If you have any doubt why people speak Berni Wrightson‘s name in tones of awe, check out these images from the Frankenstein portfolio he did back in the 70s: That’s just a detail from one image. You can see the rest over at Golden Age Comic Book Stories in these posts: one, two, three, and this discussion of background and… Read more →
Month: June 2007
I guess it had to happen…
Yes, the word is: …along with his brother and former co-director Paul, Chris Weitz is going to take on the biggest fantasty-literature property as yet untouched by movieland: Michael Moorcockâs Elric saga. While I’d love to see Hollywood’s version of the Dreaming City, Arioch, and even of the Runeswords, I think making this as a special effects extravaganza will miss… Read more →
Let me get this straight…
…some business man GOP party chairman can sit in Arkansas and call for more attacks on American soil in order to swing people behind Bush and the war in Iraq, and never realize what his realpolitik notions mean in terms of actual lives. Meanwhile, soldiers actually in the field get it. Grrr. Read more →
He’s not Stewart…
…but Rick Mercer is probably the funniest current events comedian we have here in Canada. I got a chuckle out of his recent From The Desk of Stephen Harper bit. Here’s one little bit: 4. Open and Accountable government. Yes the catch phrase open and accountable will not go away. We are prepared to use it every day and every… Read more →
Learning from porn.
In certain applied sciences, and engineering disciplines, it’s a kind of basic truth that the money and push for research comes from military applications. Indeed, in many areas you can look at what the military is developing now and with a little creative foresight you can have a sense of what street level technology will be like in a decade… Read more →
Breaking The Silence
I am really going to have to look more seriously into the power of Spreadshirt. I wish I could think of a pithy phrase that encapsulated the “Martha Stewart did two years straight up, and you couldn’t even do 4 days–Martha would make you her bitch” idea. Read more →
