Thursday links

[yendi]

1. Next year's Cure Tribute Album includes Tanya Donelly and Dylan in the Movies covering "The Lovecats." And if you search, you can find an MP3 of it.

2. The latest issue of Spin has a good (but way too short) Oral History of Black Rock (which is really a history of '80s black rock).

3. Ridley Scott has confirmed that he's directing the Monopoly movie. Because on Park Place, no one can hear you scream!

4. Camille Paglia on how she chose poems for Break, Blow, Burn. I still have some fundamental problems with both her process and her selections, but this does provide some nice insight.

5. Cory Doctorow on Copyfighting. Nothing to disagree with in this one.

6. The New Yorker writes on sex amongst evangelical teens.

7. HBO has approved a pilot for A Game of Thrones.

8. MadTV has been canceled.

9. Also, Wizkids is no more. And I still haven't bought a copy of Tsuro, dammit. Hope there are still some around when I've got post-holiday money, or that someone else buys the rights.

10. Finally, because people have way too much time on their hands, Cursebird is a real-time feed of Twitter posts containing cursewords. It's like an ongoing transcript of Kevin Smith's id.

Comments

[mortuus.livejournal.com]

Number 8 comes as a surprise, but only because I had no idea the show was still on. I thought it disappeared years ago....

[yendi]

Well, as is so often the case, Fox did bury it, time-slot wise. That said, the show's actually meant to be that slot. I suspect that maybe a Fox exec forgot it was on until he looked at some budget reports.

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

either that or Bobby Lee quit blowing the Fox exec that kept the show going...

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

MadTV was still on? Yikes.

C. wants some more of the Pirate game cards before they get scarce (...not that he's ever PLAYED it).

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

I have problems with Camille Paglia. Mostly because of how she's a right winger who pretends to be a leftist.