Links collected through the week...
Video of Robot Chicken writers playing DnD are up at wizards.com/dnd. It seems to be updating often.
To my knowledge, the Left hasn't nominated Avatar for any PHL-awards, but that doesn't mean teabaggers haven't latched onto James Cameron as an ideological enemy. (Avatar plus schools and Anderson Cooper are actually the only places my list and theirs don't overlap.)
Like all populists, tea partiers are suspicious of power and influence, and anyone who wields them. Their villain list includes the big banks; bailed-out corporations; James Cameron, whose Avatar is seen as a veiled denunciation of the U.S. military; Republican Party institutional figures they feel ignored by, such as chairman Michael Steele; colleges and universities (the more prestigious, the more evil); TheWashington Post; Anderson Cooper; and even FOX News pundits, such as Bill O'Reilly, who have heaped scorn on the tea-party movement's more militant oddballs. (2/9)
According to this, an insider on the set plus this picture predict that Chris Meloni is gonna put the spurs to Beecher at least one more time on SVU. Soon? (2/11)
Guy I don't know builds a conditional list on "which SF movie most plausibly depicts what the Earth will be like in the next few decades." He includes 2001, Blade Runner, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, Terminator and District 9. Of course, he's wrong, because the next few decades will be like Tron, except for all the computer world stuff. Which is deeply depressing, even though we could have done a lot worse. (2/12)
Yeah, Google *really* fucked up with the privacy issues of Buzz. They were trying to leverage all of the awesome, comprehensive services they provide into an overnight, sprawling social networking hub. They fucked up bad. (2/13)
I'm going to start another one of these to go up next Sunday. If contributers have anything to share, just click edit from the Edit Posts menu and add what you want.
This was a fun post since I am out of the loop on TV, I need to watch this law and order. Keep doing this.
ReplyDeleteI will, glad it worked.
ReplyDeleteI've already got a draft of next week's up, that I'll use as a running log through the week and finally post on Sunday. If you have anything to add to it, go ahead.