Fox posts the San Diego Comicon footage of X-Men 2. Brian Cox looks good, and it was a wise move to focus on Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, but I can’t say I was completely sold by the teaser. Danger Room? Nightcrawler?
Dreaming of Me.
Ok, in the past four days, I’ve had dreams involving dozens of old friends, four exes, both my old high schools, three former offices, a very long crew practice, the house I grew up in, and my middle school city rec soccer team. Either my brain is running one of its semi-annual Scandisks, or it’s trying to tell me something. Perhaps it’s a back-to-school kinda thing. Strange.
Carville goes Disney.
Apparently, James Carville has been cast in an upcoming Disney flick set in Appalachia. (Friends of mine from the old office confirm the story.) If he could handle King of the Hill, I’m sure he’ll do swimmingly for the Mouse.
No-go for Cuomo.
Surprisingly, it seems President and Senator Clinton are now quietly backing H. Carl McCall over former Clinton Cabinet official (and Gore hack) Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for NY Governor. Is this residual fallout from the much-rumored Clinton-Gore rift in 2000, or just a savvy political move to set up for 2008?
Bye Bye Barr.
With Bob Barr and Cynthia McKinney hitting the road, among others, is DC getting dull? Well, I can think of more apt criteria to judge our Congresspersons, but they probably wouldn’t do any better in those categories either.
Nobody picked Dude, Where’s My Car?
The 2002 Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll. (found by way of this Slate article.) Held once a decade, it’s worth perusing for a glimpse into the tastes that drive many film directors and critics. Unlike the Slate writer, I have no issues with Citizen Kane being No. 1, although he’s right in noting it’s a bit dubious to consider the first two Godfathers together. By that logic Godfather III should drag ’em all out of the top twenty.
Blue funk.
Just had my first swig of Pepsi Blue. Jesus, that was vile…I think I like it. And, given how much I love Code Red, I might just have to try the Powy Purple (Via Jilly.)
Pics for your Precious.
Custom FOTR covers, for your regular edition FOTR DVD. Some of these are quite nice.
The Dubya Motel.
Surprise, surprise. Apparently the Bushes have been having tons of big donors over for sleepovers at the White House. (Dubya’s defense is they’re not sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom, as if that makes a difference.) Let’s prep those congressional investigations, people! C’mon, Dan Burton, get a move on. Why do I have a feeling hypocrisy will remain the order of the day here?
Spaced.
Sigh. As per last season, Sci-Fi is playing the ratings game and shelving the second half of Farscape‘s fourth season. So, after next week’s “summer finale,” there’ll be no more Crichtonisms until January of 2003. Bleah. At least it frees up my Fridays.