Books
Famous Literary Drunks and Addicts.
Comics
Jonathan Ross to write Comic. [To anyone who saw him geek out on QI, this is good news.]
Sailor Twain. New, interesting looking web graphic novel.
Movies
Please Don’t Let Sam Worthington Play A Bad-Ass, Australian-Accented Dracula.
Mortal Kombat Gets One More Movie Chance. We Say No Fatalities, No Dice.
77 movie sequels currently in development.
Music
Politics
Australian censor board demands large-breasted porn-stars.
This is so fucked up (Continues here):
Laws restricting access to medical services are laws restricting access to medical services. They are not laws creating family talks, better worlds, or moral teenagers. They are laws creating restrictions to medical services, which people do not seek unless they need them. Laws creating restrictions to medical services are laws creating restrictions to services people need and need desperately. You can argue that the lawmakers had some kind of noble intentions in mind — I will not buy it, but you can argue that. But you cannot argue that once the law has been in effect and created an inability to comply, and yet remained unchanged. If this was a law about notifying parents, it would have addressed how to notify parents. If this was a law about how to seek a bypass, it would have addressed how to seek a bypass. Since it didn’t address either of those things, this is obviously a law about something else. You only get one guess about what that something else is.
The Religious Right and the Objectification of Women.
Unattainable Beauty: The decade’s biggest airbrushing scandals.
Science and Technology
Peter Serafinowicz on the iPad.
Why The iPad Is Crap Futurism.
A quick guide to the maxims of new media. Also:
TV
[I got 5 out of 5… how much did you get?]
Completely Different Things
Lunch notes from my permanent roommate (my wife).
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Sam WORTHINGTON? Come on! Even I think that’s an awful idea… (and you know I love seeing Aussies in Hollywood movies, Nicole Kidman aside) He’s only done one movie, and was reasonably mediocre at that. He’s not a character actor at all, he can probably do “average joe” but Dracula would be a bit of a stretch…
Why the hell not Viggo Mortensen? He’d be perfect!
He’s done two movies were he was reasonably mediocre: Terminator Salvation and Avatar. I think what he’s got going for himself are a good body and a pretty face… :)
Viggo Mortensen as Dracula would be awesome. Especially if he channels a bit of the Devil he played in The Prophecy…