Month: May 2005

Cory Doctorow tells it like it is: America’s entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe’s biggest broadcasters — the BBC — is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it. Unlike Hollywood, the…

Last night, some friends and I took a Local Tastes of the City Food Tour through Chinatown and North Beach. It was not good. Our guide, Tom Medin, was so genuinely excited about his cheesy and sometimes blatantly untrue San…

The sad thing is, I totally believe this story: Several years ago I went to Nordstrom at Christmas to do some shopping. The place was a mad house. The clerk took my credit card to ring up my order at…

I did a search for “creative commons” on neilgaiman.com and turned up this amusing anecdote: I think the first thing author Steve Brust ever said to me was “Let’s have an argument. Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light [my link -C]…

USA Today has published some excerpts from a recent Churchill Club panel on “What’s ahead for [the] Net [and] digital entertainment”. Here are my favorite quotes from the piece: “I want TiVo for BitTorrent.” — Roger McNamee “The search tools…

San Francisco sold out in less than an hour. After the success of last week’s Serenity screening, Universal decided to do it again– they added ten more theatres, doubling the number of venues, and scheduled the encore for Thursday, May…

In one of the most ballsy promotional ideas seen in ages, Joss Whedon and Universal decided to let fans in 10 US cities get a sneak preview of Serenity four months ahead of the pack. All the showings sold out…

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Not that I don’t appreciate you, dear reader, but I wish you’d tell more of your friends about my HotSheet and then post thoughtful commentary like the kind to which John Rogers responds in Kung Fu Monkey: Feedback & Criticism….

The original “Star Trek,” created by Gene Roddenberry, was, with a few exceptions, bad in every way that a science fiction television show could be bad… As science fiction, the series was trapped in the 1930s — a throwback to…