question of the day: Do film and TV production subsidies provided by local governments make sense?
Subsidies bring in jobs, right? Or are they a convenient windfall for projects that would have happened anyway?
London photo of the day: one likes speed
Queen Elizabeth II, speed freak.
Dave Eggers’ unpleasant ideas about criticism (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Prometheus (review)
Wants to be an ambitious SF drama, but somewhere along the way, the provocative speculation and the seriocomic tragedy got lost. Oh, and the characters got forgotten, too. Plus there’s precious little authentic drama.
Doctor Who thing of the day: shoes that only a supervillain could wear
Lonely Soles offers up some concept footwear — these don’t actually exist — that would be really really hard to wear…
Web Video of the Day is going away
If and when I do come across interesting Web videos, I’ll post them to the social-networking sites, and include them in the daily roundups.
Savages (trailer)
All new! There’s two guys butthurt by having their female property taken from them. Awesome.
question of the day: With so many expensive movies sinking this year, will Hollywood step back from the blockbuster?
Or will the industry double-down and take even bigger gambles with $500 million movies in coming years?
London photo of the day: the Queen meets Chicago Supreme
Celebrate the Jubilee at McDonald’s… with some “Great Tastes of America.”
no kids would go homo if they didn’t read about teh gay in comics (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
