Scorpy Alert!
Apr 13‘Scapers take note: the awesome Wayne Pygram, aka Scorpius, appears on tonight’s episode of Lost!
(A few small details about what he’s playing on Spoiler Fix, but don’t look if you don’t want to know — there are general SPOILERS for the eppy as well.)
Man, Lost is good at finding perfect geek god actors for the guest roles. I mean, Mira Furlan? Clancy Brown? Damn! How about a part for Armin Shimerman?
Return of the Grups
Apr 12What’s this? Within a week, I’ve come across two fairly mainstream uses of the term “grup” — yes, as in “grown-up,” as in Original Trek. First, the writer of this article used it to define a new breed of adult, also known as yupsters, yindies and alterna-yuppies. Then, April, Luke’s nerdy, kind of annoying plot device of a daughter used it on this week’s ep of Gilmore Girls.
Is “grup” the new hipster-nerd word (ie, used by people who fervently insist they are “nerds,” yet still know in their heart of hearts that they are way cooler than you)? Or perhaps merely the new insider nerd-cool word (ie, something nerds use to show they are in the inner circle of nerdiness — see also: frak, frell)?
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Apr 12Judd Winick has created a cartoon and no-one told me? It’s kind of like Buffy meets that Jackie Chan cartoon, only written by Winick, who writes some good stuff. I stumbled upon it by accident last Sunday. I may have to watch more. When the episodes have titles like “My Mind on My Mummy, and Mummy on My Mind” how can you NOT want to watch?
For those of you not in the know, Winick has written or does write a lot, A LOT, of comics, including Exiles, Batman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, etc. I started reading his stuff with Barry Ween, Boy Genius (awesome stuff – a must read) and Blood and Water, a really good vampire limited series for DC/Vertigo. Apparently he was on Real World, so he plays some small role in the Reality TVpocalypse, but his stuff is too funny to hold that against him.
WikiWikiWhack: Judd Winick, Barry Ween
Linkapalooza: Puke and Piss Edition
Apr 12Just an assload of links piling up, and they’re not getting any fresher, so they’re starting to stink.
Isotope Comics has some neat PDF previews up of some pretty good indie comics. Very worth a look.
Remember the fat kid with the lightsaber you watched online like three years ago? Boy, was that funny. Funny to the tune of several hundred thousand Canadian dollars? Not really.
Mike Sterling writes a funny comics blog which I enjoy daily, and also does a column about managing a comic shop for another site. His latest column has both puke AND piss in it.
The Russian mob is online.
Thor and his posse throwing down a wicked awesome insult rap.
Project 880, also known as James Cameron’s next movie, also known as a geek wet dream, may be moving forward. Is it lame to be excited about this? I’m excited about this.
CSI: Miami with vampires. That is one HELL of a pitch.
To the moon, Alice!
Apr 12That’s right–the MOON!
Well, an unmanned probe, anyway. In 2008.
Two cool things here:
1) It’s a mission to prepare for an eventual manned mission. If I can’t see dudes walk on Mars before I bite the big one, I’ll take walking on the moon.
2) The cloud of dust kicked up by the probe crashing on the moon should be visible to amateur astronomers. Never have I wanted a Toys R Us telescope more.
WikiWikiWhack: The Moon, Project Apollo
