Miller, Phillips, ZOMBIES win Scream Awards
Spike TV's inaugural SCREAM AWARDS, honoring all that is boyish, violent and gory in entertainment were handed out this weekend, although the show won't...
Linkage 10/9
§ This story from the New York Times on the diminishing appeal of animated films has been getting a lot of links, but it...
WEHT: EL MUERTO
Hey what ever DID happen to that movie version of the indie comic EL MUERTO starring Wilmer Valderrama? They were touting it at San...
Small Enterprise goes for Half Mil
There are many things you could spend a half million dollars on: diamonds, an aeroplane, a yacht, a dinky apartment in the East Village,...
More book banning thoughts
We'd like to take a moment to recognize our regular gallery of posters here at The Beat, and commend them for their insightful...
Weekend Update
Our gym now has "Cardio Theatre," small plasma TVs on most of the cardio equipment so you can turn your brain off while you...
Marshall, MO final notes
A few items that have drifted in over the day regarding the library cencorship story that everyone is tracking.
One of our correspondents notes...
Do you like Penguin Classics’ comics covers? — LINK FIXED
Over at Galleycat they are having a little survey about Penguin's recent comic-esque covers to the Classic series.
Go and let 'em know how...
Industry watch: WATCHMEN, Who wants to renew a reality show?
Director Zack Snyder talks about his planned WATCHMEN movie at Empire:
And despite widespread assumptions, Snyder isnât planning to update it from its Cold War...
Robert Anton Wilson – UPDATE
UPDATE: Boing Boing has a further report, saying that Wilson has enough money to live out his last few weeks, as reproducing a note...
BLANKETS and FUN HOME on hot seat in MISSOURI
A Marshall, Missouri woman has requested that FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel and BLANKETS by Craig Thompson be removed from the library shelves, because...
Real official 300 trailer up — YOW
The official 300 trailer is up and on our newish iMac monitor the high def version looks...whoa. Wow. Yow.
Yikes. We're speechless. Click on...
