Jodi’s recent banning from some kind of alleged racist message board is discussed at great length in her post (and the comments appended to it) titled In Defense of the White Boy. I’m not going to get into my opinions of the specific case, but just say that I’ve been frustrated with the kind of thinking that runs behind this. Young guys, mostly, who like to think themselves political, strong, militant, and so they get all vocal about racial issues without thinking, without reasoning, without seeing that what they themselves have adopted is racism. I think people have a right …
Category: REVIEWS
The Weird World of Coming Entertainment
Japundit on smell-o-vision being introduced to Japanese cinemas. Let’s hope a few cinemas remain free of this for those of us with respiratory problems, like me. And Marginal Revolution on two new trends: Want to play video games against your pet? And how will online availability change TV?
I’d pay to see this, I think…
Gorehound Canned Film presents ‘WORST CASE SCENARIO’ via Shaved Ape Chronicles (who would also pay)
Where To Download Movie Trailers
After spending some time looking for a useful video clip with a nerd depicted in it, which was long enough to have students pick out ten physical, verbal, gestural, or other traits that marked a character as a nerd, and realizing this was frankly impossible within the DVDs I have in my own collection, I realized that the perfect medium would be a movie trailer for a film about a nerd. After searching in vain for a long time for a place where I could actually download the trailer files themselves (it’s better not to be dependent on streaming media …
eclexys » Tunes (with me in ‘em)
Seeing that Dabang Band CDs seem to be all sold out, and seeing that as far as I know, we have no outstanding legal responsibilities to Cavare (the label for the Product CD, who’s never disclosed how many CDs sold or how much money was made, or any other contractual stuff since the contracts were signed and disappeared) I’ve gone ahead and updated this site’s “Tunes (with me in ‘em)” subpage to include all tracks from the first two Dabang Band CDs. I’m going to confirm with the other band members and then if they’re okay with it, release it …
Writing Science Fiction During the Third World War
The sorta-dead The Infinite Matrix has Eleanor Arnason’s great speech/essay on the subject. Worth a read, and look around there while you’re there.
James Morrow | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly
James Morrow on Intelligent Design: Intelligent design theory is technically a different beast from creationism, because its advocates do allow that natural selective pressures may have shaped the destiny of the primordial—supposedly exogenous—organic molecules. The apostles of ID do not automatically dismiss the possibility of the modern horse emerging from the eohippus through evolution. They would even argue that the intelligent designer is not ipso facto the creator-god of Christian revelation, though it’s obvious they’re sponsoring him for the job. For my money, the whole enterprise should not be called intelligent design theory but rather IDIOT—Intelligent Design Implicit Onto-Theology. ID …
A Coupla Films
Let’s see, what have I watched lately? A Sound of Thunder. I can’t say it was all bad. I mean, those primate/reptile predator critters were pretty cool. Imaginatively conceived preadtory megafauna, yeah, I like it. But the film was also chock full of almost-good-enough CGI that, well, frankly, just wasn’t quite good enough. But what bothered me more about this movie was what it has with so much other TV/film SF: the science comes last, if at all, and the Wow, cool! concept comes first. Except that the Wow, cool! concept isn’t so cool, and doesn’t make me go wow. …
Englishie Movie About Korean Royalty
Apparently a co-production between a US and a Korean film company is set to make a dramatic film about Julia Mullock, the woman who married the last crown prince of Korea. The film is supposedly going to be a “mainly English-language feature”.
오예, 베이비!
The title of this post is “Oh Yeah Baby!” written in Korean. It’s something I once taught some kids at one of those camps I used to work every summer and winter in Jeonju. Hearing tons of kids laughing and teasing one another on the bus and then following up with, “오예, 베이비!” — in fact they were saying it in English but with the cutest little accents — brought me such joy. It’s a happiness comparable to what I feel right now, having just heard that it’s very likely I will, in fact, be able to attend the Clarion …