Galley Friend M.G. sends us this amazing video. You’re the shitzu.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGKHeXWggM0]

This is a truly amazing interview. Jamie MacDonald, the VP of Sony Worldwide Studios Europe, says in the course of the same interview that:

(1) “In five years’ time, my belief is that the majority of content won’t be delivered on disc. That has many implications for developers and the way we organise our industry.”

and

(2) “Blu-ray is absolutely needed for the high definition content in the games that we’ll be producing.”

Awesome!

Mike Russell has a long interview with Christopher Nolan with all sorts of tidbits about The Prestige, but the best news is that the Batman sequel is going to be titled The Dark Knight.

I didn’t fall in love with Batman Begins, but hope springs eternal.

And so we learn today that, in fact, Neil Armstrong, upon being the first man to set foot on the moon, actually did say, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” It turns out static had engulfed the “a,” much to the annoyance of grammarians everywhere. The clarification was made possible using the latest in sound analysis.

Funny, I didn’t know you could get that much static in a Hollywood backlot.

Galley Friend S.B. has a fantastic email report from one of his buddies, P.K., who’s a Phillies fan who got to attend the Phils-Nationals game where the Big Collapse started:

When I realized the Phils-Nats game was going to start in half an hour, peddaled my bike down there, getting into the stadium as the 2nd Phillie was at the plate, in time to watch them throw up a complete shit-burger in front of about 600 of the most insanely rabid Phillies fans you’d ever see.

Seriously, this crowd of fans, they were the dregs. No actual brawls, but several near brawls–and these were near-fights among the Phillies fans.

I was actually glad to discover, once I got there, that they weren’t serving any beer.

As we commiserated at the urinals after the game–is there any more pathetic way to commiserate–one guy summed it all up: “Fuck. Fuck. We’re done. And the Flyers are gonna suck, the Sixers are just done, and who knows what the Eagles are gonna do next. God damn it. Where’s Smarty Jones, seriously, where’s that horse? Smarty, we love you, come back, SMARTY, SMARTY!”

For reals.

I don’t want to give the impression that I hate ESPN–I don’t. I hate what ESPN has become. So here’s a little reminder of the good old days. Note the genius of Kenny Mayne.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVrFc7OlXs]

We’ve been waiting for this news for what seems like ages and now it has finally arrived: ESPN Mobile is dead.

How satisfying is it? Plenty, but you have to follow the link to see the internal ESPN memo describing the news:

we confronted a very competitive sales environment for our MVNO while at the same time attracting significant interest from others to license distribution of Mobile ESPN. Taking all of this into account and after careful consideration, we have decided to change direction and turn Mobile ESPN into a licensed wireless application to be offered by one or more major national carriers. This shift will allow us to get Mobile ESPN’s critically acclaimed content to many more fans much more quickly.

It’s not a failure, it’s an advance!

And if you really, really want to wallow, keep scrolling down into that comments thread. It’s priceless. Samples:

Bort says:

ESPN shouldn’t kill ESPN Mobile…it has 150 million reasons to be alive.

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DirtyJersey says:

I heard they had to pry the last two out of Jason Whitlock’s mouth.

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Mitch Comstein, my roommate says:

kim etheridge had this to say:

‘espn mobile is not closing down operations… it had an allergic reaction to the reality’

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Dr.Venkman says:

I heard that ESPN Mobile “inappropriately vibrated” on an assistant at an Outback Steakhouse.

Go read the rest. It’s classic.

Galley Friend L.B. sends this snippet from Bill Simmons’s chat today:

Jim (NJ): Over/Under: The amount of pill bottles throw on field by Philly fans: 30,000.

Bill Simmons: (3:52 PM ET ) 30,000???? Come on, that’s low… each fan will be good for four bottles, 60,000 people, I’m saying the over/under is 200,000.