I don’t mind sharing geek culture with the masses, but I find it difficult to explain (even to friends) how weird it is to see “Watchmen” stuff everywhere. It’s like, my adolescent fever-dreams have escaped to manifest themselves as novelty keychains, or collectible limited-edition coffees. Thankfully Bully, the little stuffed bull, eases my pain with […]
I even spared you the joke about the “bitter aftertaste of Fred Motz nuts”
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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BlogFox Braindump!
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I don’t have a lot of insightful, funny, lengthy stuff to post, but rather a bunch of odds and ends that don’t lend themselves to lengthy discourse… hence – fear my braindump: Digital 21 gun salute for both Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban. Both spent a lot of time on islands. Both had unsucessful experiments […]
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Watchmen Updates – What’s that on the Horizon?
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Is it a settlement? No. Not quite. Lots of good updates on Watchmen lawsuit happenings over at Film Esq. – my favourite lawblog du jour. The Coles notes is that everyone who prophesied a quick settlement after the Dec 24th order (cough, cough) may want to take a mulligan. Fox appears to be going for […]
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Seriously, Who’s Watching the Watchmen Lawsuit?
December 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Dear Fox, Eat All the Dicks – Daniel O’Brien Like lots of other bloggers, I was shocked to come out of my post-Christmas turkey induced coma to the news, broken by Michael Sieply in the New York Times, that Twentieth Century Fox has succeeded in at least some of their lawsuit against Warner Brothers relating […]
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