The Guardian lists the 40 best directors and is fairly good. David Lynch should be swapped with David Cronenberg, however. Also, Ridley Scott is missing from the list (he ought to be somewhere between 30 and 40), and Peter Jackson’s absence is wholly inexplicable.
Author: Bryant
Handy Democratic primary link of the day: Poll Roundup, from a Daily Kos denizen’s diary. There’s a clearer but less detailed version here.
Neil Gaiman, co-creator of Medieval Spawn, made some provocative comments recently. (Scroll down through the rest of the mail till you get to the bit where some fanboy yells at Neil for holding up new Medieval Spawn merchandise.)
Todd’s currently appealing the jury verdict to the 7th Circuit court of appeal. I thought it would be simpler for everyone if I waited until the appeal was done and the jury decision was confirmed before licensing out Medieval Spawn toys, statues, games, comics, novelty condoms, or whatever.
I’m not sure how I’m “hurting the fans” by not doing anything until then. But I can assure you that when the jury decision is confirmed I will happily license out Medieval Spawn to anyone who wants to use him for anything at all, astonishingly cheaply. And of course Todd will get his 50%.
Woo hoo! Free/cheap licenses for Medieval Spawn! I wonder if Angela’s gonna get the same treatment?
The most interesting thing on television today is the 30 hour Senate debate on judicial nominees. It’s not going to change a thing either way, but both the Democrats and the Republicans are tossing their best speakers up there to chew up time and sling rhetoric. Good for those fascinated by process.
Mom, who has informed me that she is not to be referred to as “a family member” anymore, is doing good. (“But Mom, it was for privacy… oh, OK, fine.”) The surgery went well and she’s recuperating as quick as she can, although it’ll still be a while. If anyone feels inspired to send a card, I’m sure she’d greatly appreciate it:
Priscilla Durrell
c/o Cape Cod Hospital
27 Park Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
She’s in the ICU for a couple of days, after which she’ll be back in the normal ward to keep healing up. She also thanks (as do I) everyone who sent kind thoughts.
Mike Sullivan’s Magipunk concept is deeply cool and I want to play in it. GMs, take note.
I’m going to miss Monday Mashup this week (and be light on general on blogging). A family member is in the hospital with something fairly serious and I a) can’t focus on blogging and b) don’t have as much free time anyhow.
Because when it comes to terrifying home exercise marketing material, nothing beats the Gazelle Power Plus. I don’t even know where to start with that picture, other than observing that it caused me to break my self-imposed restrictions on low humor.
“You’ll believe a man can fly!”
Now, this feels good. It is my great pleasure to — well, let’s be honest, to brag — that I will be in Austin, Texas on the weekend of December 5th to attend Butt-Numb-A-Thon 5.
It’s a 24 hour movie marathon, programmed by Harry Knowles. I made it to the second one after reading the report on the first one, and I had a hell of a time. I was sad to miss number 3 and I was mournful about missing number 4.
But I made the cut for BNAT 5. Can’t even begin to express how pleased I am. 24 hours of new movies, old movies, weird movies, freaky movies, and bad movies. A chance we’ll see Return of the King.
It’ll be the second geekiest thing I do all year (hey, I went to GenCon), but it’s gonna be a great time.
Not a lot of interesting new filings in White Wolf v. Sony this week. Lots of paperwork to get all the lawyers accepted in the court. The only real scrap of interest (and it’s only tangential) is the joint certification of interested persons, which lists those people who are either a) a party to the action or b) have a financial interest or other interest which could be substantially affected by the outcome of the case.
a) White Wolf, Inc.; White Wolf Publishing, Inc.; Nancy A. Collins; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Lakeshore Entertainment Corp.; and Screen Gems, Inc.
b) Stewart and Stephen Wieck; Mark Rein•Hagen; Sony Corporation; and Subterranean Productions, LLC.