July 13th, 2008
Galley Friend Mike Russell puts together a strip where the comics version of Hellboy works with the movie version of Hellboy to explain the concept of Hellboy.
Genius.
0 commentsThe Recession Hits Home
July 12th, 2008
Starbucks has released its first list of store closures. On the chopping block is the Starbucks on Rt. 38 in Cherry Hill, NJ. If they can close a Starbucks in Cherry Hill, then truly none of us is safe.
Dust bowl days indeed.
0 comments"The Little Midget"
July 11th, 2008
Oh, the joys of working for Jeff Katzenberg:
0 commentsWhich, Katzenberg assured me, is a story that’s been told from the beginning of time. And he told me I should get this book by Ted Kopell and Joseph Campbell called Hero of a Thousand Journeys or Something. Actually, he offered, because he liked me so much in our first meeting, to have his people send me a copy. To help me write his movie.
And I said “oh, that sounds great,” because I had been coached for that meeting by the directors and producers, and one of the rules was that if Jeffrey said anything about story structure or Joseph Campbell, I was supposed to pretend I’d never heard of him.
Not kidding. Not exaggerating. Except for the Ted Kopell part.
The Little Tugboat That Could
July 10th, 2008
Galley Brother J.P. sends along a link to an amazing pictorial series. I won’t reproduce it here, because taken on their own, no one picture is particularly impressive. But it’s the story of a tugboat, pulling a barge down a flooding river toward a draw bridge. The bridge doesn’t open, the tug hits the span, flips on its side, and goes almost totally underwater.
And then the captain guns the engines and rights the fracking thing. You won’t believe it. Total hotness.
0 commentsTaking Sides with Sharia?
July 9th, 2008
I know, it sounds crazy. Especially when the story headline is “Brit facing jail for public sex in Dubai.” Sounds like another one of those outrageous sharia stories.
Yet when you read further down in the piece, I’m not unsympathetic to the Dubai authorities. It seems that Brit ex-pat Michelle Palmer got drunk at a brunch, met some dude, went for a walk on the beach with him, and then went for it. So far so good.
But when a Dubai cop caught the beast with two backs, he gave them a warning and told them to cut it out. Pretty reasonable, actually. The cop kept walking his beat, and came back to find the pair having another go, right where he’d left them. Here’s the Sun‘s description of what happened next:
Sources said Michelle, who works in Dubai for magazines firm ITP Publishing, launched an angry four-letter tirade after her second romp was halted.
She is alleged to have called the cop a f****** Muslim **** and tried to hit him with her high-heeled shoe before being restrained.
Two thoughts:
(1) Michelle kind of deserves whatever she gets out this, no? The Dubai police are talking about 3 to 6 months in jail and deportation. Does that really sound all that unfair for such behavior?
(2) Can you imagine the headlines if this had been an American girl? “One More Ugly American!” “More Wages of Bushism!” “Islamophobic Yanks Terrorize Another Middle Eastern Nation!”
0 commentsMMA on $5 a Month
July 8th, 2008
Well, not that cheap. But the Budget MMA Fan has a new blog devoted to helping you get the best MMA bang for your buck.
0 comments"I'm not here to make friends."
July 8th, 2008
Reality TV’s greatest cliche brought to life.
0 comments"We hack the internet."
July 8th, 2008
Two bits of Dark Knight news:
(1) The final trailer is out. Mostly wordless, it makes a lot of promises about the tone of the movie.
(2) And this is the important bit: Spill.com has found Michael Bay’s lost Dark Knight treatment. Sample awesomeness:
