The BBC issued a press release yesterday with information on Torchwood‘s second season. There’s not a lot that’s really new in it. The season’s major guest stars, really. A little bit about the role Martha Jones will play in the series. And the cast photo above. It’s going to be fab. 🙂
Monthly Archives: August 2007
On the Next Step in the “War on Terror”
The United States is going to go to war with Iran. It will happen. The noise machine is already working. It is going to happen. And there’s not a thing Congress can do about it now. Why? Because President Bush has designated Iran’s Republican Guard, their elite military force, a “global terrorist.” And the AuthorizationContinue reading “On the Next Step in the “War on Terror””
On My Thumbnail
Back in my college years an accident at work shattered one of my thumbnails. It grew back, sort of. Basically, at the the tip the thumbnail tends to detach from the nailbed, become fantastically painful, and then detach even more, sometimes nearly the whole of the thumbnail. It’s only within the past year that theContinue reading “On My Thumbnail”
On Mike Wieringo
Comic book artist Mike Wieringo died suddenly over the weekend. He was 44. Wieringo and I shared a birthday — June 24th. Not something I knew until today. Jack Dempsey, I knew that one. But not Mike Wieringo. I was familiar with Wieringo’s work only glancingly. I’d stopped reading The Flash not long before WieringoContinue reading “On Mike Wieringo”
On Karl Rove’s Upcoming Departure
First draft of history time — senior Presidential advisor Karl Rove will be resigning his post come the end of August. The President won’t have Turdblossom — Bush’s nickname for Rove — to kick around any more. I wish I could write that “It doesn’t surprise me to see Rove leave,” but I’d be lying.Continue reading “On Karl Rove’s Upcoming Departure”
On Halo 3 Pre-Orders
I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with this anymore — Halo 3 has reached over a million pre-orders in North America. Which means, knowing the video game industry and who actually does pre-orders, that it’s entirely EB Games and GameStop. Which means, knowing GameStop, that a solid third of the pre-orders are bogus.Continue reading “On Halo 3 Pre-Orders”
More on Ink and Paper
At work on Friday someone left a stack of a new magazine — Comic Foundry — at the magazine and comic rack. I picked one up, flipped through it, and shoved it in my bag to take home and look at over the weekend. The thing I noticed on Friday, though? The smell. Yes, theContinue reading “More on Ink and Paper”
On John Gardner
The novelist John Gardner, author of the James Bond novels of the ’80s and ’90s and two novels about Professor Moriarty, passed away about a week ago, on August 3rd. He was 80. Apparently, he had been in ill-health for about a year, suffering a mild stroke earlier in the year. I wouldn’t call GardnerContinue reading “On John Gardner”
On Being a Band
Okay, no frelling clue how I got this… What band are you? Led Zeppelin The father of Hard Rock Click Here to Take This Quiz Quizzes and Personality Tests Yeah, no idea. Don’t misunderstand. I like Led Zeppelin. I’ll listen to their music. But, yeah. Yeah.
On Seafaring LEGO Men
The ocean gives up its secrets. In the Dutch village of Zandvoort, the secret was… An eight-foot tall LEGO man. The eight foot tall smiling Lego man with a yellow head and blue torso was seen bobbing in the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort yesterday. LEGO men, lost at sea. Surely, this blueContinue reading “On Seafaring LEGO Men”