trailer break: ‘500 Days of Summer’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really? Really? Another quirky indie romantic comedy that’s all sad and morose instead of upbeat and chirpy? Really? Actually, this is a wonderful movie. So wonderful that I wanna see it again, which I don’t usually want to do with romantic comedies. But there’s this one bit … more…

girls at Comic Con! yuck!

I’m not going to San Diego Comic Con this week. I wish I was. One of these years, I will get there. And I wouldn’t be alone, of course: it’s been a long time since fandom and geekness has been a primarily male domain (if it ever was). But you’d hardly know that from the … more…

watch it: the 7/4/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama

Global recession… global warming… Who says we’re not united as a planet and a species? Why, we’re practically living in the Star Trek utopia! </snark> Our economy has been pulled back from the brink? The economic freefall has been stopped? Funny how it doesn’t feel that way at all… And would everyone please STFU about … more…