There's a pretty good Brian K. Vaughn/Joss Whedon thingy at CBR for those of you who are polyamorous in your geekery.

BKV [to Whedon]: Man, I sure do love Oz. Not to get all “Chris Farley Show,” but remember in “Earshot,” when the editor of the school paper apologizes to Oz for writing, “Dingoes Ate My Baby played their instruments like they had plump polish sausages tied to their fingers?” And Seth Green stares him down for this perfect beat before saying, “No, that's fair.”

I've always wanted to be able to have that kind of Zen response to a cruel review, and it's one of the many reasons why Oz is such a great character. I'm sad he never got to have scenes with later additions like Andrew, but I will give you 40 dollars to write that story for me, cool

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For all your leather pantie needs: 300 Spartan Leather Briefs. Some ad writer got paid to write this copy: "briefs are made of brown leather and fit around the waist line covering the groin area."

Children, cover your eyes; everyone else, ( put on your safety goggles. )

Oh yes. Yes indeed.  (via heykidzcomix)

As a follow-up to my recent post about 300, a post by someone who's seen a preview of the movie.

For context, and warning, it may help you to know that Karen's been managing to work "The Hedghog can Never be Buggered at All" into all the conversations I've had with her for the past week or so.

brown_betty: have you ever noticed how there's a certain kind of misogyny that looks really gay?
odditycollector: Like ancient Greek misogyny?
Betty: yeah, exactly.
Karen: Women aren't good for anything.
Betty: I'm looking at [the] 300 [trailer] and I swear all the men in this movie wax their chests.
Karen: Good thing we've got the phallus!
Karen: wait, the Miller movie? That's out?( Read more... )

Frank Miller's recent fixation on retelling the same slightly creepy story again and again?

Still going strong, baby!

(Special bonus for Mary: If you read far enough down, quiche's heterosexuality is called into question.)

I'm fighting the urge to lecture lj at large for daring to be excited about 300. Does lj really care that the person who originally wrote the comic book it's based on is an icky man with icky issues? And why should I ruin other people's squee? These questions and more, in our next episode!