Disturbing news for every right-thinking geek here, as Bryan Singer looks set to direct a big-screen ‘reboot’ of Battlestar Galactica, set to screen in 2011. Aside from the fact that if there was ever a word that gave me an insatiable desire to drown kittens then ‘reboot’ is it, this enrages me (and apparently a whole lot of other angry internet men) for two reasons: continue reading…
Funny how things balance out, isn’t it? For every yin there’s a yang; for every tin of Branston baked beans there’s a tin of those 3p ones you pick up at Lidl that resemble pebbly baby dragon shit; and for every new episode of the almighty Peep Show there’s an episode of How Not To Live Your Life on BBC Three.
In which I point out a selection of the best writing and news snippets from across the web for your mind-nourishment, and fail utterly to not link to anything related to videogames. (With apologies to Kieron Gillen for nicking his format. And jokes.) continue reading…
Maybe somewhat out of date this one, having first screened on FX in January, but I recently rewatched it on DVD, and it’s definitely worth tossing out a few hundred words. Why? Because Generation Kill is hands-down one of the finest television dramas of recent years. Yeah, you heard me. It’s up there with The Wire.
Those who remember this blog’s last incarnation (both of you) will recognise this full-length transcript of an interview I did with Dave for his last book – America Unchained – a fairly charming account of his search for non-corporate America. He’s an interesting chap, so I figure it’s worth re-posting. If I can find it you can also look forward to one with Martin ‘punchably nice’ Freeman, and possibly Jamie ‘Apollo from Battlestar Galactica’ Bamber, if I can ever work out where the tape went…
Mondays are for blearily wandering to your desk, lighting up a dirty Royal that you have no idea how you came to possess but happens to be the only thing smokeable around, and deciding you should really do something with that website you bought fuckages ago. What form said site is going to take is of course another matter entirely, but who cares about planning – after all, George Bush and his neo-con henchmen managed to invade the sovereign nation of Iraq without any plan for post-conflict reconstruction and security, and that turned out alright. Didn’t it?
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