Everyone’s favourite immortals-chopping-eachother’s-heads-off sci-fi/fantasy movie is getting a Batman-esque reboot. Yes, Highlander will be returning to the big screen in a new flick penned by the guys who wrote Iron Man. Pretty awesome. I always dug the concept of the original movies, even if they were so very, very bad. I mean, the original was [...]
Yes, Harrison Ford is asking us to protect the rainforest, since deforestation releases a massive amount of carbon into the atmosphere. Nothing special there- plenty of celebrities are hawking environmental causes these days. But you’ve got to give the man points for originality. He makes his case through the medium of chest-waxing, subjecting his furry [...]
Not much more to say, really. The tumor was discovered after Kennedy was rushed to hospital after he suffered a seizure at his Cape Cod home. Sad. Not because I’m a huge fan of the man, but because this kind of news is always tough. Hope it turns out OK for him.
Did I say ‘newsflash’? I clearly meant ‘forgone conclusion’. While this doesn’t really count as ‘news’, it’s still important to note. A congressional investigation into the now-farcically named Enivronmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented decision to block California’s proposed emission limits has revealed- surprise!- the Bush White House intervened to help out its buddies in the automotive [...]
Here’s a trippy video from flickr contrib pixelsurgeon: Creepy. I’m not sure why I find this so unsettling- it might be because I’m secretly terrified of a day where nothing happens, or that I’ve grown accustomed to the screeching cacphony of the 24 hour news cycle. Either way, I think I need to see a [...]
Well, it has been one year since I launched this version of Nunc Scio. And in the spirit of celebration, I’m going to engage in some rampant self-congratulation. Let’s look at the stats, shall we? 47,727 pageviews 26,649 visits 15,981 unique visitors 129 countries 1 Best Non-Partisan Blog award All in all, a pretty good [...]
This entry is cross-posted with blogTO.com. Plays about ‘ideas’ are tempermental beasts. When a playwright hitches his wagon to some kind of a political or social concept, it often ends up as a very boring show. A play that really wants to tell you something about, say, poverty ends up forgetting about all those other [...]