May 2007 Archives

It’s true. Bruce Campbell says so:

“The funny thing about that is that on the first ‘Spider-Man,’ I met Tobey Maguire,” recalled Campbell. “And he was like, ‘Okay, yeah, you’re a friend of Sam’s.’ Then I showed up for the second one, and he’s like, ‘Why are you back again? And you’re playing a different character. Why are you here?’ And he didn’t really get it. And then on the third one, he saw me and was, ‘Okay, you’re never going to go away. I see.’ So he finally made peace with it.”

Sorry, Tobey, but you’re out of my boyfriend harem.

Bruce has a permanent seat, of course.

(Technorati tags: Tobey Maguire, Bruce Campbell)

You may recall my speaking of the hilarious NYC Blogger Summit I attended back in February (detailed here and here). One of the ringmasters that night was Sree Sreenivasan, dean of students and professor at Columbia Journalism School, who was shockingly uninformed about this thing called the Intertubes. And yet he is someone who is constantly called up to pontificate on “new media.” Jane at Firedoglake points out a Chicago Sun-Times article that couldn’t be more clueless about blogs, bloggers, and blogging. The money quote is from Sreenivasan:

Uncovered at CNNMoney.com:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Dow Jones industrial average squeaked out another record high Friday, making this the longest bull run in 80 years, as investors cheered tame inflation numbers, talk of big mergers and a jobs report that appeared just right.

Hmmm. Eighty years ago was 1927...

Uncovered at Truthdig:

In 2005, the richest 1 percent of Americans held 19 percent of the nation’s income, the largest share since 1929; the poorest 20 percent held only 3.4 percent.

Hmmm. Didn’t something kinda big happen in 1929? Something kinda big or huge or... great? That’s it: the Great Depression.

But that could never happen again, right?

(Technorati tags: stock market, poverty, gap between rich and poor, new great depression)

Something about Rodney McKay on last night’s episode of Stargate Atlantis, “The Tao of Rodney,” made me think of LOLcats, which I can waste hours surfing and snorting Diet Dr Pepper out my nose at. It might be because Rodney is kinda like a cat himself, so adorably arrogant. Or just because I know David Hewlett is a big ol’ dork, too, and might think LOL Rodney is a funny mashup.

So I give you LOL Rodney:

(Screencaps from Gateworld.)

(Technorati tags: Stargate Atlantis, Rodney McKay, David Hewlett, LOLcats, LOL Rodney)