Salvage review

...-skinned neighbour, Mr Sharma, after he advances on them with a knife, and force everyone else back indoors at gunpoint. A bit of social comment is then inserted as Beth’s one-night stand, Kieran, speculates that Mr Sharma must have been a terrorist, despite her remarking, in a more reasoned fashion, that he is a Hindu (i.e. the darker skinned non-terrorist, as unofficial ‘swarthology’ discourse ...

[LINK] "China Launches First Gay Pride Festival"

...last minute, the government forbid a planned film screening and theatrical play from taking place, informing venues that any attempts to ignore the ban would result in “severe consequences.” The BBC speculates that this has more to do with the Chinese government’s nervousness about uncontrolled public gatherings than direct homophobia, and while it’s a setback whatever the reason, the peaceful and...

BotI Anime Licensed.

...Media Blasters, in its usual solicitationary way, has "announced" that it has licensed Bee Train's anime adaptation of Blade of the Immortal. Here's the listing from the solicitation topic: Blade of the Immortal, Vol.1 - 125 minutes - $29.99 - 9/29/09 Click the link for more info. The poster speculates that based upon the price and the listing, the entire series will end up being a three disks.

Who Watches the Watchmen - Annotations on Issue #2

.... He posed as Sally’s boyfriend as a cover-up. He disappeared in the 50’s after refusing to reveal his identity to HUAC. In the Under the Hood excerpt at the end of issue 3, Mason speculates that Hooded Justice may have been an East German weightlifter named Rolf Muller who disappeared around the same time. Muller’s body washed up on a beach and it is more than likely the Comedian (who was ...

Lost and Grey's Anatomy Wedding News!

... accepts Der's elevator proposal this Thursday, and all indications are that she will). "Shonda is probably counting on fans thinking a Der-Mer engagement would be just as drawn out as their courtship," speculates one Grey's insider. "So to marry them off seven weeks after getting engaged would certainly qualify as a surprise." Do you agree? Would a Mer-Der wedding catch you off guard? Or ...

Kindle and other e-readers as the savior of newspapers?

..., about the publishing industry, ebooks and ereaders, given the amount of page space that the music industry, iTunes, and music's DRM have gotten.  But check out this article , in which The Economist speculates that ebooks and the Kindle won't have the same impact on book publishing that iTunes did on the music industry, but may instead change the way readers think of newspapers and save that ...

... pounds) becomes fascinated by football. The gorilla aspires to play the game at its highest level and quickly develops the rudimentary skills of a defensive end. ESPN analyst Tom Jackson speculates that this gorilla would be "borderline unblockable" and would likely average six sacks a game (although Jackson concedes the beast might be susceptible to counters and misdirection plays). Meanwhile, ...

Paranoid LJ evac plan secured

So, as you may or may not have heard from various sources, LJ suddenly terminated nearly half their US employees. vakkotaur has a post on it . One of the linked entries from there speculates that the reason isn't very sinister: LJ relocated server farms from San Francisco to Montana, and those jobs cut were in SF. Just in case anything happens to LJ suddenly, I'll switch over to the ...

December Books 13) As You Like It

... Rosalynd of 1590, but that the bits people tend to remember - Jacques (with his Seven Ages of Man), Touchstone, and Rosalind's impersonation of herself - are all Shakespearean additions. He also speculates that William, the thick country lad, is Shakespeare's own self-deprecatory portrait. I can't help but play the autobiography game myself: there are two sets of feuding brothers in this play (...

Old story, still interesting

... with and without his father would, by themselves, be worth half the price of the book. Eventually, Norman says, Ono decided she would not endorse the book, feeling it was "mean to John." He speculates other readers will not share that feeling. He's right, at least with this reader. Yes, Norman shows a Lennon who clearly could be difficult to be around at times. He apparently did indeed have a ...