Thank you, Aaron.

OBAMA
I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.
BARTLET
Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.
OBAMA
Which was?
BARTLET
A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.
OBAMA
And?
BARTLET
I was.
OBAMA
I mean, how did you overcome that?
BARTLET
I won’t lie to you, […]

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For those of you on the European side of the water who haven’t seen it as yet: SciFi UK  is showing Sword of Xanten (this being the goofy name that Channel 4 in the UK, like a terminally confused fairy godmother, wished on The Ring / Die Nibelungen / Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King) this Sunday […]

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Srsly.
Now all we need to hear is that Hitler was somehow involved and we’ll have the perfect documentary pitch for The History Channel.
(It could have made a good Stargate SG-1 script too, but unfortunately it’s a little late for that. See, the Goa’uld started experimenting with re-evolved saurians as hosts, but then the Ancients…  oh, […]

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As described by Tim the Enchanter.  …But with more yarn. (Courtesy of AntiCraft)
(ETA: The Rabbit of Caerbannog has its own Wikipedia page. With lots of citations. Who knew?)
 
 
 
Tags: Monty+Python+and+the+Holy+Grail, death, rabbit, Tim+the+Enchanter, bunny

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— if Fox has its way? A federal judge has denied Warner Bros.’ motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox’s current lawsuit against it, claiming that Fox still owns rights in the Watchmen project dating back to the 1990’s. And the release of “Watchmen” is presently scheduled for March ‘09.
This one could get very messy. (Side […]

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So who else remembers that great line from the film Crazy People? It featured Dudley Moore as an off-the-rails, burnt-or-burning-out ad exec who is chucked into a psychiatric hospital and then winds up (with the assistance of some of his fellow patients, one of them played by Darryl Hannah) doing something absolutely unthinkable: basing print […]

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Here’s the announcement via MarketWatch.
Warner Bros. says they’re rescheduling “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” because summer releases are better for family-oriented “tentpole” projects, and because the Writers’ Guild strike of late ‘07 / early ‘08 has unpredictably changed the pattern of other studios’ film releases for ‘08 / ’09.
While those are both believable claims, you […]

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I’d been wondering in an idle way what was going on with the New Line / Tolkien family lawsuit when I stumbled across this link to a good LA Times article on the situation (in an LA Times blog entry that also referenced this equally good article about “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”). I must watch out for […]

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No, really.
Tags: anime, contact+lenses

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The Star Trek MMORPG is finally moving forward.
Yay!
Tags: Star+Trek, MMORPG

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Some days ago the thought occurred to me that the original story got very viral very quickly. Well, maybe there was a reason for that. Gawker puts forward their theory here…
Myself, I’ve been chuckling over the whole business since it started, as I have my own referent for monsters off Montauk. …For certain values of […]

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(Non-technically inclined people, look away now. Or skip down to the bottom of this where it gets less technical.)
I have a lot more screenplay stuff to do today, but I had to take an hour or so off from that after having a quick look at the “Out of Ambit” log files on arising, and noticing […]

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