Author: Glenn Hauman

Yep, it’s that time of year again, it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day, an important holiday in the Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Extra points if you conduct your Rosh Hashanah services while talking like a pirate.

If you need pointers, watch this:

In honor of this sacred day, I’m curling up with a bottle of rum.

Candace Bushnell, the writer whose Sex And The City columns were the inspiration for the TV series and movie, has bounced back from last year’s cancellation of Lipstick Jungle on NBC and chosen the web for her new venture– a new series called The Broadroom, starring Jennie Garth and Jennifer Esposito. (Warning: if you click there, your cursor turns into lipstick. You wish I was kidding.)

Now, I watched the series when it was on HBO– okay, my wife watched it and I was in the room a lot– so I decided to give this one a try, see where the revenue stream is, and so on. And just shy of 2:40 into the first episode, entitled “Husband Hijinks” I’m treated to this monologue:

Ahh… men. I know nothing about them. I haven’t had a date in, like, ten months. All my girlfriends are, like, where are the guys like us? Responsible, ambitious, normal… they’re in their parents’ basements trying to start up their comic book company, or they’ve suddenly decided to become a screenwriter at the age of thirty-nine. It’s awesome.

My first thoughts on hearing this:

1. Yes, I started a comic book company in my basement. Mine. My house. I own it.
2. I don’t have the time to do screenwriting, although everyone knows that comics are the way to break into movies nowadays anyway.
3. Someone’s feeling a bit prickly that her film wasn’t in the top ten grossing films of 2008, and was beaten out by Iron Man and The Dark Knight.

Feel free to take a look for yourself:

And people wonder why there’s some worry about Diane Nelson.

To the surprise of few, IMAX Corp. and Columbia Pictures announced that Spider-Man 4 will be released to IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s worldwide release on May 5, 2011. Spidey 4 reunites director Sam Raimi with stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, and will be the first Spidey film under the new regime.

Hence the image.

Quite seriously, if you thought the Spidey-Cam was tough to move around before, just imagine what it’s going to be like to move a Spidey-IMAX-Cam…

Now the Photoshop mockups are coming from the people who are taking serious time to do them. Go look. And there’s still time to enter yourself.

Rob Harrigan posts that there will be a major John Buscema retrospective opening on Thursday in Palma de Mallorca, Spain and running until November 17. Private collections spanning his entire career will be on display publicly for what may be the first time. 

One wonders if they’re going to show the front of the pages of art or the back.