Question:
Speaking of keeping your artistic vision intact, how are you going to approach your upcoming adaption of Ronald Dahl's "The Witches" given that his books are very dark and there is going to be a lot of pressure to make it more child-friendly?

Answer:
Have you seen Pan’s Labyrinth? (Laughs). We have Guillermo del Toro writing and directing ( Read more... )

This is a note from a class I just came across, it's an illustration of how awesome my prof is.

"When is an award of damages excessive?  When it shocks the conscience of the court!  (As in, drop your robes, stick your fingers in your ears and run around shouting, I don’t know, I don’t know.)"

Thank you, Professor Popper.

I didn't write any of these, but I laughed at every single one of them.  Thanks to Rachel.

Two antennae met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony
wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.

A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'll serve you,but don't start anything."

Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a ( Read more... )

Do you wake up in the morning and think, "Wow, I just can't relate to the Seven Wonders of the World anymore.  I mean, what the hell is the the Colossus of Rhodes?!"  Well, there's now a group that can help.

The New 7 Wonders Society is that group!  The group is made up of historians who feel the original Seven Wonders of the World are outdated.  ( Read more... )

That's the question a German attorney wants to bring to the court system.

"A German lawyer hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens.

"There's quite obviously demand for legal advice here," Jens Lorek told Reuters by telephone on Thursday. "The trouble ( Read more... )

Has Jon Stewart sold out?  I'd like to actually have a conversation on this.  Tonight, I'm watching it right now, Jon Stewart had on his show Pat Buchanan, infamous right wing idealogue.  Pat was on to discuss his new book, "State of Emergency: the third world invasion and conquest of America".  It seemed to me like Jon tried to give Pat a fair ( Read more... )

This is what happens when I move, things like to follow me.  For instance, I moved from Florida to DC.  A weak hurrican/tropical storm rolls through Florida, causing little to no damage.  My family makes out absolutely fine, lights don't even flicker.  The storm keeps going, smells a Floridian where he's not supposed to be and decides to make ( Read more... )

I just saw this on Yahoo! and I think it's about damn time.  The leader of the FLDS (Fundamental Church of Latter Day Saints) was arrested last night in Nevada.  Jeffs has been on the FBI Top 10 now since May, and has been wanted by Utah/Arizona for even longer than that.  If my documentary watching memory serves me right, he's been on the run now ( Read more... )

This was on Countdown tonight, and I think Keith Oberman did a fantastic job with it.  It is a little biased, which Keith addresses at the end, but it's something that I can overlook pretty easily.  Anyways, I thought I would post the link to the clip here and anyone who wanted to watch it could.

The story Keith does here is a correlation between ( Read more... )

So on John Stewart tonight they had Dale Earnhardt, Jr. who had this to say about become a race car driver (which he does not consider a real job).  "I was basically too lazy to work and too scared to steal."  Just fantastic ( Read more... )