Wherein two sisters discuss the sport of basketball, and the heartbreak thereof

Yoda, MD.
Never having read many comics featuring Hawkman, I’m mystified by the whole Rann Thanagar war meme. That being said, I’m for Thanagar due to their lovely devices which would surely make an reference librarian’s job a lot easier.

A program at the Brookline Public Library on June 13th

So I took Nat’s suggestion and watched Born to Fight, a lovely movie about a militaristic drug gang that takes a small rural village hostage in order to force the release of their leader from prison. And they have a nuclear missle programmed to blow up Bangkok! A policeman decides to tag along with a [...]

Carol has a couple nifty posts on a concept opac.
Language Log on Yoda’s speech patterns.

Dave is still giving away the free comics, and I got one

I do expect a certain amount of ass kicking from a Jet Li movie. I do think that is a reasonable expectation to have based on his previous work. So Unleashed really bummed me out. I should have known that it wouldn’t be so great, since it does feature Jet Li being turned into a [...]

I finally read Volume One of Flight, which I managed to unearth from a stack of books right before I left on my little mini vacation out west. As many people have written, Flight is a lovely anthology with a loose theme of “flight” that brings together many artists, most of them with a background [...]

Was ok. I think you know what you’re going to get when you see a Ridley Scott historical epic. Plenty of big battles, jerky camera, slow motion fighting and blood spurting. I’m not sure if Orlando Bloom, decorative as he is, really had the charisma to pull of his role. He’s fine when killing people, [...]

…was my reaction to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I did like seeing Mos Def and Bill Nighy. I also thought the knitting bit was hilarious. Rose Read has been collecting Marvin patterns.

Lady Snowblood manga being released by Dark Horse. Coolness. Now you can read the manga that inspired the movie that Tarantino ripped off for Kill Bill.