Honey Boo Boo in trash (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
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Michael Bay is rebooting Transformers (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Maria Shriver leaked Arnie’s shame; Alan Rickman’s awesome open letter to J.K. Rowling; Disney abandons ‘Seal Team 6’ trademark; more: leftover links
Plus: Pirates of the Caribbean for Dummies; The Hangover and the rise of the jokeless comedy; HuffPo employees fleeing…
Joss Whedon will direct ‘Avengers’; much ado about ‘Inception’ and ‘Mad Men’; celebrity stalkers; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
wtf: ESPN lets LeBron James dictate the news, ScienceBlogs lets Pepsi dictate science…
Are there any real journalists left anywhere? And does anyone care? Tonight, ESPN will turn over an hour of its airtime to an athlete — basketball player LeBron James — so he can announce which team he’ll play for next season. I’m not any kind of sports fan, but I was under the impression that … more…
Rocky Balboa movie review: flying high now
Forget everything you know about the joke that Rocky Balboa has become in the three decades since he made his screen debut, and just think back to that first film, to its raw power and surprising sensitivity and hard beauty.
