Day: December 3, 2006

In response to spyderella’s post about books and libraries, qmrf writes:

What I really want is a Netflix-style queue, where I can have a few books requested for pickup every week, rather than only having the choice of requesting them *now* or else forgetting what I wanted.

In a better world, everybody would want one of these, and we’d have it.

I think this is a great idea. On the flip side of it, I’ve been thinking lately what I’d really like is the film equivalent of LibraryThing, something I could use to keep track of the movies I’ve seen, or rented, or own. Maybe it could pull cover images from the Internet Movie Database like LibraryThing pulls from Amazon…

Because I really like having an easily accessible catalog of the books I’ve read in a year. Ever since I stopped writing short reviews, I no longer have that for the movies I see.

It says something about me as a person, I’m sure, or about the significance that popular culture and television had in my life growing up, but I’m actually finding it a little weird to now discover that Peter Cullen, the actor who voiced Optimus Prime in the Transformers cartoon show also voiced Knight Rider‘s K.A.R.R..

I’m sure there’s crossover fanfiction potential written all over that.

Speaking of the Transformers, by the way, one could do a lot worse that to check out Jim Cleaveland‘s informative retrospective of the cartoon and comics series in this premiere issue of Kaleidotrope. I’m just saying.

I’ve seen an episode or two of Monk, but I don’t really watch the show, so it’s only by accident that I found out about this: on December 22, they’ll be showing an episode in black and white…followed immediately by the same episode in color. Viewers can then vote on which they like best.

I think it’s official. Television has finally run out of stupid and pointless gimmicks.