Monday night.
* What went wrong with Terminator Salvation? There's been some loose talk that T4 isn't all that bad, but this is incorrect. It is that bad. It's worse. Via MeFi.
* Speaking of bad scripts: On Lucas's original script for Star Wars. Also via MeFi.
* The Spider-Man newspaper strip has retconned the Spider-Man-was-never-married retconned. Please adjust your interest in Spider-Man accordingly.
* Scandal at Oxford! The university's first female professor of poetry has resigned nine days into her tenure amidst allegations that she organized a smear campaign against one of her opponents for the job.
* Five ways to tell if your life is a Wes Anderson film. Via Rushmore Academy.
Monday, May 25, 2009
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Labels: academia, Christian Bale, comics, film, George Lucas, Oxford, poetry, retcons, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Terminator, Wes Anderson
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Potpourri.
* Incoming Energy Secretary Steven Chu hates coal. I sort of love this guy.
* The Battlestar Galactica webisodes have started up again.
* "Would you rather be a novel or a poem?" Answer wisely and you could go to Oxford. Via Bookninja.
* Every so often the veil of ideology drops.
* Classic albums get LEGOized.
* 'Whedon: Dollhouse Problems Are My Fault.'
* Ron Moore's promising-sounding Virtuality may never see the light of day.
* The natural history of mythical creatures.
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Labels: Battlestar Galactica, coal, cryptozoology, Dollhouse, Joss Whedon, LEGO, music, Oxford, Ponzi schemes, Ron Moore, scams, Steven Chu, television, Virtuality, Wall Street, webisodes