Aug 24 2006
From Yahoo via Bryan Fordham: Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
Aug 16 2006
Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre Check out these beautiful preview pages from the forthcoming Penguin Books classics series version of Jane Eyre. Darcy on the feature film she’s apparently making version of her graphic novel Gasoline: It’s an environmental movie about technology working with nature and it stars a family of witches in a …
Aug 13 2006
I just received a taped phone message from Samuel L. Jackson, imploring me to go see the forthcoming film Snakes on a Plane. A quick google search reveals that you can sign up pretty much anyone for a good old Mace Windu-style phone pestering via the everlovin’ interweb: http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/
Aug 10 2006
I’ve just returned from spending about five hours taking in the Masters of Comic Art exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum and I thought I’d post a few thoughts while they’re fresh in my mind: First off, I can’t imagine that there’s ever been a more jaw-dropping collection of original American comics art collected in …
Aug 09 2006
Did you know that there’s a World Cosplay Summit? From Wikipedia: Cosplay (????, kosupure?), a contraction (or portmanteau) of the English words “costume” and “play”, is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, or Japanese pop music …
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