Month: June 2006

So I’m reading The Onion A.V. Club’s review of Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties:

As in the first film, Garfield spends way too much time boogying to the music of the Black-Eyed Peas, and the slang, catch-phrases, and pop-culture references here all passed their expiration date long ago.

And I’m wondering something I’ve wondered before: do the Black-Eyed Peas even still release albums, or just endorsement deals and merchandising tie-ins? I’ll admit, I don’t listen to much top 40 radio anymore, but the only time I ever see the Black-Eyed Peas* being advertised, it’s in conjunction with a Best Buy commercial, or a cell phone deal, or whatever. I never see promotions for the actual music.

Although that’s maybe not such a bad thing. After the travesty that was “My Humps,” it’s certainly understandable.

* Or Shakira

Slight update on my post of the other day about The New York Times and their deigning to sully their hands with horror fiction. I wrote the following brief letter to the editor last Monday:

What Terrence Rafferty seems to forget in his review column, “The Thinking Reader’s Guide to Fear,” is that vampires, zombies and poltergeists are often metaphors for disease, financial ruin, loss of love, etc. They are not simply pale attempts by lazy or immature writers at avoiding these heftier subjects. Horror fiction has no monopoly on “determinedly nonaspirational” prose. And while Mr. Rafferty may feel he needs to defend his reading choices, some of us just look for good books and be done with it.

Chances are nil that it’ll run now. On the other hand, Dave Itzkoff did finally return with a new science fiction column. There’s no lack of elsewheres where you can read about it. The general consensus seems to be along the lines of, “Well, it’s not as bad as his first one.”

I miss Gerald Jonas.

Sigh. Looks like it’s nothing but coal for this Fitzmas:

WASHINGTON, June 13 — The decision by a special prosecutor not to bring charges against Karl Rove in the C.I.A. leak case followed months of intense, behind-the-scenes maneuvering between the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, and Mr. Rove’s lawyer, according to lawyers in the case.

From today’s search referrers: “weird movie where kid child has to pee urinate in parent food time travel film”

Wow. That does sound weird. I’m no film historian or anything, but could it be The Leaky Bladder Baby in the Family Restaurant of Tomorrow? (Michael Bay’s finest work.)

Oh, and yesterday, when two of the top referrers were “attaching electrodes” and “chicken viscera”? I don’t want to know. Just take it elsewhere, okay?