For those of you not following my Twitter stream, I have just posted a short essay featuring my (bemusement/excitement/fascination) that Warren Ellis is writing G.I. Joe webisodes over at the C3 blog. The article also features Joss Whedon’s new project Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Check […]
When C3 was first booting up in 2005, our circle of students would speak wistfully of how the Internet could have saved Joss Whedon’s Firefly or Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency. Although both of those properties seem to be dead or at least comatose, their creators have each announced new Internet-launched properties. Last week the trailer […]
This weekend I’ve been continuing some old quests: regular readers will know that I’ve been working my way through the AFI’s top 122 movies list (the result of combining the Institute’s original top 100 list and its revised top 100 list – 22 movies were added the second time around). As of this writing I’m […]
Man, I gotta learn to pace myself. In addition to my own entry this morning, “On Maps and Legends,” I also posted two more essays on the MIT blogs: “WiiWare, PSN, XBLA and the Long Tail” on the GAMBIT blog and “The Dangerous World of a GPS That Does Not Exist” on the C3 blog. […]
Every now and then something crosses my inbox that makes my jaw drop. Sometimes it’s genius, sometimes it’s astonishingly crass, and sometimes it’s a combination of the two. This morning’s report from DVICE.com on the Mio Knight Rider GPS is definitely a category three jaw-dropper. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense. If you’re […]
This morning I finished reading Michael Chabon’s new collection of essays Maps and Legends (2008, McSweeney’s Books). I knew that I enjoyed Chabon’s work from the few essays and chapters of his I’ve read already, but this one really knocked it out of the park. An embarrassed confession: I have yet to finish reading The […]
Fuck. George Carlin was one of my all-time favorite comics. When I was in high school, my friends and I used to listen to Carlin and Denis Leary while we were out driving around. When you’re a teenager in the middle-of-nowhere Ohio, driving around listening to stuff is what you do. We’d drive to Akron […]
I never would have thought that I’d be hearing advice on the tranquility of anything from Uncle Warren Ellis, but there you go. Me, I enjoy traveling as well, except for the fact that I still feel like I’m paying penance for making a friend’s cousin miss her flight when I was a freshman in […]
Warren Ellis on SF magazine sales. I love this series of posts. Studio Tour: New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens. Nice digs. Kevin Smith and Tim Burton talk smack. I’d’ve pegged Burton for a comics fan. J.K. Rowling at Harvard. Alas, I missed the speech. Charlie Stross at The Guardian. “Novels are one of the few […]
For some reason, I have never been the sort to preorder games. No, let me start that again – for one of a number of possible reasons, I have never been the sort to preorder games. I blame my parents, and especially my Mom, for instilling in me two very fundamental psychology quirks. First is […]
