do. I paused for a second at G4 and heard Olivia Munn utter the words, "-- Batman hitting a guy with a car battery."

Since the above statement explicitly details more kinds of awesome than mortal man has heretofore been able to quantify, my curiosity was, shall we say, ( Read more... )

-- What's up with all the Jesus on The Learning Channel? First it was God or the Girl, then The Messengers and Shalom in the Home, then The Monastery, and now a piece of dreck that I dismiss solely on the strength of its awful title, something called Trial by Choir.

-- "The Price" is one of the few Next Generation episodes that's so bad that it ( Read more... )

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