Well, it is May 22, 2011 now, so it appears the zombie apocalypse I was counting on has failed to materialize. I’m going to have to get some work done and do laundry after all. Glad I didn’t do anything too embarrassing at that end of the world party. I love California and California could […]
If you are in Hollywood tonight, the Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age art show is the place to be. La Luz de Jesus gallery director Matt Kennedy curated it and wrote the 80 page catalog. Matt Kennedy has pretty much the most encyclopedic brain cavity I’ve ever come across, when it comes to […]
When the Sucker Punch billboards first went up in my neighborhood, I felt conflicted. It seemed, on the face of it, to have a decent checklist of things I would like in a movie, but I instinctively lizard-brain hated it. Upon reflection and now that the uniformly negative reviews of the movie are in, here […]
In an odd assortment of synchronicity, I was recently having conversations about both Cowboy Bebop and Keanu Reeves as an actor, albeit not linked conversations. Tonight, the Twitterverse is trending Cowboy Bebop hard. The talk of the digital town appears to be that Keanu Reeves is attached to possibly play Spike Siegel in a live […]
Gothic.net just posted the new trailer for Midnight Son. According to the official Midnight Son movie website, the much anticipated film will be making its world premier at the San Jose Cinequest Film Festival on March 4th. I was able to catch a rough cut at VampireCon, along with a great discussion with the director, […]
Tonight, Dita Von Teese is gracing CBS with her lovely self on CSI: Crime Scene investigation. She plays the love interest for Eric Szmanda’s character Greg Sanders. The episode is called A Kiss Before Frying and makes good use of Dita’s retro charms, with a combination of sexy burlesque performance interludes and riffs on classic […]
It has been a really really really good news week. First of all, the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, or DADT, was repealed. For those of you who have been living in a cave, because you hate our way of life, DADT was a Clinton-era piece of legislation. DADT was designed to make it […]
I’m not exactly a big tabloid reader, although I’m fascinated by the cultural impact of evolving media forms. I did watch the Edward G. Robinson classic Unholy Partners this week on TCM. Unholy Partners is a 1941 movie, a period piece about how WWI spurred sensationalist journalism but America was all done with that by […]
According to Clara Moskowitz at Live Science, there is an award series called the Ig Nobels. An Ig Nobel award should not be confused with the no-longer meaningful Nobel prizes, who they hand out to pretty much anybody these days. (I used to hope that maybe some day I could be Time’s person of the […]