* San Diego Daze Part One: Sure, I guess contacting the Comic-Con organization for an explanation of their exhibitor badge rate hike is one way of exploring the story, Tom, or should I say Mr. Fancy-Pants.
* San Diego Daze Part Two: Los Angeles’ chief spokesman in its effort to win Comic-Con away from San Diego, Michael Krouse, really does come across like something out of The Player in this interview with Kiel Phegley.
* San Diego Daze Part Three: In no uncertain terms, Chris Butcher stomps all over the idea that San Diego has been a good host to the Con.
* Rich Juzwiak liked the Nightmare on Elm Street remake–for bringing some gravitas to Freddy, of all things–but for me the money quote in his review is this:
Some time during, oh, the fourth Saw flick or so, this much should have been clear to even the most ardent horror defender: we’re the ones who are really being tortured. We slog through so much garbage and for what? To find that rare diamond in a rough like back in the VHS days? To see just how far cinema will go to freak us out and make us squirm? To actually freak out and squirm? Because being smarter than garbage beats being dumber than art? I don’t know really what the point is (probably a little from each of the presented scenarios), but I know that I’m a gleeful masochist.
“Because being smarter than garbage beats being dumber than art”–friends, is that a tagline for all of nerd culture?
* Real Life Horror: It’s like something out of the movies, only not really; we dodged a bullet this time, but for how long?
* This is an extraordinary album cover.
* I…I don’t even know what to say about this. I really don’t. Words fail.