Gigantor's a Space Age Robot...

Cartoon network will begin airing episodes of the classic cartoon Gigantor. The show will air at 5:30 in the morning on November 1 so make sure to set your TiVo because you probably won't be awake. He's bigger than big baby!

In the meantime you can listen to the Dickies version of the title song on the Great Dictations or Dawn of the Dickies CDs.

gigantor the space age robot
he's at your command
gigantor the space age robot
his power lies in your hands
coz he's bigger than big
taller than tall
quicker than quick
stronger than strong
ready to fight for right against wrong

Must Reading for JLA Fans.

Are you a fan of the Justice League of America, but don't have time to read through 40 years of continuity?

Do you want to know more about this J'onn J'onzz guy, why he is important, and why he is Number One's wife's favorite superhero?

Then you must head over to read Alan Kistler's profile over at Monitor Duty.

Heck, even if you aren't a big JLA fan, but you have even the slightest interest in comic book history this is must reading.

Anne Rice

Hey, this story's making the rounds:

They've been worried about her. After 25 novels in 25 years, Rice, 64, hasn't published a book since 2003's "Blood Chronicle," the tenth volume of her best-selling vampire series. They may have heard she came close to death last year, when she had surgery for an intestinal blockage, and also back in 1998, when she went into a sudden diabetic coma; that same year she returned to the Roman Catholic Church, which she'd left at 18. They surely knew that Stan Rice, her husband of 41 years, died of a brain tumor in 2002. And though she'd moved out of their longtime home in New Orleans more than a year before Hurricane Katrina, she still has property there—and the deep emotional connection that led her to make the city the setting for such novels as "Interview With the Vampire." What's up with her? "For the last six months," she says, "people have been sending e-mails saying, 'What are you doing next?' And I've told them, 'You may not want what I'm doing next'." We'll know soon. In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and—under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure—of soft-core S&M encounters, will publish "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. "I promised," she says, "that from now on I would write only for the Lord." It's the most startling public turnaround since Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" announced that he'd been born again.

Interesting stuff, I think. Later she mentions:

But she sees a continuity with her old books, whose compulsive, conscience-stricken evildoers reflect her long spiritual unease. "I mean, I was in despair." In that afterword she calls Christ "the ultimate supernatural hero ... the ultimate immortal of them all."

Hey, you know what? After she almost dies and her husband passes on, she probably needs all the comfort she can get. Also, it seems mean to demand that she live in a permanent depression so we can have kewl vampire books.

I loved your Vamprie books, but I'm glad you're feeling better, Ann! Forget the nay-sayers.

PS, wonder if it'll be any good? I admit it sounds a bit off, but, hey, it's Anne Rice.

Marvel Comics Attempting to Convert the Middle East into Thor Worshipers!

Marvel Entertainment, will be partnering with Teshkeel Media Group to "bring Arabic-language Marvel comics, trade paperbacks and magazines to the Middle East region. The agreement was announced by Naif Al-Mutawa, CEO of Teshkeel, and Bruno Maglione, President of Marvel International."

From the Desk of J. Jonah Jameson:

This move by Marvel can only be interpreted in one of two ways. Marvel is possibly continuing their insidious plot to advance the "Mutant Agenda" in some misguided attempt to end anti-mutant sentiments in the Middle East. We all know that Marvel has long been seeking to undermine our value systems to get people to think of mutants as anything other than the threat they are. These abominations have enough power to destroy the world! Need I remind anyone of the atrocities Magneto has committed?

The other possibility, and the more likely one in my opinion, is that Marvel desires to convert the world to Thor worship. Rumor has it that "Thorsday" celebrations have already begun in the Middle East, and this reporter has received news of "rain ceremony" sacrifices being made to the Thunder God. With America as the new Rome, will this ancient religion turn the Middle East into a new version of the Gothic hordes who conquered the once great empire?

My only question is what will Apocalypse, aka En Sabah Nur, think? More to the point...what will the people of the Middle East think about Apocalypse (one of Marvel's major supervillains), or of Sabra, aka Ruth Bat-Seraph, the superpowered Israeli special agent?

Who will offend them more?

Apocalypse?

or Sabra?

Two Updates in the PSP Revolution.

Sony is manufacturing a PSP compatible DVR. Take that $2.00 Desperate Housewives download Apple dudes!

Fred Davis at Always On has some interesting things to say as well.

I know that Apple has its loyal Macult members, but this PSP thing is amazing. I don't own one, and have resisted for some time, yet everyday some new pre-existing functionality comes to light. While I am still waiting for a PSP 2 to come along, I look at the PSP as a prototype, the device looks to be taking advantage of all that really cool technology Sony has been developing over the past decade.

[Thanks to Zonereyrie for the links]

A Better Version of Infinite Countdown/Crisis/...

Thanks to Monitor Duty for this link to a Countdown parody.

Will PSP Conquer iPod?

With the PSP, Sony may have begun a move to challenge Apple dominance in the "communications future." Officially there device can already, according to the website, store digital photos on the convenient and multi-compatible Memory Stick, store music in the robust ATRAC3 compression method on Memory Stick or Mini-Disk, Transfer video on those same systems, play games (naturally), and surf the internet at any internet accessible location. But that is not all the PSP can do. Reading Quick Foo today, I found that there is a device which will let you run your PSP on your TV. I don't know if this works, but if it does this means all those PSP movies are now available for easy transport and viewing. We already know, thanks to 1up, that you can read Manga on the PSP.

Seems to me that Sony has designed a device with greater functionality than Apple, but with none of the proprietary baggage.

Now if only I can get people to return to the word "webcasting" instead of "podcasting."