You know, considering that I'm trying to read 50 books this year and that I'd like to try to write for a living, this news kinda has me depressed. Yeah, granted that most of the stuff I read is fiction, and that most of the stuff I'm writing isn't exactly up there with Shakespeare, it's still sad to see how much as a nation we've declined in the ( Read more... )

...this one might be worth a look at.

Oh, and something about today being Star Wars' 30th anniversary. Yayz for nostalgia, Im in ur death star, torpedoing ur exhaustports. XP

Because laridian brings the LOLs



(http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1749076 if you can't see it above)

While I do agree with most that the film 300 absolutely rocked, I overhead this little nugget of info which made me think a tad.

"Ultimately the film takes a moral stance, Herodotean in nature: there is a difference, an unapologetic difference between free citizens who fight for eleutheria and imperial subjects who give obeisance. We are not left ( Read more... )

Well, for those of you who haven't been keeping track of Hollywood and its need to stripmine everything in sight for material, they're in the process of making WarGames 2. Bad enough about that (the first one, with Matthew Broderick, was well before anyone really knew about computers), but instead of trying to be responsible about it, Sony (the ( Read more... )

Ah, the Michael Bay Transformers...they just get better and better.

Bumblebee used to be my favorite.( Now he looks like a Kafkaesque nightmare )

Remember yesterday, when I mentioned about the radical redesign for Bumblebee's robot mode, where people couldn't tell whether he was laying down face up or face down?

Sadly, I found the picture. ( here you go! )

Forgive the geekery, folks, but it must be said.

Penny Arcade's been talking about it. AICN's been talking about it. All of the Transformer fansites have been screaming about it. For those of you who aren't familiar with the news, the fact is out that the first official images from the movie came out very briefly (more on that later). The good ( Read more... )

Today, I had the chance to finally watch animator Richard Williams' long lost masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler. It is a magificent tale in and of itself, just alone by the fact that the production was started in 1964, and the fact that for 27 years it languished in Development Hell, making it the longest cinematic production in history. The ( Read more... )

This story should interest a few people, given tonight's showing.

CNN:( Jesus Christ Superman )