The threat of a work stoppage in baseball is a real one. To many of us fans, we see the players and the owners racing towards another season without a world series. We want to make some sort of statement, some sort of action that might be used as leverage to get the two sides […]
From Instapundit:TODAY’S CLONING HEARINGS are addressed in The New Republic.My first thought after reading that blurb was “No, I don’t want to read this until I’ve seen the movie tonight”…Then I realized that it had nothing to do with the latest Star Wars film… I am way too hyped up about seeing “Attack of the […]
The one thing I turn to first in any newspaper is the Opinion & Editorial pages.I have been disappointed to see that the Portland Press Herald now only has a single op/ed page on Saturdays. So imagine my disappointment when yesterday’s PPH opinion page had a silly article about singing along with the car radio.Turmoil […]
Max Power has a few gripes about the Spiderman Movie.Not about the comic book science. Not how the movie changed Spidey’s web spinners from a mechanical device to a biological part of his powers.No, he’s worried about legal issues involving corporate takeovers portrayed in the film…I guess we’re all geeks about something…
There’s a reason I invoked Jack Kirby’s name in reference to the so called “Stan Lee Plan” in an earlier post.Stan gets far too much credit for the creation of the classic Marvel Comics characters when many others, most notably Jack Kirby, were just as deserving of the credit. Much of this was due to […]
Dennis Miller is called up by the Wall Street Journal to apply a Fisking to Norman Mailer. I miss Dennis. In the span of a year he lost his job on Monday Night Football (understandable, considering Madden was available), his show on HBO (It had a good run), and I don’t think I’ve heard his […]
Where does Bob Dylan stand on the Middle East? I can’t speak for his current thoughts, but read the lyrics to “Neighborhood Bully”, from his 1983 album “Infidels”( via Daimnation! )
I’ve caught a couple of good articles in the April 29th issue of the trade magazine “Network World”First is a look at the new royalty fee structure for internet radio broadcasters. It’s Scott Bradner’s Net Insder column titled Subscription only?The article shows a bias towards simulcasts of broadcast stations, which pay the royalty fees at […]
The Merry Marvel Blogging Society marches on with the solution to the Middle East’s problems, “The Stan Lee Solution”I won’t give it away here, but here’s a hint: It doesn’t involve dropping the Gamma Bomb on Saudia Arabia.
This past Febuary “Bigwig” posted at Silflay Hraka about the seemingly foolish volunteers to be human shields, suggesting (tongue in cheek) something more calculated was going on…