HOLY FUCK!

Walt Disney Buys Marvel Comics for $4 billion!

Actually the first thing I thought of was, 'hey, that means they're going to close Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal Studios'. That's like Graceland to my people. On the other hand - Super Hero Land at Walt Disney World! YES! ... In like fifteen years maybe ( Read more... )

Fellow bibliophiles! The latest from Thomas Pynchon is out: Inherent Vice, set in the swingin' surfin' psychedelic '60s Los Angeles. That's like what - two books in three years? Rumor has it he's trying to get as much as he can out of his notebooks and onto bookstore shelves before the man himself dissolves into his own Pynchonian otherverse, and I ( Read more... )

Fellow bibliophiles: the Ravenor Omnibus is out! Visit author Dan Abnett's funky website here: http://www.danabnett.com/

Giving a try to EVE Online! It piqued my interest after Morgan Webb compared it to the MMORPG equivalent of college-level algebra (well, that and when I read on Gamasutra ( Read more... )

One night a few weeks ago my roommate Jeff caught me watching a Babylon 5 DVD, and as a result, since then he and I have been going through the entire series from beginning to end. It's fun to have a fresh set of wide, awestruck eyes to re-experience the show with yet again, but he has this... annoying... little... habit (well, actually it's pretty ( Read more... )

Guy Ritchie's 2009 Christmas Present to the World! *_* Or at least to me.

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Thanks for the link, tdj! Even though you're a little skeptical, I appreciate that you're not hatin', you're participatin'. ... To which I guess I could have said I was 'appreciatin'. BUT I DIGRESS.

Speaking of movies, me and Roommate Jeff watched my DVD of Outlander last ( Read more... )

From comics queen cissie_king, AICN has a fantastic interview with the legendary Mark Waid (and when I say "fantastic" I mean he names names):

The Man Who Broke the Internet (along with Mike Wieringo)

Among other interesting tidbits, this one jumped out at me:
"[Bill Jemas, former President of Consumer Products, Publishing, and New Media at Marvel ( Read more... )

I think I have this straight - Livejournal was created in 1999 by some dude, who formed an operating company called Danga Interactive. In 2005, Danga Interactive was acquired by a company called SixApart, who later sold Livejournal in 2007 to a Russian company called SUP. SUP waited a year or so before cutting their American staff and moving ( Read more... )

At a recent social event involving brotherriparius and his sidekick ornithorhynque (though I'm fully prepared to acknowledge it may be the other way around), you know, stuff happened, but ultimately the important thing in all that fribbity-frab was that I received numerous compliments upon my wardrobe, both on the day of said event (the phrase "you clean up good" came up more ( Read more... )

I bought this new computer, see, and re-discovered my love of PC games (particularly a wonderful gem called Marvel: Ultimate Alliance), and when that got old, I re-discovered my love of Guild Wars, so you know, the past few months from a computing perspective have been kind of a beautiful, inscrutable multi-colored blur. I will therefore attempt to ( Read more... )

Work's been so crazy that I come home and flop into bed, then wake up the next day and do it again. There is a sea of misconnected luggage just out the door stretching for about a quarter mile. It's like I work in a luggage factory. Yay holidays!

Anyway, lord_darkseid recently posted the best movie trailer of all time. I mean the BEST. LD's looking forward to ( Read more... )