SuperHeroHype.com reported a duo of new viral marketing pieces (adding to the hundreds of related material already flooding the market) for July 18th’s The Dark Knight. VerizonWireless and Nokia have created a special site for VCAST folks to download trailers, wallpapers, screen savers, ring tones, and a serial digital comic. You can also enter contests to

so i was doing my daily The Dark Knight surfing, and even though i’ve already seen the clip, for some reason, i didn’t get to it via the Gotham City Pizzeria! …how ironic since my parents own a god-forsaken pizza shop in Westminster, MD. unfortunately, it’s “powered by Domino’s Pizza,” which according to my Roman

M. Night Shyamalan (along with Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, and Michel Gondry) is one of my favorite directors working today. After crashing into Hollywood with The Sixth Sense as “the next Hitchcock,” he continued to impress (me, at least) with Unbreakable, The Village, Signs, and Lady in the Water. For the general public, it seemed

Here’s some particularly maniacal Joker for you:

      “Diminished Capacity” – Matthew Broderick takes a vacation to see his uncle (Alan Alda) has the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s but most importantly, a genuine mint baseball card. Along with Virginia Madsen they go up to Chicago to try and sell it. Opens July 4, 2008 View the trailer at: http://www.worstpreviews.com/trailer.php?id=1224&item=0   “The Stone Angel” – Ellen Burstyn,

I’m a delinquent writer. Take that anyway you want. Truant. I owe new chapters of Wreck My Life, The Life of Liz and more than a few short stories and essays. I blame the new house. And the weather. And the new house. I partly blame losing interest. Though I’d never admit it. Even though I just did.  

Vacation and Minnesota are not words one would typically put in the same sentence. At least not without adding a “leaving” somewhere before Minnesota. However, the land of 10,000 lakes was where I spent the last week. Of course I had an excuse because my folks live there. Without boring you with the details of the

Writing after a prolonged break is kind of like trying to work-out after taking a month off. It just so happens I am attempting to do both. A month ago my words were efficient and my ideas solid. A month ago my lactic threshold could withstand a three-hour road ride up more than one hill. Today

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