Actual Time-Warner Cable ad received in email moments ago.
Continue ReadingTruly, it is a sign of the brotherhood of Con that Davy Jones and a stormtrooper can just kick back and enjoy a beer together. Then there’s this. Hoppy Easter.
Continue ReadingOn Ben Templesmith’s prolific and squid-loving Twitter stream, he suddenly decided to do horrorscopes, so as a public service, we represent the following: Aries: Don’t freak out much. You woke up today to find your nipples missing. They’ll be back tomorrow. Taurus: That smell coming from your neighbour’s house isn’t actually rising damp. It’s the [...]
Continue ReadingIf you were going into the end of the world in 2012, with a cold, empty feeling because Gilligan’s Island had not yet been turned into a feature film, rest easy: you will not be cast into the void unfulfilled. Co-producer Charles Roven previously worked on the GET SMART movie, so you know it [...]
Continue ReadingSince moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us all about it. But [...]
Continue ReadingSince moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us all about it. But [...]
Continue ReadingLast week, beat pal Jimmy Palmiotti shared the above link with us, and we enjoyed it mightily. And then we got to thinking about the days when Bollywood musicals and their rapturous innocence were a secret underground thing. You had to live near the Indian cinema or near an Indian neighborhood to even know about them, [...]
Continue ReadingThe Beat has a soft spot for THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU, okay?
Continue ReadingWe’ll be on the road for a few days for some semi-R&R. That means we’ll be blogging, and reading email but only for a few hours a day instead of all day all the time. Hopefully all hell won’t break loose again.
Continue ReadingWe didn’t want to link to April Fools Day gags, but Gmail’s is pretty damned funny.
Continue ReadingActually we used Duane Reade’s “Multi Eraser” knock-off, but either way, when your light switches are clean, you are clean. PS: Thursday is pretty anticlimactic without Lost. Sniff.
Continue ReadingYou just can’t. Check previous entries for even more breath-taking Wyeth goodness. Ah, far Selidor!
Continue ReadingHow is it possible? The heroine emerges from the underworld every time, no matter what the odds. Hail, Persephone. Note: Persephone not actually shown above. Results may vary.
Continue ReadingIn an interview with the San Jose Merucry News, Gene Wilder has solved one of the great mysteries of comedy: the origin of Frau Blücher and the horse whinny from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. That’s FRONK-en-steen. “I chose the name because I wanted an authentic German name,” Wilder, who played the part of Dr. Frankenstein and also co-wrote [...]
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