Saturday cute: Zoot from the Muppets looks like…
…a streetlamp? Yup: Via TotallyLooksLike.com. (Got a photo or image that’s adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)
easter eggs
Friday night fortune cookie: Otis B. Driftwood says…
“Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.”
omg: Trekkies descend on Vulcan, Alberta, Canada this weekend
Star Trek conventions are hardly an unusual thing these days: there’s probably at least one every weekend somewhere on the planet. But VulCON17: Spock Days/Galaxyfest 2010, taking place this weekend, is special. You have to travel to the small prairie town of Vulcan, in the Canadian province of Alberta, to join in the fun. And … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #127
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
poster divergence: ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Sex and the City 2’
I’ve been particularly struck by the posters for The A-Team (a big version after the jump), variations of which are currently appearing on the sides of buses and on the walls of subway stations all around New York City. The images are genuinely arresting, and I’m always unable to stop myself gawking at them. Take … more…
deep thought
Traffic goes up a little, and the spammers come out of the woodwork. To all the new readers: Welcome. Hope you enjoy yourselves here. To all the new spammers: You’re ugly, and you’re going to die alone and miserable, whereupon ravenous squirrels will eat your body.
omg: Steve Jobs agrees with me about how Hollywood will have to change
I’ve been talking about it loudly and frequently for ages: the entertainment environment is changing rapidly, all sorts of new options are available for acquiring and viewing movies, and Hollywood should be listening to how its customers are telling the industry it needs to change. Going to the multiplex is an expensive and unpleasant proposition … more…
poster convergence: ‘Twilight: Eclipse’ and ‘Meet the Beatles’
Meet the Volturi. Okay, the Beatles album cover isn’t a poster. But it serves the same purpose. And it was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this poster for Twilight: Eclipse on a bus shelter last night. Dakota Fanning is totally John Lennon, don’tcha think?
deep thought
People are way too easily amused.
Saturday cute: ‘Lost’ as a 1980s computer adventure game
What if Lost were a LucasArts-style game from, like, 1987? From Penney Design. Click through for lots more “screens” from the “game.” (Got a photo or image that’s adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)
