Sci-fi blocks surfers from the flipside of the equator. Booo!
Aug 01A few weeks back I posted about the Sci-fi Channel letting people watch the pilot episode of The Amazing Screw-on Head online. Well, a reader (we have readers? awesome!) has informed us that Sci-fi blocks Brazilian and Latin American surfers from watching – probably other countries.
As someone who’s on the wrong side of the border, according to Showtime at least, I know how much that sucks. However, leave it to YouTube to pick up the slack. Hooray!
My public radio is cooler than your's. (nyaaah!)
Aug 01CBC Radio (otherwise known as The Mother Corp, The Ceeb, and “not the BBC”) is holding a contest – entrants are being asked to take a small portion of Wagner’s The Ring (the Ride of the Valkyries bit) and remix it any way they see fit. Once the entries start showing up online, I’ll post the link.
AlertPal makes good
Jul 27I’ve known for awhile now that my friend Chris Woods was contacted by the production designers for Clerks 2 – they wanted to use some of his McTopia paintings as posters in the fictional Mooby’s fast-food restaurant.
One could be seen clearly in pre-release set pictures, but didn’t show up much in the final film – the other, well, it was right behind the prep counters, so it showed up all the time.
Here, see what I mean after the jump.
On the road again…
Jul 24Today, I sweat and I pack and I type at the moment. I also wait for Sarah to arrive with my San Diego swag.
Tomorrow, I leave LA and drive three or fourish days to Longwood, FL, where me and wife and baby will soon make home.
Anything, um, nerdy I need to see between here and there?
Videos!
Jul 23Too hot? It’s too hot here, otherwise I’d sleep. If you’re up like I am, how about some good stuff to watch? (these also function very well as a way to avoid work, come Monday.)
First up, Mike Mignola’s Amazing Screw-on Head has been turned into an animated show on SciFi. Paul Giamatti does the voice of Screw-on Head and David Hyde Pierce is awesome as Emperor Zombie. It’s very, very funny and very, very Mignola – all at once. Zombies. And best of all, SciFi is letting you watch the pilot episode online for free.
And in the human catagory, I’d like to direct you to a couple of friends of mine, who wrote, directed, and produced this fantastic comedy short called Hooped. It’s been a best kept secret in Vancouver for a few years, but thanks to iFilm and now, even better, YouTube, the world can see it for themselves – just don’t watch it at work with the speakers on. You WILL want to listen using headphones. Language prudes need not apply either.
