This is a clip from an interview with J. Michael Straczyski, with him telling a story about Joss Whedon. It's fabulous:

If you're a Babylon 5 geek like me, the entire interview is worth listening to.

It would appear to be August 18th again. That means I've been in Ithaca for four years. Of course, that's not at all true, because it's not like I've been in Ithaca every second of every day for the last four years. So perhaps properly I should say that I've now been living in Ithaca for four years. But that's not right either, because I spent most ( Read more... )

So, I'm here in Korea for ISIT. Sorry for not live blogging like I did went I went to France a couple of years ago. I've been busy. Also tired ( Read more... )

I finally saw Up last night. I would have seen it last week, except that I decided I wanted to see it in 3D, and all the theaters close to where I live are only showing it in 2D, so seeing it in 3D required a little more planning, and a BART trip to San Francisco. This was my first time seeing a movie in RealD 3D, which is the new digital 3D ( Read more... )

10 years ago was May 19, 1999.

Looks like a second season of Dollhouse may be significantly more likely than most of us thought. We find out for sure at Fox's upfront on Monday, but the internet wouldn't lie to us about something like this, right?

Come on, Fox, don't let us down again.

Oh, who am I kidding.

ETA: Um, and now it's definitely renewed? I can't actually vouch for ( Read more... )

Dear Lost,

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On October 17, 2008, when it was looking pretty likely that Barack Obama was going to be the next president, pollster and pseudo-Orwellian wordsmith Frank Luntz popped up on Bill Maher's show. He and Bill had a short (but apparently memorable, because I remembered it) argument about why the Democrats lost in 2000 and 2004. Frank thought it was ( Read more... )

I've been working my way through Buffy for the first time on DVD. I'm currently in the middle of season 5.

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I saw this TV spot for the new Star Trek movie tonight:

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Yeah, I suppose that was inevitable. Sigh.