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It’s as I always suspected: Twilight will kill you. Heaven knows Kaleidotrope contributor Genevieve Valentine isn’t a fan: The good news is that if you are seeing a Twilight movie to mock it, you’ll feast every time. The Fab Faux’s live cover of Abbey Road raises a really interesting question: what is the difference between a really great cover . . . → Read More: Wednesday various I think John Scalzi has it right about this health care bill that passed in the House yesterday: As such there was no real political or moral philosophy to the GOP’s action, it was all short-term tactics, i.e., take an idea a majority of people like (health care reform), lie about its particulars long . . . → Read More: Monday various So Yoko Ono only okayed the Citroën car commercial to keep Lennon in the public conciousness? That’s good, because before this, I’m sure many people were thinking, “John Lennon? Who’s that?” Another from the fine line between irony and hypocrisy department: Sarah Palin Crossed Border for Canadian Health Care. Why does she hate America? [via] Having just recently . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play. Well, maybe. Unless we can dig up Zombie Shakespeare, I think it’s still just conjecture. [via] Speaking of zombies, however, I’m not so sure I agree with The Guardian‘s contention that: No zombie is ever going to be a pinup on some young girl’s wall. Just as Pattinson . . . → Read More: Tuesday various There’s been a lot of talk recently about the new Beatles: Rock Band game. I don’t own any gaming platforms myself (aside from my computer), so I haven’t played it, but I still think its original trailer is simply stunning: Irene Gallo describes it as “crass commercialism wrapped up in awesomeness,” and I don’t think . . . → Read More: Friday Night Video So, a few months back, I spent an unhealthy number of hours coming up with fake Beatles facts on my Twitter account. It seemed like a fun idea at the time. Then this morning, I noticed that Bill Corbett was now doing it, too, this time using the more sensible — albeit longer — hashtag “fakebeatlesfacts.” . . . → Read More: I’m Happy Just to Tweet with You So I don’t know what you did all day, but I spent way too much time coming up with fake Beatles facts over on my Twitter account, when I wasn’t working on a student counseling book or attending presentations on magazine publishing. (I hate to jinx myself, but so far this week has bucked a recent . . . → Read More: A magical mystery tour de force? |
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