tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post1724992223142244578..comments2024-02-16T11:41:37.696-05:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Who Watches the Watch-Nerds?Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-82383016824939405772008-07-30T10:11:00.000-04:002008-07-30T10:11:00.000-04:00Hey, be nice. He has done us all a service.Hey, be nice. He has done us all a service.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-24770564388503209392008-07-30T08:53:00.000-04:002008-07-30T08:53:00.000-04:00Good ol’ Adam Cohen. He sure does ramble on before...Good ol’ Adam Cohen. He sure does ramble on before getting to the important stuff, doesn’t he?GuyWhoHatesAdamCohennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-23238533735100592712008-07-29T23:40:00.000-04:002008-07-29T23:40:00.000-04:00Heh, just this morning I started whistling the Sta...Heh, just this morning I started whistling the Star Blazers theme song (the long slow sad version) and several co-workers also recognized it. I swear that will be played at my funeral.Chadhttp://pirate-king.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-10125475558254380842008-07-29T23:05:00.000-04:002008-07-29T23:05:00.000-04:00See fifth comment up from your own by Adam Cohen.See fifth comment up from your own by Adam Cohen.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-48444601934633579692008-07-29T22:50:00.000-04:002008-07-29T22:50:00.000-04:00Nobody noticed that the director’s cut of DARK CIT...Nobody noticed that the director’s cut of DARK CITY was released on DVD yesterday?TheGuyWhoNoticednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-51254218892500971452008-07-29T16:44:00.000-04:002008-07-29T16:44:00.000-04:00I once had ambitions to be an author but then I sc...I once had ambitions to be an <i>author</i> but then I scrapped what was going to be my debut novel when I discovered that if I read a few hundred more books of a certain type I could be a <i>literary</i> author. So that’s what I’m working on now. You can’t be <i>that</i> unless you read Thomas Hardy, Beaudelaire, and all the other highbrow stuff (or as I will soon be saying… <i>material</i>). Besides, if you buy Folio Society books, you get illustrations to boot, which makes the highbrow a little more comic-ey and fun.Dee Lightfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-4780238755501308492008-07-29T16:10:00.000-04:002008-07-29T16:10:00.000-04:00Hey, don’t say I never gave ya cultcha, though. T...Hey, don’t say I never gave ya cultcha, though. Thanks ta me, you and the whole egg-sellers panel from our Lolita Bar event has been mildly insulted on HuffingtonPost, per my latest blog entry: <br><br><a href="../huffingtonpost-vs-debates-at-lolita-bar/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://toddseavey.com/2008/07/29/huffingtonpost-vs-debates-at-lolita-bar/</a>toddseaveynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-84469820873935837932008-07-29T15:55:00.000-04:002008-07-29T15:55:00.000-04:00I thought Dark City was really cool but some of th...I thought Dark City was really cool but some of the plot was illogical which is where it lost some if its nerd cred.<br><br>“I was (a) a nerd”<br><br>Todd, isn’t using the past tense a bit presumptuous? You ARE a nerd; say it proud!<br><br>And I’ve taken Todd to art exhibits before and he looked at paintings and relayed anecdotes from comic books, no foolin’.Diana Fleischmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-47938412488961453862008-07-29T13:40:00.000-04:002008-07-29T13:40:00.000-04:00I love Dark CityI love <i>Dark City</i>Elizabethhttp://elizabethnolanbrown.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-19600285377376908412008-07-29T12:18:00.000-04:002008-07-29T12:18:00.000-04:00Ten years ago, at least one of those adoring fans ...Ten years ago, at least one of those adoring fans of The Dark Knight was sitting in the center of a nearly empty Manhattan movie theater wondering why the film, which I loved, hadn’t attracted a larger opening night crowd. Today, Dark City is being released in high definition glory on BluRay (less than $20 at Amazon), with both the original theatrical release, a new Director’s Cut, a digital copy (for iPods and the like), and several film length commentaries featuring the director, set designers, and Mr Ebert, too. For those of you equipped to cherish it, bon appetit! <br><br>I hadn’t thought of Starblazers in ages, Todd. Epic sci-fi for kids in the eighties. Loved it.Adam Cohennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-52922826503326862512008-07-29T12:05:00.000-04:002008-07-29T12:05:00.000-04:00Hey, I said (as a teen) I thought it was better th...Hey, I said (as a teen) I thought it was better than Hardy, not better than Shakespeare… <br><br>BONUS ITEM: Obscure comics factoid of the day, from Wiki.: <br><br>In “The Education of Jaime Sommers” episode of Bionic Woman, Tom Gilchrist (played by Jordan Bridges) notes, “One of my favorite comic books was The Freedom Fighters. There was a character called The Human Bomb” — and pulls back his tuxedo jacket to reveal explosives strapped to his body.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-82255205846044707222008-07-29T12:01:00.000-04:002008-07-29T12:01:00.000-04:00Yes to Starblazers, DS9>TNG, Road Warrior. But...Yes to Starblazers, DS9>TNG, Road Warrior. But no to using Ringworld as your example of meritorious SF.<br><br>I mean, it’s brilliant– an inspired core idea, and then more ideas building off of it on every page. But it’s also, well, not very *good* as a piece of prose– and it was late enough in the development of SF that the idea of plausible characters having plausible dialogue wasn’t completely alien to the genre anymore…Jacob T. Levyhttp://jacobtlevy.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com