The History of Pop Culture, Bayeux-stylee
We are not quite sure what this site is about, but it seems to have something to do with Russian Folk Art and popular filmed entertainments.:
PIRATES II: The death of Hollywood
My one word review of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST:
Exhausting.
Not good. It was so not good that it made me wonder if we will ever see a great studio action movie...
Butler, Campbell converge on Saturday SDCC; Beat reeling
Saturday all hell breaks loose!
Mark Waid! The Wayans Brothers! Oni! Damon Lindelof! GERARD BUTLER! Bob Burden! Kazuo Koike! Mary Fleener! Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, and Forry Ackerman together! Roger Langridge! Yoshihiro Tatsumi! Jon Favreau!...
Reitman on Super Sex
MY SUPER EX-GIRLFRIEND director Ivan Reitman sounds off on how superhumans might be able to mate with normal humans:
What goes on in the bedroom between a normal guy and a superwoman in My...
Felipe Smith’s shoe quest
MBQ by Felipe Smith has been one of the most critically acclaimed of Tokyopop's OGM, or OEL or whatever they are calling them. A multi-culti look at life in Los Angeles, it's sharply observed,...
A Pirate’s life for me!
We got a bit of flack in the comments yesterday for saying that Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride is superior to the WDW version. Look, we're not trying to stir up FL vs...
End times: comics broach last demographic group
Over at Comic Foundry Tim snaps a shot of a middle-aged woman reading a Virgin comic on the subway.
This may be a short-lived phenomena, however, as everyone knows that in NYC old ladies take...
Warners vs John K: has YouTube jumped the shark?
WIRED mag founder and search engine blogger John Battelle writes of yet another kerfluffle with visionary animator John K. It seems that the WB doesn't want YouTube linking to old WB cartoons:
John Kricfalusi, creator...
It’s a new day
We're really digging the new set-up, here, and it's awesome to see so many old pals showing up in the comments! We forgot so many folks were reading this here blog. In fact, we...
Oeming’s Heroes Con movie
Emerging filmmaker Mike Oeming has made a Heroes Con movie using stills and loud music. Watch it if you dare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTfPJAOcJE
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits
Steven Grant has a very lucid view of Anime Expo:
I noted this when I last attended, a couple of years ago. It has only amplified. If one element overwhelms you at Anime Expo, it's...
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ride update
While the world worries about the Reds' Rocket Dare, and what really killed Ken Lay, there is really only one topic keeping us up at night us here at Stately Beat Manor: what is...
