By 2011, opines The Economist, a movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged “may feel superfluous to Rand’s most loyal fans; events unfolding around them will have been dramatisation enough.”
Yeah, that’s right; Rand’s most loyal fans would be happy to take an economic meltdown in lieu of an Atlas film. Uh-huh.
Forget that new Watchmen movie that’s coming out in theatres. This Saturday morning cartoon version is far more awesome:
On Colbert I just saw Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air (a book about Priestley), saying that before Priestley there were no scientific theories about the nature of air. Okay, there’s one book I don’t need to pick up.
Captain America and the Falcon are right – growing the new society within the shell of the old takes money! If you can, please support the Center for a Stateless Society’s fundraiser.
Turns out Hitler doesn’t like the new Watchmen movie. (WARNING: SPOILERS for anyone who’s been living under a rock for the past few months.)
Steve Skeates once wrote a comic featuring The Question (a character created by Randian Steve Ditko), in which the hero, asked by the villain “Don’t you remember me?” replies “Now listen, my friend, you weren’t important enough for me to remember!” Ditko had no problem with the last part of the line (after all it sounds a bit like Roark’s one line to Toohey), but he sent Skeates a six-page rant – “a rather daunting and even rather scary letter,” as Skeates recalls – explaining why his hero would never call a criminal “friend” even in jest. Details here.