News/Media • Chuck Klosterman has joined The New York Times Magazine as the publication’s new ethics columnist. Like most of his readers who have followed him for more than a book or two and around the Internet, I’ll read whatever he has to say about anything, so watching him hit an ethics piñata around on … Read moreLunch Links: Staffing changes, Tarantino and E3
News/Media • The New York Times did a laudable job assembling this interactive piece on the Trayvon Martin shooting. • Do you want to see how to take Facebook’s Timeline feature and use it to your media company’s advantage? Look no further than Spotify’s page. It’s one giant historical rundown of landmark music events, complete … Read moreBreakfast Links: ‘Games of Thrones,’ Spotify and Dark Energy
Entertainment • Syfy debuted their trailer for “Blood and Chrome,” the new “Battlestar Galactica” prequel project, which may be a Web series or a pilot/TV movie. My first impression from this trailer is that it’s all action and “Immigrant Song,” so I worry that they’re trying to overcompensate for “Caprica” ditching outer-space dogfights for character … Read moreBreakfast Links: a BSG trailer, a ‘Doctor Who’ companion and the NYT paywall
• If there’s a new English translation of a Haruki Murakami novel coming out, chances are it’s already on my read it ASAP list. After reading this perspective piece by Yuka Igarashi at Granta today, I think the priority level for 1Q84 has been upped. The reworked and recycled motifs of Murakami’s writing are a big … Read moreLink Sausage: 10/16/2011
• Well, first off, I’m really excited to be hitting up SPX next weekend for the first time in a few years. The show just announced that it’s going to be partnering with the Library of Congress to archive comics. • I read Haruki Murakami’s new short story, “Town of Cats,” earlier this evening. It’s … Read moreLink Sausage: 9/3/2011
• Terri Schwartz, Kara Warner and Josh Wigler presented a fine speculative casting call for “Game of Thrones” Season 2 on MTV Movies Blog. Terri makes a great point there about the show being a potential opportunity for some Harry Potter kids to transition on to new things on solid footing. Also, I would like … Read moreLink Sausage: 6/29/2011
• I would like to use this Link Sausage installment to express solidarity with YouTube commenter jasonportizo and appreciation for the good old fashioned Muppet special effects being used in this Muppets “Green Lantern” parody trailer. • Goodness knows I’ve enjoyed the performances and plot twists in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” TV adaptation thus far. … Read moreLink Sausage: 6/17/2011
• Medill still owns the bulk of my time right now, but work has been interesting lately, what with today’s story about ChicagoQuest (a.k.a. Chicago’s new video game charter school), this video story I did about a teddy bear built to fight diabetes and other such things. • Andersonville has a new comics shop, and … Read moreLink Sausage: 5/12/2011
• I’ve been busy doing all manner of things recently in my graduate student capacity, but I have slipped in some time to look at some dandy artwork by Jack Teagle, Justin C. Orr and Hebru Brantley recently in my daily posting at ComicsAlliance. • And speaking of ComicsAlliance, I’d seen Gail Simone and Marjorie … Read moreLink Sausage: 4/11/2011
Link Sausage: 1/2/2011 Happy New Year, everyone. Stuff’s going to be changing gears on my end Monday as I step into the MSJ program at Northwestern’s Medill School for 2011, but just because I’m not freelancing full-time, it doesn’t mean that the gears are going to come to a complete stop pay-work-wise (thank goodness!). Anyway, … Read moreLink Sausage: 1/2/2011