A court in New York has ruled that the 82-year-old creator of Spider-Man is due millions of dollars in unpaid profits from Marvel Enterprises for the success of the Spider-Man…
“Focus on the Family is up in arms about a music video created by the We Are Family Foundation that shows the popular porous cartoon character and several other kids’…
…why did I have to find this page? Argh. All the fan mixes of the “Waaaaasssuuup” commercial: including the anime and Star Wars versions. (reels away, clutching her head yet…
“My Poem: ‘The Maggot of Truth’ by Gothbat”
Like Neil Gaiman, I know next to nothing about finding agents (my own hunted me down shortly after I sold my first book, and I’ve been with him ever since),…
In an entirely unsurprising development, Pearson Education — a unit of Penguin USA — has sued the Little, Brown unit of Warner Books for a parody. That happens all the…
A funnier headline this time. But one that (bearing context in mind) really makes me wonder if I’ve accidentally fallen into the “Uncle” universe, since it’s exactly the kind of…
From Dave Langford’s inimitable Ansible this morning: CHAZ BRENCHLEY answered _The Bookseller_’s appeal for reports of people in the book trade who’d been arrested while going about their lawful business.…
I read Google News every morning before I start work, and occasionally a sentence jumps out at me and makes my jaw just drop. “Don’t cheerleaders all over America form…
I know perfectly well that the trouble caused by the local weather pales beside the impact of the horrific walls of water that overwhelmed southeast Asia. But I still wish…
Via Mark Evanier’s blog: on January 7th, Soupy Sales was formally awarded his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I was right in the middle of the generation that…
Skeletal systems of cartoon characters.
Unquestionably this. (reels away clutching her head)
Something very cool in the Washington Post today: Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental discipline and…
Something unusual happens in a number of European countries, mostly (but not all) German-speaking, on or around New Year’s Eve. The TV stations begin showing the same 20-minute comedy sketch…
…at least, it’s been doing so over the last month. Sorry for the absence: I’ll do better in January. Meanwhile, just a wish: may 2005 bring everyone who reads this…
29%. Every two-night miniseries experiences a drop-off on the second night. We had a 1.2% drop-off — not negligible, but not at all bad. Die Nibelungen therefore becomes: The highest-rated…
…via our buddies / production partners at Tandem. There was an informal “guessing pool” in the office as to what the first night’s ratings of Die Nibelungen on Germany’s Sat.1…
There are about four different SF novels implied by the first third of this article. To my mind, anyway. More perceptive readers will probably find even more…. “Moon gas may…
Insta-Snow.
Medical first: Rabies case treated without vaccination Jeanna Giese, 15, contracted the deadly virus when she was bitten by an infected bat at a church on September 12 and was…
…And so the famous “Black Turkey” recipe appears on the main page at Edibilia. (For those of you wondering where the “French Toast on Five Railroads” recipes went, they’re now…
After a high like the “Die Nibelungen” premiere, there often comes a brief letdown period. Work reasserts itself. The piled-up mail has to be dealt with. It starts to rain.…
“Forget the USA, Sri Lanka or South Africa; Ireland is the best place to live in the world”