Idoru. Really.

I love you Hatsune. I LOVE YOU!

BRUUUUUCE!

You know I love me some Bruce. BRUUUUUCE!



Ah ... slightly different Bruce than you may have been expecting.

AOTS v Twilight

Because it makes me laugh. Every time.

Okay, Back ...

... and squeezed a little break into the sorta-hiatus. Positano, with an iPhone camera, of all things. Surprisingly nice lens.

And a funny little essay about the town by John Steinbeck. Who you don't, honestly, think of as always that funny.

Jetwing Action

So this is what it's like to be Supeman ...

Jeb Corliss wing-suit demo from Jeb Corliss on Vimeo.

Blog HIATUS

Due to an overwhelming deadline and some family obligations, this blog will be spotty at best for the next two weeks. There may be some posting, but hopefully we'll be fired up again in mid-October with the rest of the Leverage ep write-ups and some new media analyses. Thanks for bearing with me.

Jesus Murphy, I Hate the Senate

I mean, not as much as I hate the Electoral College, but it's almost a tie now. They may be pulling ahead.

Feel free to either agree with me or remind me that the Founding Fathers were alien infallible Supermen in the Comments.

4GM Media in Action.

Bill Cunningham over at Pulp 2.0 has actually been doing all the things I've been theorizing about with new media. The first novel his company's published, the vampire blaxploitation horror novel Brother Blood, is out on Kindle. If groovy 1960's horror is your thing, Brother Blood's got your swing.




Also of note, of course, is J.A. Konrath's adventure in Kindle publishing. He's leveraged an existing print reputation into a great online business. People like that, as I've mentioned, are going to be the leading edge of new media -- tinkerers with an established base in the old media.

Where do you think media distribution is going? What are the obstacles? Sound off in the Comments.

"Look at Your God. Now Look at Me."

Here, courtesy of BoingBoing.

Yes, that Guy on the Phone is OFFICIALLY annoying.

Via Frontal Cortex, a study showing that it's harder not to listen to one person on a phone, doing half a conversation, than two people. It actually degenerates your ability to perform tasks.

This is somewhat related to a minor phobia of mine. I bought a ridiculously tiny Bluetooth phone headset that I really like -- and almost never use, because I'm always subconsciously aware that passersby may not see the earbud and assume I'm mad.