Film
- Interview: Terry Gilliam talks with the Telegraph on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and the death of Heath Ledger.
- Kevin Smith thinks that Mad Men actor Jon Hamm Should Play Batman… And Superman, Too!
Internet
- BBSpot points out The Top Eleven Signs Google Knows Too Much About You.
- Cracked.com envisions Five Popular Websites During The Zombie Apocalypse.
- SciFi Wire gets into the Halloween mood with a list of 10 creepy movie kids even Angelina Jolie wouldn’t adopt.
Literature
- Interview: BSC talks with Mark Chadbourn about Hellboy.
- News: Book Sales Are Down, Despite Push. It’s not news, but it’s still amusing, like watching a dull child trying to catch water in a sieve.
- The Guardian profiles father of the macabre, Arthur Machen.
- I read today that Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. I’m not sure that’s true, but it sounds nice.
- A Library to Last Forever is a great op-ed piece about digital books by Google’s Sergey Brin that was recently published in The New York Times.
- Roger Ebert speaks out on the joys of Loving and Owning Books.
- Why the hell can’t a sci-fi writer (like Bradbury or LeGuin) win the Nobel Prize for Literature? Is it an honest shortcoming of the genre or just European snobbery?
Television
- GeekPadShow names the 15 Biggest Science Fiction Characters That Sold Out.
- The Los Angeles Times counts down The Best and Worst TV Weddings.
- Last night, Stephen Colbert Compares Himself to Glenn Beck, with hilarious results.
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