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NEW PLANET FOUND! NO NAME IN SIGHT! MILKY WAY - While trying to avoid what officials said to be "that nasty business" with Uranus, scientists are scrambling to find a suitable name for the new found planet, Planet X. "We can't keep calling it Planet X," said one highly paid nerd. "We already received emails from Marvel Comics and Spike Lee about the use of X". While they're also avoiding the ...

Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes Stories like Ice Haven may appear simple at the onset but it leaves a distinct feeling after finishing it. A mental aftertaste if you will. Like most of Daniel Clowes' stories, you're drawn in by the quirky characters and the dark humor in the situation. Yet you can't help but feel the underlying melancholy long after putting down the book. While Clowes may not be an ...

DVD Tag from Daniel. Not sure if I have answered it before but what the hey: Total Number of Films I Own on DVD And Video: Way too much. I would say, it would be around 175 titles, give or take. That would include those in Beta format and VHS. All of which of course are in the Philippines. It's not as diverse as I'd want to. I'd like to ...

Conrado de Quiros, atapang a-tao. (via Kanto Girl, whose blog just turned 4 years old this week. Congrats xkg!)

If, like me, you're interested in the creative process that goes into writing stories, making movies and penning songs, then Adaptations : From Short Story to Big Screen should be a treat for you. Adaptations by Stephanie Harrison is a compilation of 35 short stories which have been turned into movies in the past 100+ years of cinema. The anthology collects popular as well as little known short ...

Hulk: Gray Story by Jeph Loeb Art by Tim Sale Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale has a formidable body of work. They have managed to offer fresh take on Superman, Batman, Daredevil, Spider-Man and Wolverine. With Hulk: Gray they take on yet another of comics most recognizable character: the Hulk. While most modern incarnations of Hulk in the comics, TV and the movie is that as a green giant, his first ...

With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling is now one book shy of a promised seven-book series which follows the boy wizard and his friends through their education in Hogwarts. How she'll tie-up the loose ends with just one book would be no small feat -- if it won't be in 3 books with 500-pages each. While Rowling follows a formula, albeit a successful one (Summer ...