Comments(0) James Doohan, famous for his role as Scotty on “Star Trek,” is one of about two hundred people whose ashes blasted off from New Mexico’s Spaceport America on Saturday. “This is the best final tribute for someone like James Doohan,” said Charles Chafer, owner of Space Services Inc., the company behind the launch. “Really, it […]
category: Popular Culture
Comments(3) You have not heard from us prior to this note because your application interested us and we hoped to be able to admit you. But, we had only 8 teaching assistantships, and we admit people when we have secured aid for them. We never secured aid to fund an offer to you.
category: Life, Rejections
Comments(1) “The Hollywood Reporter” reports that Marvel Studios is assembling personnel for “Spider-Man: The Broadway Musical” with Tony-winner Julie Taymor and U2 members Bono and The Edge writing new music and lyrics for the show. –Michael Patrick Sullivan
category: Comics, Popular Culture
Comments(5) Starting from biblical times, the small volume condenses the entire history of the Jewish people into a few pages of illustrations, with the majority of the work focused on the recent epoch in which the modern state of Israel was created. While this abbreviated account might offend the sensibilities of some religious scholars, it reveals, […]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) A Brevard County doctor dressed up like a super hero was treated more like a villain after he was arrested for groping a woman during a pub crawl with friends over the weekend. […] Things went from bad to worse for Adamcik at the police station. While being held at the police station, an officer […]
category: Popular Culture
Comments(2) He said that the mineral’s chemical formula, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, was the same scientific name written on a “case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film “Superman Returns”. Learning that the chemical composition of the material was an exact match to an invented one from comic […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture
Comments(9) [Here is something I notice about this video that really bothers me. According to CMT, this song hit #1 on Billboard’s Country charts and helped Underwood’s album go five times platnium last year, but now this song is shooting up the pop charts as DJs and VJs herald it as a “new” song. Naturally, appearing […]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Television
Comments(1) Based on the game’s highly-publicized trailer, examples include such spot-on pixelated representations of famous New York landmarks as Coney Island’s Cyclone roller coaster (renamed as the “Screamer”) and the MetLife Building (renamed “GetaLife”). Many of the other examples require no such clever name changes, including the city’s iconic Statue of Liberty, the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge, […]
category: Gaming, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(2) Dave Karraker, Sr. Director, Corporate Communications at SCEA, explained Sony’s decision in an interview with GameIndustry.biz: “At launch, we offered two separate models of PLAYSTATION 3 to meet the diverse needs and interests of our PlayStation fan base. Initial retail demand in North America was upwards of ninety percent in favor of the 60GB SKU, […]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(0) Sifting through the genes of more than 38,000 people of northern European descent, researchers from a dozen institutions studied three varieties of the FTO gene: AA, AT and TT. They found people who had the AA version faced the greatest obesity risk, while those with the TT version had the lowest. –Frances Schwartzkopff
category: Health