Comments(0) A French woman has admitted attempting to open an aeroplane door mid-flight so that she could smoke a cigarette. Sandrine Helene Sellies, 34, who has a fear of flying, had drunk alcohol and taken sleeping tablets ahead of the flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane. [From Aryn Widule’s blog. Aryn is a former student and […]
category: Humor
Comments(5) Comments published in a CNN article yesterday purporting to be from Sony CEO Howard Stringer regarding the planned pricing for PlayStation 3 have been removed after it emerged that he had not said anything on the question. […] So where did the information come from, then? The culprit appears to be a Hollywood Reporter article […]
category: Bibliography, Gaming, Popular Culture
Comments(0) Smallville is serving as a diving board for a spin-off series centered on another DC Comics character. The WB has given a pilot commitment to Smallville producers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough for a potential Aquaman series. [Aquaman??? I know some medievalist Comic Scholars who are interested in this character when Peter David wrote it, […]
category: Popular Culture, Television
Comments(0) We’ve already seen a Supergirl, Wonder Woman and Catwoman version of Barbie. Now there’s a Lois Lane “Barbie” doll due to be released in December, and she’ll be joined by a Superman “Ken” doll. [Superman Homepage shows images of what these products may look like and it seems like the “Ken” version of Brandon Routh […]
category: Popular Culture
Comments(0) FRACTON: I don’t know how you can not expect a downward trend with most books, just going over the numbers for the last year and a half. I don’t know if it’s defeatist– if anything, it’s just realistic. I think a publisher that understands these specific vagaries of the market and anticipates them knows, then, […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) NASA has discovered puzzling new cracks in the fuel tank foam insulation whose defects are responsible for the latest grounding of the space shuttle fleet, officials said Tuesday. [Each time I come across a NASA article, I always think back to high school, when I was on the Forensics team. I remember participating in a […]
category: Technology
Comments(0) So it is truly a sign of the times that the front cover of the annual RSL magazine for 2006 will be devoted to two graphic novelists. Posy Simmonds and Raymond Briggs were both made fellows of the society this year, the first in their genre to receive the honour. They are designing a cover […]
category: Comics, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) “Smatterwashed Blue” by Joshua Butcher Walking along the smatterwashed blue, The traveller under burdening boughs, He comes, he goes, from where to whence, A seven day journey for a sovereign sixpence. A seven day journey for a sick, spent sovereign. Sauntering jaunt that vaunts him along long ways, A long way away spies the damsel […]
category: Humor, Life, Poetry, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(4) “Philosophical Poetic Polemic” by Joshua Butcher Snippets of time snatch quality space, Space and time, one Hegel-of-a Kantinuum. Plato with play dough fashioned the Forms, Oh bother, said Aristotle, what’s the Matter? Then Aquinas went medieval on his class[(re)(ifications)]! But let us not forget that saintly sex-crazed monk, Who brought us an august catholic confessional. […]
category: Humor, Life, Poetry, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(6) James Bond beat off the likes of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and The Matrix to be voted the number one DVD boxset! There is good news if you do not own one already, as Sony Pictures are re-issuing the “James Bond Ultimate Collection” tin of 20 Special Edition 007 DVDs in time for […]
category: Popular Culture