The Great Geek Manual

Comics

• Jail sentence for hentai owner raises First Amendment issues. An appeals court ruling that has affirmed that owners of obscene comics like Hentai can be sent to prison has raised troubling questions for aficionados of extreme art.

Film

• Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother has been optioned for film by director Don Murphy of …Natural Born Killers?!
• Girls on Film: A Desire for Varied Female Protagonists is Not a Political Agenda
• It might be overstating matters a BIT, but here’s a great list of the 50 Reasons why GHOSTBUSTERS Just Might be the Greatest Film of all Time.
• Mary Robinette Kowal names Ten Fantasy Fathers Who Really Do Know Best.
• The Movie Blog makes the case for common sense, arguing that The Problem With The Star Wars Prequels Was Not Green Screen
• Proof of the siren-like effectiveness of Pixar’s marketing engine: Colby Curtin said she did not want to die until she saw the new Disney-Pixar movie Up.
• Unreality picks The 10 Most Polarizing Movies of the Last Decade that you have to either love or hate.

Internet

• Zazzle sells bumper stickers for people who don’t have strong opinions either way.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read “The Mansion of Bones” by Richard Parks at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Interview: The Readers of Boing Boing interview author Michael Moorcock.
• Do we need a new fantasy sub-genre? Stomping on Yeti proposes a Theopunk genre. I agree in so far as “His Dark Materials” is concerned, but are there enough titles to justify a sub-genre?

Television

• Fox offers a 12 Minute Preview of “Virtuality”, the series you’ll never get to see!