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Legend of Korra
On the one hand, I'm very, very glad that the last word in Avatar: The Last Airbender won't be M. Night Shyamalan's atrocity. (Maybe they'll even start the live-action series anew, with a different director!) But OTOH, I'm a bit apprehensive about Legend of Korra. We know Aang is dead at the time of the story - he has to be, in order for a water ( Read more... ) -
Not ANOTHER one!
Works of fiction I really like tend to suffer one of two fates: They languish in relative obscurity, like Moacyr Scliar's The Centaur in the Garden or Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, or they achieve widespread appreciation and are then followed up by painfully bad sequels like the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies or, in the absolute ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
We knew it would be bad. And after the casting controversy, the director choice, the previews, we kind of knew it would be this bad. But it still hurts. With a RottenTomatoes score of 08%, The Last Airbender isn't exactly on my must-see list this summer. M. Night Shyamalan has brought his unique brand of antigenius to bear on the best television ( Read more... ) -
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets parody link
From the ever-awesome parodist formerly known as Molly J. Ringwraith.
In other news, it looks like I'm setting some sort of record for not updating. Is this LiveJournal becoming a DeadJournal? The Economist has this to say about that. Facebook is doing for blogging what e-mail did for correspondence - strangling it. Not that I can claim Facebook ( Read more... ) -
She was the best there was at what she did
Apropos of nothing except not having posted in a month and a half, a quick transformative work (click for larger):
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Sméagol diagnosed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535969/
With bonus probably-intentional Seven of Nine reference, yesss.
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New Rose Hotel
Finally, a William Gibson prediction comes true, more or less. Does that mean the Golden Gate Bridge will be a miles-long People's Park soon?
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One night in Calais
One train's very like another When you're stuck down under the Channel, brotherI like the way Rupert Giles' brother is just thrown in with a bunch of random passengers -- not that he's actually famous, I suppose, but wouldn't it be nice if nobody was? Or at least if the media didn't endlessly bombard us with tales of the trivia of the lives of an ( Read more... )
