June 25th, 2007
Ron Rosenbaum has a great dissection of the pseudo-literate celebrity profile. Well worth your time.
If you read enough of these magazines you will, once in a blue moon, run across a celeb profile that’s pure hit-piece. The infamous GQ cover on Mira Sorvino comes to mind, as does the first Vanity Fair piece on the Hilton sisters many years ago. Those things are always quickly flushed down the memory hole, but when they happen, they’re beautiful to behold.
0 commentsHow Many Takes?
June 14th, 2007
The studs at Pajiba found this fantastic, mesmerizing video:
I can’t quite figure out what’s going on here. Is this a dot.com start-up? A graduate seminar? A very experimental theater group? Whatever the case, it makes me want to be young again.
And the camera work is pretty impressive.
(Yes, I know that this is a recruitment video from the Connected Ventures people. Still, I prefer to think of College Humor and Busted Tees as advanced performance art.)
P.S.: I could swear I spotted both Warren and Andrew in there. No Jonathan, though. Or bitchin’ Death Star van.
0 commentsMy name is Judge!
June 13th, 2007
Roy Pearson is suing his dry cleaner for losing a pair of his pants. He’s seeking $54 million in damages. But that’s not the best part.
The kicker is that Roy Pearson is a judge.
0 commentsWhy I'm Skeptical about The Sopranos, Part 2
June 13th, 2007
Part 1 here. Here’s Slate‘s Stephen Metcalf talking about the show: “For me, the show had, in its recent iterations, become like church, an every-Sunday obligation long on piety and atmospherics, short on actual belief.”
0 comments"Triumph of the Wii"
June 13th, 2007
Galley Friend P.S. sends us this Wired story on the Wii, which is worth its weight in gold just for the headline. Here’s the killer graph:
0 commentsThe simpler-games philosophy has proven to be a lucrative one. Nintendo recently reported operating income of 226 billion yen ($1.9 billion) for fiscal 2007, up 150 percent from 2006. Meanwhile, Sony’s games division experienced a drop in operating income of more than 80 percent. Analyst firm iSuppli reported in November that Sony is taking a $250 loss on every PS3 sold.
It's a Good News/Bad News Situation
June 13th, 2007
Ronnie Mars is dead. That’s the bad news. The good, or at least promising, news is that the comic-book version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 has sold so well that DC has approached Rob Thomas about doing a comic version of Veronica Mars: Season 4.
Which actually could be pretty great, seeing as how much fun the Buffy comics have been.
0 commentsThe Greatest Punch-Out Video Ever
June 12th, 2007
Remember the kids doing stop-motion, people-pixel versions of classic videogames? This isn’t quite at that level. But it’s very, very close.
Check out Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out: The Movie. You won’t be sorry.
0 commentsThe Michael Jordan of Women's Basketball Retires
June 12th, 2007
It’s a sad, sad day. Incidentally, does anyone remember how many “Michael Jordans of women’s basketball” have been pushed on us by the Four Letter Network in recent years. I’m thinking there’s been four of them (Staley, Lobo, Holdsclaw, and Taurasi), but there may have been others.
I think that’s more than the “next Michael Jordans” in the mens game.
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