Ther’s a Thai kickboxing movie out called Ong Bak! – the trailer is in Japanese with fantabulous stunts, including Flaming Feets of Whoopass and an exploding tuk-tuk. At one point in the breathless Japanese commentary, you can hear the words “Akushon speedo! (Action Speed!)” I think this is my new favorite phrase. And though I likely won’t see this film, it also plays like a particularly violent episode of Amazing Race – on steroids, crack, and Sterno. There are more links and background information here. Via BoingBoing.
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The third Star Wars title was announced at Comic-Con (AAAAHHH!): Revenge of the Sith. Yep, and the movie comes out May 2005, the month after Firefly. Next year is going to be big for SF movie fans. A fan quoted in the article expressed satisfaction with the title, noting the similarity of the title and logo to “Return of the Jedi,” the concluding film in the original trilogy. From what I recall, that film was originally titled “Revenge of the Jedi,” but Lucas toned it down, since he was then in the throes of being a namby-pamby parental wimp, who…
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Yep, we went to see it: The Bourne Supremacy We saw the first film, and I watched it recently on cable, so my memories of the earlier film (and liking for it) were fresh in my mind. As a sequel, the Bourne Supremacy works really well, and it built plot points on foundations only hinted at in the earlier film. However, there was one part of the story that irked me; David said it was essential to set up Bourne’s motivation, but I thought it was the same old Hollywood hackery that happens to action heroes in the first reel.…
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Clear Channel Communications, Inc., has signed a deal to broadcast Air America Radio on its Miami outlet, WINZ-AM, RadioInk reported Friday. Oh, delicious irony – citing both the popularity of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and AAR’s great ratings make it irresistable to a network that supposedly has strong corporate ties to the Bush League. And CC execs are also aware that putting a liberal radio show in South Florida, aka Electoral Ground Zero, can’t hurt ratings in a presidential election year.
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Yeah, well, I’ve been hankering after a 3 column layout for a while now, and this one works in both IE6 and Firefox. My old 2 column layout does not play well in Firefox: probably something icky to do with either divs, or it doesn’t understand the width expressed as a percentage. It only took all day. However, part of yesterday and much of today were spent chasing after a 3 column solution that simply would not work; I found a much more workable one that was easier to adapt at the Moveable Type support forum. For the record, the…
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MEDFORD, Ore. – A nylon necklace strung with condoms has sparked outrage at the county fair. Strangely enough, the necklace kits were very, very popular with older teens, the target group for a Planned Parenthood promotion aimed at making contraceptive use normal and less embarassing. However, due to the obligatory “numerous complaints” from parents whose kids were not among those making the condom leis, Planned Parenthood agreed after meeting with fair officials to stop the promotion. It wasn’t difficult for them to come to this agreement, because they ran out of supplies for making the condom leis, which consisted of…
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Just in time to make the major news organizations “hot” sheets for tomorow… the weekend before the DNC takes over Boston. Timing is everything, and both sides play the game. The Pentagon had said that the payroll records for that time period had been inadvertently destroyed. “Previous attempts to locate the missing records at the Federal Records Center had been unsuccessful due to the incorrect records accession numbers provided,” the Pentagon’s Office of Freedom of Information chief C.Y. Talbott said in a letter Friday to The Associated Press. “The correct numbers were obtained … and the records were found.” Talbott…
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Joey reports via a friend’s blog that William Shatner will commit albumery again, this time with actual musicians of note Ben Folds and Joe Jackson, on a project titled (wait for it)… Has Been. I hope this is true, I would totally shell out for it. Joey concludes with a quote that ought to have been part of Original, Classic, and Still the Cheesiest Star Trek Canon: Yeoman Rand, you common ensign, you’ve started a warp core breach… IN MY PANTS. Also not to be missed: a plea for Wil Wheaton to collaborate on something that sounds like it’ll be…
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Although the movie isn’t due to open until April 22nd next year, Whedon is ready to show the first clip from from Serenity, the motion picture based on the Firefly series. He’ll do it this weekend at Comic-Con, also present will be the cast from the series/movie (all 9 actors), editor Lisa Lassek, special effects guru Loni Peristere and producer Chris Buchanan. It will take place on Sunday July 25th, 1-2pm, Room 20, afterwards there will be a signing session in room 28DE. Aaaahhhhh!! Aaaaaaaaah!!!! If I had planned farther in advance and maybe smacked David over the head with…
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Miss Alli, Our Lady of the Recaps, intervenes before things get out of hand in a discussion of the recent TAR episode that happened to touch on religion: But of course, the topic is the team. And generalizing about religion is about the least fun a moderator can have short of being spattered with hot bacon grease, so let’s not.