During my time at the Herald & News over in Klamath Falls – my first newsroom gig – my then-editor called me into his office. I entered, we talked, I rose to leave. I spotted a copy of “Where the Wild Things Are” on the edge of his desk and picked it up. “I love [...]
I want to talk a little bit about Same Team Conflict today, and it concerns two key milestones in comic book cinema to be released in the coming months. What is Same Team Conflict? I’m glad you asked. Consider the presidential primaries; a group of men and women with allegedly similar opinions and ideas on [...]
Here’s the thing: if you can’t grasp just how awesome it is that filmmaker James Cameron performed a solo dive seven miles down into the Mariana Trench, it’s very unlikely we’re going to be friends. Cameron, whose visual blockbuster super-hits include “Avatar,” the first two Terminator movies and the high school relationship ender “Titanic,” took [...]
There’s a bubbling undercurrent of insanity that’s been churning in Hollywood and bookstores across America. Refreshingly, it has nothing to do with the Kardashians or teen vampires. It concerns something much more original and layered, a craze that’s been building for 15 years and counting. Fantasy and science fiction writer George R.R. Martin started it [...]
We’re trying something new. And it has little to do with news. This attempt at said something new could be viewed in a variety of ways: desperate, innovative, charming, unnecessary. I choose to look at it in a much more tone-neutral way: experimental, maybe. Speculative. This is only a test. We – i.e. myself, Mail [...]
My wife said she wanted to see “Contagion” when we first saw the preview a few months ago. She nudged me at the trailer’s conclusion, gave me that typical moviegoer nod and thumbs-up that’s supposed to mean “That looks good.” It’s a movie about a full-blown epidemic disease that strikes without mercy at an all-star [...]
Hey. You. The person who treats Wikipedia’s content as Gospel. This is for you. I’m assuming you’ve heard about the encyclopedic service going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill making its way through Congress intended to wholly remove websites that are viewed as circumventing copyright law in one way or [...]
I never wanted to be any of the following: -A Greek god -A vigilante cowboy -A Crusades knight damned to Hell -A space miner who can’t catch a break from space zombies -A gun-crazed widower with a chip on his shoulder -Batman OK, so I lied on that last one. The above list is simply [...]
I started today off a little bit heartbroken. Just a smidgen. Not the waking-up-hours-after-a-break-up type. The band-you-love-most-in-the-world-said-farewell-to-its-lead-singer type. Killswitch Engage, a Boston, Mass., based metalcore band has parted ways with its lead singer, Howard Jones, after seven years, according to an article on the Roadrunner Records website. A statement from the band read thusly: “We [...]
Each year at Christmas, the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracks an unusual airborne target around the world. And now you can, too. Using Google Earth, the Colorado Springs-based military operation posts Santa Claus’s activity here. There are also highlights from the Jolly Old Elf’s 2010 run, games, videos and historical information about NORAD’s yearly [...]