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The official preliminary count of attendees at New York Comic Con this past weekend is at least 64,000. I’d say the “at least” qualifier is a good one. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. It was a wonderful experience, if an exhausting one. Here’s some of what I saw. (Many photos after the jump.) … more…
It’s true: Joss Whedon of Firefly and Buffy fame is in the process of creating a new musical serial for the Web. It’s called Doctor Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog. Geek-a-licious, no? It will star Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Felicia Day, and it will come at us as a three-part, 30-minute serial. (Whether that means … more…
In case you’ve forgotten how beautiful our planet is on this Earth Day: Makes me cry… (Technorati tags: Earth Day)
Physicist Michio Kaku has a new book out: it’s called Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel, and this is the jacket (to the right). TARDISes! And over at Bad Astronomy, Coloradan Phil Plait (I did a panel with him at WorldCon in 2006) … more…
AdAge says TV viewership has not bounced back after the writers’ strike. Variety reports that the major networks are bringing shows in from overseas in an attempt to save production dollars. In this midst of this dire TV environment, the Los Angeles Times says that the CW will stop offering free Internet streams of new … more…
More liberal fascism! More of that left-wing reality! Al Gore updates some inconvenient truths for 2008, and they’re scarier than ever… yet delivered with a humanistic dose of optimism. Ooops! There’s that dreaded liberalism again! (Technorati tags: TED Talks, Al Gore, climate crisis)
While I recover from the insanity of New York Comic Con this past weekend — and take some time to go through all the stuff and swag I collected and try to organize it all into cohesive blocks, the better to tell you about it — I’m doing just one screening this week: Made of … more…
It’s really hard to like a character when his own movie makes fun of him.
I’ve closed comments on my review of the creationist propaganda film Expelled. And yes, I use that term — creationist propaganda film — quite deliberately. I’d hoped the discussion about the film and my review would be about, you know, the film and the issues it raises about how science and fact are warped in … more…
Because Ben Stein deserves nothing but ridicule, which Richard Dawkins dishes out hilariously: via Civil Commotion (Technorati tags: Sexpelled No Intercourse Allowed)
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