Living the Liminal

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Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.
It will be playing, for free, online between July 15 - July 20, with other distribution models to follow.
“For every day . . . there is a night.”

As if there aren’t enough reasons to avoid your local multiplex:

While at the cinema yesterday, I read a notice posted by the box office that Paramount has intentionally silenced bits of the soundtrack of _Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ in order to deter and track piracy. The notice acknowledged [...]

For fans of Torchwood (or fans of Doctor Who who gave up on the spin-off after the first several episode of the first series) - you should head over to Torchwood Babiez and check out the really great webcomic that they are creating. Scroll to the bottom of the webpage to find the starting point. [...]

300 brought a violent comic book to violent life, but with a stylization that actually undercut the violence. The severed limbs and the flying droplets of blood were done so crisply, with such precision that there was nothing real about any of the scenes. A sense of fabrication underlay all the violent scenes. And strangely, [...]

Searchable Database of the Bush Administrations LIes:
It would be a terrible mistake for the world to allow this man to continue to flaunt his obligations to the international community, to continue to build weapons of mass destruction under the dark of night, and to one day wake up in a situation in which [...]

From his Discworld book Interesting Times:
When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open. - Rincewind

Technorati Tags: rincewind, discworld, terry pratchett, revolutions

“28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)” (Danny Boyle, Toby James)
When I first saw this movie on the big screen, with my friend Natalie - I was really impressed. The scenes of empty London in particular were stunning in a movie theatre. Overall I felt that the ways in which Boyle created tension were compelling. Rather than [...]

Is it just me or is Jeopardy become a haven for product placement these days? They had an entire category based on some film I’d never heard of . . . The Bucket List. Then, the answer to the final clue was “Pringles.” The other day there was some category that raised the same question [...]

The Colbert Report Writers: Sorry, Internet on FunnyOrDie.com

Technorati Tags: writer’s strike, capitalism, fairness, new media

Last week sucked. I’ll write more about it in the future, but it was tiresome, annoying and for most of the week I wasn’t getting home before 1 am, and Wednesday I wasn’t home until 3 am. So yesterday, I did nothing but read and watch movies with J. It was probably the first [...]