Battlestar Galactica wins Peabody
Apr 07A belated, brilliantly re-imagined revival of a so-so 1970s outer-space saga, the series about imperiled survivors of a besieged planet has revitalized sci-fi television with its parallax considerations of politics, religion, sex, even what it means to be “human.”
Also picking up an award were House, The Shield, and South Park. Oh, and some reporters.
We Could Be Heroes
Apr 07I’m trying to take a break from stressing over whether or not The CW is going to pick up Veronica Mars (last night? So good!! But poor Mac…I think you should go for George-Michael Bluth, Mac!) and actually look at some of the shiny new pilots currently casting and/or in production. So far, one of the most promising geekly offerings is Heroes, an ordinary-folks-with-superpowers deal.
Check it — there’s a bunch of info on the show over at TV.com.
My reaction so far:
Greg Grunberg = Yay!
Milo Ventimiglia = Boo! (though I do like you better than that Logan douchebag, Milo.)
The story could have covered more ground, Xeni.
Apr 07But then, she’s not promoting comics as a whole, just certain comics. Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has a thing for promoting the work of her comic friends (cool) – in this case, her pal Matt Fraction has a comic, Five Fists of Science coming out, which is a more adventurous take on Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison (who is the bad guy, if I understand correctly.)
If she’d been a true comic nerd, should would have also recommended Tales From the Bully Pulpit, in which Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison travel through time and space fighting Nazis, Martians, and Nazi Martians.
Then there’s JLA: Age of Wonder, in which the iconic league characters are transposed over top the birth of the industrial age, with appearances by Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. The two-parter covers a lot of deep waters, looking at progress and its relationship to war, social unrest, and why Lex Luthor has no hair.
Me – picking up where Jardin left off, since… well, now.
Call Jerry Bruckheimer!
Apr 07I don’t wanna miss a thing!
Study finds two supermassive black holes spiraling toward collision
A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
It's-a him, Mario!
Apr 07Anybody else dripping with excitement over New Super Mario Bros.?
Release date was 5/15, then 5/22, and now seems to be back to 5/15.
Whatever gaming nonsense I occasionally get myself wrapped up into, I always seem to return to the Mario side-scrollers. They’re just my style. So a brand new one, with 3D graphics, on the DS? I’m SO there.
