Vince Vaughn has pitched his take on the proposed live-action Speed Racer movie, based on the Japanese animated series, with himself cast as Racer X… Heads up, David! This may be coming to a theater near us.
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I finally finished reading Nine Parts of Desire a couple of weeks ago, and found it disturbing and also enlightening. For instance, this article from the Beeb: Iran’s government has launched a crackdown on women who flout the strict Islamic dress codes during the hot summer months. And according to the book, Iran is actually strangely flexible in its rigidity – Khomeini was always more willing to extend more rights to women, so long as they observed the proprieties. At least they can work outside the home, for one thing. And drive, for another. Iranian women are better off than…
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Get Fuzzy takes a swipe at FoxTV for me so that I don’t have to. And while we’re on the subject of favorite shows formerly on Fox, the excellent folks over at FireflyFans.net have got a great campaign going to help get new Firefly fans excited about the upcoming movie – they’re buying DVD sets and donating them to troops and military stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, on Navy ships. I think this is an excellent project and wish them all success. I know it’ll be appreciated; after reading ginmar’s blog about all the closet Buffy fans in Iraq begging to…
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I am so totally Sir Bedevere. The “construct large badgers” part is especially spot-on as character assessment. They are quite useless and don’t look remotely badgerlike, however. They resemble large piles of unfolded laundry more than anything else. The quiz was making the rounds of the TWOP / Amazing Race Meet Market board, so naturally I had to come up with the stupidest answer. Everyone else got to be the killer bunny or King Arthur or that fop Lancelot. Me, I have to lift my completely useless facemask thingy in order to say anything of the least consequence, which is…
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Well, this is the big news: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bryson wins £10,000 science prize but I think I envy Bill Bryson more for getting to live in a small village in Yorkshire (for a while, at least – it’s not clear if he returned there from his stay in the States). I need to read more of his books as soon as possible.
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Holy Crap! We’ve GOT to go to the Browncoat Ball! They’ve got a Captain Tightpants competition, too. Hmm.
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Barack Obama appears in the third hour of Al Franken’s show on AAR today.
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Listening to KUNC‘s music webcast – they’re playing a lot of Ray Charles’ music just now. Sounds good. It helps. (Why do I listen to a Colorado station? That goes back to a trip with David in 1995. Don’t worry about it. Just listen.)
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Sci Fi Wire — The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel>Cartoon Network is developing an expanded version of its Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series, Variety reported. The network and Lucasfilm will create five new 12-minute Clone Wars segments, expanding on the original three-minute toons, the trade paper reported. Okay, that makes the fact that the third (actually sixth) installment of Star Wars less “meh” for me. Far less meh, in fact.
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Richard Dean Anderson, the star and an executive producer of SCI FI Channel’s original series Stargate SG-1, told SCI FI Wire that he has reduced his shooting schedule in the upcoming eighth season, but not necessarily his appearances in the show’s episodes. Speaking in an interview on the show’s Vancouver, B.C., set, Anderson (Jack O’Neill) said that he has reduced the number of days he shoots in Canada to allow him to spend more time at his home in Southern California, where he cares for a 5-year-old daughter. Nice for him. Maintaining radio silence with difficulty on one of my…