Archive for August, 2009
Doubledown’s Assets Didn’t Sell. Dommage.
Sunday, August 30th, 2009Doubledowners! I have sad news: none of our former publishing company’s assets were seen as worthy of purchase at last week’s bankruptcy auction. What does this mean for those of us still owed money from when our little startup decided to do its best imitation of Tsar Bomba back in January?
Wait, I don’t even need to [...]
Last Stands ‘R Us
Friday, August 28th, 2009It’s a perfectly natural thing for one’s head to explode upon receiving certain types of information.
“So apparently this travel-in-Cuba piece I’m writing, they’re dropping it into the feature well beside the 5,000-word excerpt from the never-before-published novel by likely the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century.”
“That’s a good thing, no?”
“It’s sort of like being [...]
‘Inglourious Basterds’ Meet John Wayne
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009It took virtually the entirety of Inglourious Basterds for me to realize that Brad Pitt was attempting a John Wayne impersonation.
This is ironic on several levels.
First, if you’re starring in a remake/homage to the great men-on-a-mission films of yore, you don’t base your performance on Wayne, who was down to one lung and his last [...]
How Bloggers Sell Out For Filthy, Filthy Lucre
Sunday, August 16th, 2009A few days ago, a freelancer friend of mine had a conversation with a Marketing Dude at a Giant Food Conglomerate, who had been paying bloggers and other social-media types to write positive things about their tasty products. The problem at hand, Marketing Dude lamented, was a new FCC regulation requiring bloggers to footnote whether [...]
Nope, No Leaked ‘Iron Man 2′ Footage Here
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Well, the original plan was to post one of those bootleg clips from Iron Man 2 that have been circulating around the Internets, but evidently Marvel threatened the right geeks with sending a few goons around to break their vintage still-in-box Star Wars toys, so all the footage has been pulled.
(Those lucky enough to view [...]
‘Inglorious Basterds’ Better Be Glorious
Thursday, August 6th, 2009To: Quentin Tarantino
From: Me
Re: “Inglorious Basterds”
Look, Quentin, buddy, I’m not asking for the second coming of Where Eagles Dare here, but if your Brad-Pitt-Kills-Lots-Of-Nazis flick isn’t at least on par with the original Italian-language Inglorious Bastards, then my inner 13-year-old who fell in love with Pulp Fiction is going to be severely disappointed. Okay, buddy? Can [...]
The Incredible Flaming iPod Touch
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Apple’s App Store already has 65,000 programs available for download, so I guess this next one was sort of inevitable. Ever wanted to absolutely, positively kill everyone in the room? Well, now there’s an App for that. (Sorry, Sam Jackson, but it’s 2009 and you’ve now been technologically pwned.)
That’s the only explanation, really, for [...]
Doubledown’s Dead Horse
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009And it’s a dead horse with some life still in it: yet another article on the fall of Doubledown Media, this one focusing on the rather protracted bankruptcy proceedings. As the Bankruptcy Court continues to digest that whole sad affair, of course, it sees fit to leave little turds in the form of court filings [...]