Category: IRL
The Ultimate Jedi Weapon
Robert Lusk, vice president of sales and marketing for Alienware, has been touting the high end computer manufacturer’s new Star Wars licensing deal in the press...
Free Comic Book Day!
Don’t forget that today is Free Comic Book Day! As part of an effort to raise awareness of and interest in comics, Diamond, the only serious distributor of them,...
Marvel Will Be Making Its Own Movies
Last week, Marvel finally settled with Chairman Emeritus Stan Lee over the royalties from the Spiderman movies and is now looking to produce its own movies. Marvel made...
Letting Our Hair Down for Prince Charming and the Beast
A researcher in London recently did a study where she suggests that fairy tales may end in horror. Graduate student Susan Darker-Smith’s thesis is that young girls...
Samsung’s SCH-n330 Rumble Game Controller Just Like a Car Crash Just Like a Dildo
Today, according to an excellent article Elizabeth Biddlecombe wrote for Wired about the sex toy potential of cell phones, the SCH-n330 mobile version of a rumble game...
May Day
On this day in 1886, nearly one million Americans went on strike in order to have an eight hour workday. Guess that didn’t last too well. I think we might already...
Don’t Panic
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy opens today. I keep telling myself don’t panic. I keep telling myself that Fight Club was a brilliant adaptation of a book...
Gothic Sluts Free Picture of the Day
My CFIDS tends to be worse in the summer time and this makes me more goth or at least more gloomy, so, as the long days of summer draw closer, let’s enjoy the...
Who is Kerry Conran?
Kerry Conran is a writer/director who came to Hollywood via an unconventional route. He was an avid fan of 1930’s science fiction serials. As an animation student...
Why Unions Are Not Always Good
The only wrinkle in the Sin City deal was that Frank Miller was to be given a co-director credit which Robert Rodriguez was fine with giving. The wrinkle part being that...
Teenage Kix Likes Sexy Fandom!
The Teenage Kix blog uses erudite language to describe teener porno to entertaining effect. Teenage Kix had this to say about Sexy Fandom, “Something else struck...
How Did We Get a Digital File from Robert Rodriguez?
There is an interesting and I hope not apocryphal story about how Robert Rodriguez convinced comic book auteur Frank Miller to allow Sin City to be committed to the...
