I admit it. I’m a sucker for This American Life. The second season of their television is starting, so in celebration here’s a link to a 2006 radio show with a theme worthy of the Gutter: “Superpowers.” (And here’s a preview of season 2).
Around the 5th time I read my nephew The Cat in the Hat, I started thinking. Sure, I might have been overthinking my thinker and overpuzzling my puzzler reading the book 15 times in half an hour and cutting it with The Cat in the Hat Comes Back!, […]
Fresh and toasty from the New York Comic Con, it’s the Venture Bros. season 3 promo with clips a-plenty! (thanks, tera!)
Andrew O’Hehir is here to tell you that Guillermo del Toro making The Hobbit–and a sequel to The Hobbit–for Peter Jackson is not a good idea.
A blogger got ahold of a network drive from Infocom circa 1989, which has the behind-the-scenes story — and a tiny playable demo — of the failed sequel to the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Universe, reconstructed from emails and other digital artefacts. Most of the text-game greats chime […]
So you’ve written a book that fits the current vogue perfectly – let’s say it’s a grimy cyberpunk novel in the mid-1980s – does that mean you’ve guaranteed long-lasting fame for yourself? Probably not. But don’t worry, a lot of your compatriots are suffering the same fate. Oh, […]