Saturday mail call and other stuff
Jan. 22nd, 2005 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiGot a nice random surprise in the mail -- whiskey glasses and stirrers from Maker's Mark. They randomly send out free gifts (I've also got some nice coasters) to folks who join their mailing list. Alas, whiskey itself is never a free gift.
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly reminds me of how happy I am with new(ish) TV critic Gillian Flynn. Aside from just being a hell of a good writer, in the latest "Ask the Critic," she agrees with me that Home Improvement was the worst successful sitcom ever.
The mail also brought the latest issue of Giant Magazine. I so love this magazine -- a "men's magazine" (as in Maxim, Stuff, etc) that uses humorous footnotes, praises books like DC's Bizarro World, and actually interviews the actresses who do photoshoots with them for pages at a time (and since they talk to folks like Parker Posey, Anna Farris, and Amanda Peet, they also tend to be interesting interviews).
Elsewhere:
Neil Gaiman is writing an animated Beowulf with Roger Avery, to be animated and directed by Roger Zemeckis using the Polar Express animation process. Not quite sure how I feel about that one.
World-record puppy litter. (link courtest![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Latest TV addiction: Ancient Almanac on History Channel International. Watched a nifty piece this afternoon on Port Royal (aka the Pirate City), which sunk back in the 1690s.
Fans of Mike Wieringo might enjoy his blog, which is not only excellent, but in which he's currently taking old sketches he did when he was a teenager and revamping them.
Oh, andmendoza and ariadnesthread? See if you can catch a rerun of this week's Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Aside from just being fun, this one was all about Sugar!
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly reminds me of how happy I am with new(ish) TV critic Gillian Flynn. Aside from just being a hell of a good writer, in the latest "Ask the Critic," she agrees with me that Home Improvement was the worst successful sitcom ever.
The mail also brought the latest issue of Giant Magazine. I so love this magazine -- a "men's magazine" (as in Maxim, Stuff, etc) that uses humorous footnotes, praises books like DC's Bizarro World, and actually interviews the actresses who do photoshoots with them for pages at a time (and since they talk to folks like Parker Posey, Anna Farris, and Amanda Peet, they also tend to be interesting interviews).
Elsewhere:
Neil Gaiman is writing an animated Beowulf with Roger Avery, to be animated and directed by Roger Zemeckis using the Polar Express animation process. Not quite sure how I feel about that one.
World-record puppy litter. (link courtest
mactavish)Latest TV addiction: Ancient Almanac on History Channel International. Watched a nifty piece this afternoon on Port Royal (aka the Pirate City), which sunk back in the 1690s.
Fans of Mike Wieringo might enjoy his blog, which is not only excellent, but in which he's currently taking old sketches he did when he was a teenager and revamping them.
Oh, and
mendoza and ariadnesthread? See if you can catch a rerun of this week's Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Aside from just being fun, this one was all about Sugar!