What would Bruce Wayne's medical report look like? [This Is Awesome]

What would Bruce Wayne's medical report look like? [This Is Awesome]

via io9 by Russell Saunders - League of Ordinary Gentlemen on 11/15/11

Batman tends to rely on Alfred for patch-ups, but what if Bruce Wayne actually took the time to visit a real doctor? How on Earth would he explain away his dozens of daily injuries? More »

Film: Great Job, Internet!: Kurt Russell would like to know what the hell is...

Film: Great Job, Internet!: Kurt Russell would like to know what the hell is going on in Little China

via A.V. Club on 10/28/11

As our own Scott Tobias and Noel Murray said in their recent John Carpenter Primer (which, if you haven’t read it yet, what’s wrong with you?), Big Trouble In Little China is the silliest movie of Carpenter’s career, so revisiting it is a great Friday-afternoon distraction. However, this new supercut of the film suggests that maybe Jack Burton being “the inept sidekick to Dun” isn’t the joke of the film, as Noel suggests; maybe it’s just that Kurt Russell never got a look at the script. No, it’s actually totally the joke of the ...

TV: Newswire: Ratings roundup: Five reasons Community could see season four.

TV: Newswire: Ratings roundup: Five reasons Community could see season four.

via A.V. Club on 11/23/11

When news went out that Community had been left off NBC’s midseason schedule, it was only natural for fans to panic. After all, series are rarely pulled from network schedules, only to return in triumph a few months later. More often than not, a long hiatus is the final nail in the coffin of a low-rated show, something that drives away whatever fans are left. Though it wasn’t accurate—and though NBC was careful to say the exact opposite—it was understandable when some fans began claiming the show had been “canceled,” and that it was time to ...

See Patton Oswalt do something really creepy on King of Queens

Oh, this is just incroyable

TV: Great Job, Internet!: See Patton Oswalt do something really creepy on King Of Queens

via A.V. Club on 11/22/11

Instantly creating the unlikely occasion of a cult episode of King Of Queens, Patton Oswalt tweeted this video last night, saying, “Forgot I did this. I stayed absolutely motionless in the opening scene from a King Of Queens episode. EERIE.” And as you can see, he did. And it is. Oswalt says he “can’t remember” why he did it—whether it was on a dare, or just a form of silent protest of yet another obvious fat joke—but this seems destined to become the sitcom version of the old “Three Men And A Baby ghost.”

TV: Newswire: Fallon apologizes to Bachmann for Roots' intro song shenanigans

BOOOOOOOOO

TV: Newswire: Fallon apologizes to Bachmann for Roots' intro song shenanigans

via A.V. Club on 11/23/11

A day after Late Night With Jimmy Fallon inadvertently took the leap into the political arena thanks to The Roots' controversial song choice for guest Michele Bachmann, congresswoman from Minnesota and polarizing GOP presidential candidate, Fallon took to the Tweetsphere to apologize to Bachmann in a tweet sent out yesterday evening: “I'm honored that [Bachmann] was on our show yesterday and I'm so sorry about the intro mess. I really hope she comes back.” As for Roots drummer Questlove, who Fallon already grounded for his part in the tomfoolery, he told Speakeasy, “The performance was a tongue-in-cheek and ...

TV: Newswire: R.I.P. Mark Hall, co-creator of Danger Mouse

TV: Newswire: R.I.P. Mark Hall, co-creator of Danger Mouse

via A.V. Club on 11/18/11

The BBC is reporting the death of animator Mark Hall, co-founder of the Cosgrove Hall Films studio that created beloved ‘80s children’s TV series like The Wind In The Willows, Chorlton And The Wheelies, and—most famously—Danger Mouse. Hall died of cancer at the age of 74. Together with fellow producer Brian Cosgrove, Hall founded Stop Frame Productions in 1969, before that company folded and gave way to Cosgrove Hall in 1975. Their first successful cartoon was Chorlton And The Wheelies, a surreal effort about a “happiness dragon” adopted by a society of strange creatures who run about ...

TV: Newswire: Today in news from the darkest timeline: NBC pulls Community f...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

TV: Newswire: Today in news from the darkest timeline: NBC pulls Community from its midseason lineup

via A.V. Club on 11/14/11

NBC has just released its midseason schedule, and with it comes the expected reshuffling of its Thursday night comedy block, and the decision that many viewers feared but perhaps never dared to believe the network might actually go through with: The fervently beloved yet very low-rated Community is being pulled from the lineup, replaced in its timeslot by the returning 30 Rock. So far neither NBC nor creator Dan Harmon has issued a statement on the show’s future, but it should be noted that this isn’t an official cancellation. The New York Times’ Bill Carter (as relayed by ...

Music: The Big Questions: What makes music boring?

Wow, an entire article about boring music and no mention of Radiohead

Music: The Big Questions: What makes music boring?

via A.V. Club on 11/14/11

If somebody makes a list of 2011’s most controversial pop-culture essays, “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables” by Dan Kois from the April 29 edition of The New York Times Magazine more than likely will have a special honor at or near the top. Kois’ piece is remarkable for two reasons: 1) Its central argument—that slow, obtuse art films can be hard to enjoy and even dull—is obvious and relatable to most people; 2) This argument seems specifically designed to piss off Kois’ peers in the film-critic community, which it did smashingly well.  “Eating Your Cultural Vegetables” inspired dozens ...

Film: Newswire: Harry Potter director developing all-new Doctor Who movie

Film: Newswire: Harry Potter director developing all-new Doctor Who movie

via A.V. Club on 11/14/11

Befitting a TV series that constantly reinvents itself, Variety reports that Doctor Who will be retooled again, this time as a big-screen franchise under Harry Potter director David Yates. The BBC is overseeing the adaptation, which Yates says could take “two to three years to get it right,” adding, “It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.” And you know what that means: Yates says he will “start from scratch” on the project, so it will have nothing to do with any of the recent Doctor Who reboots—including its current, Matt Smith-starring incarnation. Instead ...

Armed Robbers Hijack Modern Warfare 3 Shipments in France

I think this is one of the multiplayer maps

Armed Robbers Hijack Modern Warfare 3 Shipments in France

via GamePolitics blogs by james_fudge on 11/7/11

Two armed robbers managed to steal 6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 in France, according to multiple news reports. According to published reports (as translated by Eurogamer), at 8:00 AM on Sunday morning a car crashed into a van 10km south-east of Paris. The van was carrying unspecified video game cargo worth €400,000.

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Justice Department Abandons Changes to Freedom of Information Act

YAY

Justice Department Abandons Changes to Freedom of Information Act

via GamePolitics blogs by james_fudge on 11/4/11

The U.S Justice Department has backed off proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act after strong public criticism to the changes, and a collective verbal lashing from lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum. Lawmakers felt that proposed changes gave the DOJ a license to lie to citizens who were looking for information from the government.

At issue was a proposal that gave the agency the ability to say that information "did not exist" if an agency determined that said information was classified in nature.

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Longmont, Colorado Wins Right To Use Its Own Broadband

YAY

Longmont, Colorado Wins Right To Use Its Own Broadband

via GamePolitics blogs by james_fudge on 11/4/11

Comcast and CenturyLink have failed to create a repeat of their 2009 victory in the city of Longmont, Colorado. The city wanted to use its own broadband infrastructure instead of relying on ISP's like Comcast and CenturyLink, but state law required that a referendum be passed by the town's citizens in order to use it. In 2009 broadband providers Comcast and CenturyLink spent an obscene amount of money to convince residents of the town that it was a bad idea. The plan worked and citizens rejected it by 56 percent of the vote.

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