Friday stuff
Aug. 3rd, 2007 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. They've cast the big-screen version of The Spirit, which means the movie will happen! Alas, the least subtle man on the planet is still the director and writer; yes, Frank Miller is the Goddamn writer.
2. David Pogue blogs about the CableCard, a technology you might never have heard of, but which you might very well be able to take advantage of.
3. For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emilytheslayer and anyone else heading to Worldcon next month: A gorgeous, pannable panorama view of Yokohama (ganked from pnh).
4. Charles Simic is the new US Poet Laureate. He's the fourth from the folks I read back in Georgia Christopher's wonderful Poetry: The Generation 2000 course back in my freshman year at Emory (Rita Dove, Robert Hass, and Louise Glück, all of whom I like much better than Simic, actually, preceded him). I hope that Thomas Lux and Sharon Olds will join that list someday.
5. The LA Weekly, the world's most useless "alternative" paper (where "alternative" is, presumably, in opposition to "things that don't suck"), has, over the years, played home to Harlan Ellison's moronic "offended" rant on the Omen, and to the moronic Nikki Finke's rant against releasing Christmas-themed horror flicks. Their latest idiot move is to provide a forum for hack film critic Scott Foundas writing the most sycophantic article about Brett Ratner ever produced. I can only assume that Foundas is in for 1% of the gross on Rush Hour 3 for this one.
6. Elton John: Grouchy, ignorant moron. The fact that he hasn't produced any good art in ages isn't a sign that others haven't, or that the interwebs are to blame.
7. The Kansas Republicans have demanded a loyalty oath. Yeah, that's not a sign of unflinching evil or anything.
8. Lis Riba notes that Strikethrough '07 is basically continuing right now. Only that LJ is doing a better job of covering up the actual strikingthrough part.
9. Want to watch the first episode of Californication (the new Duchovny show), or the season premiere of Weeds? Go here. The password is "Mondays".
10. Finally, Rome, Season 2 hits DVD on Tuesday! And Amazon's got it for 50% off! Woohoo! Of course, 50% off of an HBO show still puts it at $49.99. Get with the times, HBO!
2. David Pogue blogs about the CableCard, a technology you might never have heard of, but which you might very well be able to take advantage of.
3. For
emilytheslayer and anyone else heading to Worldcon next month: A gorgeous, pannable panorama view of Yokohama (ganked from pnh).4. Charles Simic is the new US Poet Laureate. He's the fourth from the folks I read back in Georgia Christopher's wonderful Poetry: The Generation 2000 course back in my freshman year at Emory (Rita Dove, Robert Hass, and Louise Glück, all of whom I like much better than Simic, actually, preceded him). I hope that Thomas Lux and Sharon Olds will join that list someday.
5. The LA Weekly, the world's most useless "alternative" paper (where "alternative" is, presumably, in opposition to "things that don't suck"), has, over the years, played home to Harlan Ellison's moronic "offended" rant on the Omen, and to the moronic Nikki Finke's rant against releasing Christmas-themed horror flicks. Their latest idiot move is to provide a forum for hack film critic Scott Foundas writing the most sycophantic article about Brett Ratner ever produced. I can only assume that Foundas is in for 1% of the gross on Rush Hour 3 for this one.
6. Elton John: Grouchy, ignorant moron. The fact that he hasn't produced any good art in ages isn't a sign that others haven't, or that the interwebs are to blame.
7. The Kansas Republicans have demanded a loyalty oath. Yeah, that's not a sign of unflinching evil or anything.
8. Lis Riba notes that Strikethrough '07 is basically continuing right now. Only that LJ is doing a better job of covering up the actual strikingthrough part.
9. Want to watch the first episode of Californication (the new Duchovny show), or the season premiere of Weeds? Go here. The password is "Mondays".
10. Finally, Rome, Season 2 hits DVD on Tuesday! And Amazon's got it for 50% off! Woohoo! Of course, 50% off of an HBO show still puts it at $49.99. Get with the times, HBO!