My unhealthy obsession with the presidential race has been crowding out the literature and pop culture blogging I normally do. Here's a linkdump to try and correct that balance:
* The Washington Post visits the Manhattan of Mad Men, c. 1962.
* How to land a 747.
* Don DeLillo (fake) blogs politics at the Onion, while the incredible José Saramago—whose excellent Blindess is both the best book I've read in months and a new motion picture out this Friday despite the fact that it is quite literally unfilmable—(real) blogs in Portuguese and Spanish. Via MeFi and Alex Greenberg.
* Salon looks at David Foster Wallace's sad last days, while Boston.com has a map of Infinite Jest.
* Survive the Outbreak: a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure zombie movie. Via MeFi. More zombie fun here.
* Grave sites of famous science fiction authors.
* Concept art from the upcoming Green Lantern movie. More at MeFi.
* Michael Moore's latest movie, Slacker Uprising, is available for free online. "This film, really isn't for anybody other than the choir," said Moore. "But that's because I believe the choir needs a song to sing every now and then." So the film's not very good, is that it? Via MeFi.
* The Evil League of Evil is hiring.
* Stephen Colbert is about to team up with Spider-Man.
* And Neanderthals loved sushi. Who doesn't?
Monday, September 29, 2008
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 8:06 PM
Labels: blindness, blogs, Boston, Colbert, comics, David Foster Wallace, death, DeLillo, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Evil League of Evil, film, graves, Green Lantern, Infinite Jest, José Saramago, Mad Men, Michael Moore, Neanderthals, New York, Philip K. Dick, science fiction, Spider-Man, sushi, television, worst case scenarios, zombies
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