where there is gold in their bridges, or so I’m told.

Best Commercial of the Super Bowl: David Letterman. Oprah. Jay Leno.

Word is this is the first time Jay and Dave have spoken since 1992.

Watched this with Shurwitz last night (note: not really, we were both snowed-in in NJ and online, so we would periodically comment on the film to one another). Damn fine filmmaking… except that one stupid cut.

I love her.

Congrats Creighton on 1,000 Posts and having the wardrobe of a 5 year old!

Nerdology:

Awful Nerd Shirts

Shirt 10: This shirt says a lot of things.  It says “I went to Disney World for Star Wars Weekends.” It also says, “I think dressing Mickey up as a rebel pilot is cool.”  (i mean… it’s kind of cool right?)

What it doesn’t say is, “this is Nerdology’s 1000th post.” Even though it is.

[see all the awful nerd shirts]

More fun with PolaDroid.

I know what you’re thinking, “Cool polaroid pic, brah”.

Actually, this was made using a very cool, very free application called Poladroid. From the source: ”Once you’ve install the application, you launch it, and a little Polaroid camera will appear on your screen. Now, all you have to do is to choose any of your digital picture, and drag and drop it on the Polaroid camera.  Ten seconds later a little picture will come out of the camera, and just like the real Polaroid pictures, it’ll take the photo 2 to 3 minutes to appear! Actually, you’ll see it appearing little by little, just like with the real one.”

Go have fun!

Nerdology:

Sonic 4

Sega looks to recapture the fun of Sonic.  Not by placing him in a 3D world, not by having him compete in the Olympics, not by having him turn into a werewolf, or fighting against a knight.  No, Sonic looks to be returning to form with Sonic 4 a true sequel to the 2D Sonic and Knuckles on the Sega Genesis.  Fingers crossed.

(via ifloat)

by Damien G. Walter:

At Clarion, I was nailed more than once for drawing on America as a setting and source for my writing. Given that I’m British, and my stories were being critiqued by a group of very intelligent and culturally aware Americans from across that vast continent, I really had no defence.

After one critique Neil (Gaiman) talked to me about Americaland, the fictitious facsimile of the United States where many British writers set stories, himself included early in the early issues of Sandman. Americaland is real place for British writers, it is built from thousands of fragments of American TV, films, music, comics and other cultural artefacts. It’s a place filled with 1950’s dinners and long desolate highways among other things. And its just as imaginary as a Britain filled with red telephone boxes and bowler hatted business men.

(One draw of Americaland is the British tendency towards naffness…IE…any story that seems fascinating and dark in Americaland becomes utterly naff if you transplant it to the UK. Batman in Gotham = Dark Knight. Batman in Birmingham = mentalist in tights. If you are British and want to write Batman, or any other American archetype, then welcome to Americaland.)

Americaland is as much a fantasy world as Middle Earth or Dune. Some of the most fascinating fantasy worlds are the ones that overlap our reality so closely that the reader can almost accept them as real. Perhaps that’s why Americaland, with all its inaccuracies and cliches, can be such a compelling place to set stories in. Whenever I turn my hand to any story of the horrific or dark fantasy variety, I find Americaland creeping in from the edges. However hard I try to root these stories in the Britain I know, American locations and characters crop up again and again. When I turned to my imagination for material this weekend, it gave me a man and woman meeting in a dinner and going on a road trip. Its a story that can only take place in Americaland. So do I accept where my imagination is taking me, for all its flaws, or rail against it and force myself to write in British settings?

You tell me.

Good Day, Good Sir, from the album The Love Below.

I too am Fantastically Well…

shurwitzfilm:

I’m setting out to shoot a documentary about Revolutionary War Reenactors starting this summer. The doc will be shown at the Dusty Film Festival in May of 2011.

I am selling my knitting in exchange for donations in my film. Scarves, hats, gloves. Anything you’d like!

Help me make this film happen! Drop me a line if you’re interested in donating: shurwitzfilm@gmail.com

Fact: Sarah is an amazing knitter (is that a thing?) and can make you a banging hat that would be totally unique. Imagine that, Having a hat no one else in Manhattan has! You’d get asked shit like “Yo dog, where’d you get that banging hat?”, and you could respond “Oh shit son, its custom!”

So buy something….

“I’m sorry you had to see me like that.”

or

“You’re home.”

or

“Guess we found the temple”

or

“What happened?”

Anyone have some tips on what to do, what to see, and what to eat while visiting?

Ominous…