Shoot the Piano Player Again, Sam
Feb 27Holy shit, tonight’s BSG episode was brutal. No serious spoilers here. But a note for those who follow the new show but never saw the old – early on, when the piano player is told that the notes he’s playing are a rip-off of some other piece of music, they are indeed: they’re the opening [...]
Galactica 1999
Feb 27Back in 1999, Richard Hatch (who played Apollo on the original BSG and who plays Zarek on the new one) created a trailer for a proposed BSG continuation that would ignore Galactica 1980. For a long time this trailer has been unavailable online for legal reasons. Right now it’s on YouTube, but I don’t know [...]
Amtor on the Half-Shell
Feb 27A bit over a year ago I reported discovering a website devoted to an upcoming movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Pirates of Venus. But then the website vanished for a while and I figured the project had fallen through. Now, though, I see that the website has risen again from the sea-foam, with the [...]
They Don’t Call It the Golden Age For Nothing
Feb 26Comic books have grown tame! There was a time when they dealt with truly cosmic issues … as this Superman cover from 1949 demonstrates: Also, check out this cover gallery for more edgy tales from the Loisandclarkverse!
Don’t Know Dick
Feb 25Sam Register, one of the minds behind the animated Teen Titans series (not a bad show, but miles below Bruce Timm’s groundbreaking Batman/Superman/League animated series), when asked whether the Robin in Titans is Dick Grayson or Tim Drake (aside: incidentally, Grayson is the only answer that makes sense), answers: “I am so completely bored with [...]
I’ll Take Manhattan
Feb 25I’m watching Maddow interviewing Pelosi on security briefings that Pelosi received but was not allowed to reveal. Pelosi says that thanks to security requirements, she could not speak out against policies she disapproved of. Duh, of course she could. Has she never heard of civil disobedience? Maddow compares Pelosi to Spider-man and Dr. Manhattan, both [...]
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