* The creators of The Wire have apparently decided to make a show that’s even easier for the writers of sociocultural thinkpieces to wax enthusiastic about and are adapting the nonfiction Iraq War book Generation Kill as an HBO miniseries. AICN’s review sums up the team’s, uh, appeal:

As you know, Ed Burns and David Simon were the writers/creators/producers of HBO’s “The Wire.” In my opinion, “The Wire” is hands-down the best show ever made. Period. End of discussion. Sure, I love “The Sopranos,” “Lost,” the Whedonverse, and several other TV staples, but what makes “The Wire” excel above all the rest, is its journalistic approach to filmmaking. Simon and Burns use TV, as a writer uses a notepad. No flash or bombast. No overreaching character arcs designed to bludgeon you to death with their profundity. They’re intent is not to entertain, but to inform.

Swell.

* Kristin Thompson will be attending San Diego Comic Con. To participate in a Hobbit movie panel. The Film Studies 101 student in me just can not get over this.

* CRwM gives the business to mainstream critics who feel it’s their solemn duty to Speak Truth to Genre.

* Finally, I just want everyone looking to keep cool tomorrow from 11am to 6pm to know that my table at MoCCA, in same corner as PictureBox and Pantheon, is perhaps the most air-conditioned place in the New York metro area. Just sayin’.

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