* I feel like there were at least three or four announcements today that would topline your average nerd blog nine days out of ten. Whoopiddy dee!
* For starters, it’s a huge Battlestar Galactica news day: Tonight the cast appears on Letterman to read the Top 10 reasons you should watch the new season, today the SciFi Channel announced it has greenlit the BSG prequel backdoor pilot Caprica (via Whitney Matheson), and show bigwig David Eick revealed that NBC has canceled his so-so Bionic Woman remake. Good news all around, basically!
* You know what Rick Baker is saying to your new-school non-furry rat-fetus werewolves with his makeup for Benicio Del Toro’s title character in the remake of The Wolfman? Fuck you, that’s what he’s saying. Well, not in so many words, but take a look at the pictures and read his interview at EW touting the film’s faithfulness to the Lon Chaney Jr. wolfman and read between the lines, baby. (Via Bloody Disgusting.)
* Michael Cera is apparently going to play Scott Pilgrim in Edgar Wright’s film version of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic. I guess this is good because it should get the movie some attention, but I always pictured Scott–wait, that’s not accurate, I always used my eyes to look at the pre-existing pictures of Scott and came to the conclusion that he’s a more stylish cat than Cera. I also wasn’t an Arrested Development watcher and never saw Superbad, so I don’t have much of a dog in this race.
* David Simon says that by focusing on everything that went wrong with The Wire‘s final season, you miss the genius of it, which was…uh, distracting you with everything that went wrong so you didn’t notice what it did right. Yeah, I’m not sure why that’s supposed to count in the show’s favor either. (Via Keith Uhlich.
* Jason Adams reviews the English-language version of Funny Games, and says it’s kind of a superfluous experience if you know the German version at all. However, he fucking loved Doomsday–doesn’t everyone?
* Harry Knowles did, and he expresses it in his own unique way:
Sure, I’d fuck it – but I also want to put it in a shallow grave – so I can dig it back up and fuck it later.
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* Sean and his excellent pop/geek/art/sex blog Strange Ink is back!
* Finally, Max Rebo cake! (Via Topless Robot.)
