Jesus Christ. Poor Vendela Vida didn’t get in her first answer until the 3:33 mark. Shut the hell up, Silverblatt.
Month / March 2007
Kiran Desai Wins NBCC Award
Richard Grayson Hacks Gawker?
This morning, Richard Grayson put up a clearly fabricated ad on Craig’s List, seeking a “hipster intern.” Within hours, Gawker picked it up, asking for reader guesses. What’s more, Grayson posted this poem to provide clues. (Gawker, of course, didn’t observe that the poem was posted on March 8th, the same day as the Craig’s List ad.) But Grayson, being the good sport, revealed himself to be the author of the ad. So here’s the question (and perhaps Mr. Grayson might want to step in and answer): Was this a prank conducted by Grayson to see if he could get onto Gawker (and, concomitantly, this site)? An even bigger question: Are the Gawker writers so hard up (and we’re not just talking for material, but income to supplement the slave wages that Denton pays them) that they’ll troll Craig’s List in a desperate effort to find some inconsequential gossip item? Either way, Gawker got played big time.
We’ll Fix Emotions in Post
Times Online: “Directors have started to manipulate actors’ performances in postproduction. Modern visual effects technology allows them to go beyond traditional cosmetic changes, such as removing wrinkles and unsightly hairs, and adjust actors facial expressions and subtly alter the mood of a scene.”
Forensic Science
Adam Rogers: “To me, Cap is supposed to be chasing the American dream, and fighting whoever’s keeping it from happening. Some days that’ll be the government, some days it’ll be the Red Skull. Would Cap be fighting in Iraq right now? Probably—but he’d be over there uncovering the malfeasance that got us there in the first place, too. So here’s my question: If the government does something that smells a little fascist, a little un-American, and Captain America stands up and says, nope, this is wrong, won’t do it. Wouldn’t most people…um…believe him?”