Who you gonna call?

Splash Page has the details on a new Ghostbusters comic from IDW that reportedly picks up after the second movie in terms of continuity.

QOTD: 7/29/08

Karina: (Yeah, this is a trend)

It’s not a writer’s job to protect the stupid.

Unfortunately too many media outlets – and by extension their writers – think that’s exactly what their job is.

The new paradigm

So now that Tom has publicly let the cat out of the bag about his new gig at MTV I feel comfortable mentioning what’s going on in my world.

Now that The Biro has moved on to try and become the next Ed Lover I’m doing what I can to take up the slack in the DialogueMedia practice at MWW Group. They’ve asked me, and I’ve agreed, to travel out to New Jersey on a weekly basis in order to provide more hands-on care to both the account teams and the clients. Since the agency is based in NJ that makes sense as we figure out what’s going to happen going forward.

So if things are a bit more sporadic and some MMM columns get published a little late that’s why.

This is an exciting time and things are in a pretty decent state of flux, but things are going to be great moving forward. Bear with me, please, as I get into the new routine. The biggest problem right now appears to be those instances when either the state of New Jersey or the airline industry doesn’t want to let me leave the east coast. I don’t like that.

QOTD: 7/28/08

Matt Groening (via Anne Thompson):

Q: Where do you get your jokes from?
A: Family Guy.

QOTD: 7/26/08

Karina:

Sorry. I’m at Comic-Con, which makes me feel like a fucking sexpert, just because I’ve had it. (Slam!)

My home away from home

likemind enters terrible twos

I don’t make it to as many likemind Chicago coffee meet-ups as I’d like to, but always enjoy them when I do. For that reason I want to take a moment and link to Noah Brier’s post announcing that, much to his surprise, likemind just turned two.

In other news, the Pope has left his position as the head of the Catholic Church

Ryan Block is leaving Engadget to work on an undisclosed venture with Peter Rojas.

(note to self: work on not making headlines longer than the posts they’re supporting.)

It’s THAT guy!!

All through watching The Dark Knight, and for about 10 hours afterward, I kept trying to figure out where I knew the actor who played one of the cops in the Gotham PD, the one who gets held at knife-point by the Joker as he’s escaping from prison, from. It finally hit me that it was the same guy who played Holtz on “Angel.” I probably wouldn’t have even recognized him if I hadn’t been watching a bunch of “Angel” episodes recently due to my being in hotels a lot lately and the show being TNT for two hours in the morning.

Monika at Cinematical makes the same connection.

Curse-ive writing

In case you were wondering what the term was for the string of punctuation that’s used to indicate cursing, Tina Roth Eisenberg links to just that term.