Monday, July 16, 2007

links for 2007-07-16

• evhead: I might start blogging in September
  Good for you. I hear it's all the rage.
  (tags: weblogcommunity)
• A high-flying conversation with John Barrowman, star of BBC America's "Torchwood."
  A wonderful (spoiler-free) interview with John Barrowman, Torchwood's omnisexual, heroic hunk, Captain Jack Harkness. (Note: contains the phrase "titty wank".) [thanks Lilly]
  (tags: johnbarrowman captainjack torchwood doctorwho)
• 5 segundos
  Brilliant. Just brilliant.
  (tags: video)
• "The Paul Lynde Halloween Special" coming to DVD
  Oh Sammy! If you have ever seen this (and few have; it aired only once back in 1976 and has survived only in bootleg form), you know why this is a must-have.
  (tags: halloween paullynde dvd television video)

Saturday, July 14, 2007

Cruising coming to DVD

As noted by Nightcharm, the 1980 William Friedkin travesty Cruising is going to be released on high-definition DVD this September, uncut (ahem) with restored unseen footage. (N.B.—that last link, in addition to featuring a lengthy consideration of the film and its attendant controversies, also features some naughty pictures of nekkid fellas.)

In the dawn-tinted Parthenon of awful gay movies, Cruising stands alone. It doesn’t merely backfire; it backfires brilliantly. ...

Cruising was certainly a shocker in its day. The 1980 thriller is set in the night-world of New York’s orgiastic backrooms, peepshows and open-air fuck-fests that ran 24/7 in the bushes of Central Park. A then hot and nasty Al Pacino goes undercover to attract a serial killer, decoying himself as a hungry bottom in wife-beaters and low-slung jeans. The killer, meanwhile, a lanky, long-torsoed lad whose face is always concealed, is shown tricking and then killing his bound-up S&M partners — a sort of buyer’s remorse we usually associate with the black widow spider — ever whispering in his victim’s ear the moronic catchphrase “You made me do that.”

Monday, February 19, 2007

links for 2007-02-19

• Jason of Star Command - Press Release & Artwork
  Yay! The full series on DVD coming in May!
  (tags: television)

Sunday, August 7, 2005

I feel a bit like Penfold, I do…

I had a chance this week to fiddle a bit with the new Apple Mighty Mouse and came away impressed enough to get one for each of my Macs. It feels good in the hand, although the side button is a bit awkward to work but I don't imagine I'd have much use for it anyway.

Still, I might have waited to make my purchase if I'd known this would be available so soon afterward. Crumbs!

Ah, well. I shall simply have to content myself with ordering this DVD collection instead.

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Hip-deep in pie

A THOUSAND WORDS: Y'know, kiddo, if you'd like to put that webcam to some productive use, I'd be more than happy to help you look for your twin.

HIP-DEEP IN PIE: I've returned home to a pile of e-mail and other reading, by far the best of which was this news that every episode of SportsNight is to be released in a DVD package. Anything that increases the amount of Peter Krause in my diet is a very, very good thing. [heads up from Dan]