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Don’t make a Gollum film make an animated Silmarillion anthology
Variety reports: “In a press release from Warner Bros. later Thursday morning, the studio revealed that the working title for the film is “Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” and it will be directed by and star Serkis in his iconic titular role.” https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-movie-2026-release-warner-bros-1235997102/ Serkis’s Gollum was great but he’s not enough to…
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Missing Moments of Movie History: The Maltese Falcon
Scheduling the star-studded cast of the 1941 classic to all be on set at the same time was compounded by none of the stars checking their Outlook Calendar or having reminders programmed on their smart watches. To cope with this, Timothy the Talking Cat would typically stand in for absent cast members during rehearsals. Unfortunately,…
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Laws & antisemitism
What has got the right-wing super upset this week is interesting because they are particularly cross about a bipartisan bill in the US that attempts to codify a definition of antisemitism but in a wholly wrong way. The bill (H.R.6090, the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act) was passed in the lower house with votes from both parties…
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I’m back
Just in time for a public holiday, so no work today. I did lots of Hugo homework while I was away: So, I’ve got a bunch of reviews to write and still lots of reading to do (1 novel, several novellas and tons of short fiction). I downloaded various things to watch on the plane…
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MYCOPHAGE: Part 12 – The Final Phage!
Cliff “Edge” McEdifice in the Earth Shattering Finale of MYCOPHAGE the intoxicating new thriller from Timothy the Talking Cat, Straw Puppy and the ghost of Michael Crichton. Part 12. This Is Way Too Many Parts Already. I think CAM has BEEN BACK FOR DAYS. Why are we still going with this? I pulled Doctor Niceface…
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MYCOPHAGE! Part 7
Cliff “Edge” McEdifice is MYCOPHAGE the intoxicating new thriller from Timothy the Talking Cat, Straw Puppy and the ghost of Michael Crichton. Part 7: No Room for Mushroom Louise J’Zeebel, the proud heir to the Dorsetshire J’Zeebel Mushroom corporate empire strode into the New York office of the International Mushroom Marketing Corporation, the peak umbrella…
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MYCOPHAGE! Part 6
Cliff “Edge” McEdifice is MYCOPHAGE the intoxicating new thriller from Timothy the Talking Cat, Straw Puppy and the ghost of Michael Crichton. Part 6: A Pause to Explain the Premise of the Plot Joe’s Bar and Grill is open 24 hours a day. You can buy a bad steak and a bad beer for more…
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MYCOPHAGE: Part 5
Cliff “Edge” McEdifice is MYCOPHAGE the intoxicating new thriller from Timothy the Talking Cat, Straw Puppy and the ghost of Michael Crichton. Part 5: Tanks for the Memories “She has a profound head trauma,” explained the professor. “She’s got profound all sorts of things.” I said wistfully. “What happened?” “Her apartment building exploded and she…
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Important Blog Announcement Tomorrow
Damn. I try to write a title and now I can’t spell “announcement”. Look at that word and say that you don’t see nothing but “an noun cement”. A cement for nouns? Is that verbs or punctuation or adjectives? Anyway, as a teaser here is a picture. What can it mean? Well let us just…
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Facebook is blocking criticism of Facebook (updated)
Update: Facebook has backed down in embarrassment and has removed the blocks I read this article this morning about some very disturbing behaviour from Meta aka the parent company of Facebook. “Something strange started happening Thursday morning: Facebook users who’d at some point in the past posted a link to a story from the Kansas…
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