Do you think your game is something that couldn't be made 10 years ago, or simply wasn't made 10 years ago?

Dever will eventually get her moment in the sun, she's too talented not to.

Yep, there's still stuff from that hanging in the other bit of pop culture hanging around IC, the Hamburg Inn, which was (vaguely) featured on an episode of The West Wing, and is where presidential candidates eat during the two months of the year where Iowa is relevant on a national stage.

Iowa doesn't have a whole lot pop culturally to set it apart, and even though it's the best city in Iowa, Iowa City doesn't really either, but it does my heart a lot of good to know that Bloom County was written in Iowa City, and featured plenty of IC landmarks. There's original Berkely Breathed art hanging in the…

…says the Doctor Who fan.

My dream musical is just to translate Sam's Town directly to the stage, it's already got a great (if basic) "I want to leave my town" plot, and the entrelude/exitlude.

"And finally, in music news, the number one single of this week is by 'Better than Ezra'. At number two?

Look at these poor sad people who are nowhere near a Pancheros.

I think the best part of this movie (or one of the best parts, anyways) is how it's not a movie that's hiding a debate about abortion, or some sort of statement meant to convince the world that pro-choice is the way to go, but it just assumes that the audience is on it's side. The way it presents abortion as a matter…

Uh, Miss Casey Wilson is also an incredibly good example of this.

Wayne Coyne: Friends with Kesha.

Feist contributed vocals to Life's a Happy Song in The Muppets.

The tough thing about being able to discern a character's talent on a TV show is that it's a lot easier for everyone else to tell the audience how good the character is than to actually try to show the audience. Take a look at Studio 60, which is supposed to be a TV Show about an SNL-quality sketch comedy show, but…

It's a lot more interesting to assume that the filmmaker is far smarter than you, and try to piece together what the film might be trying to say, than to assume they aren't and try to figure out how you would have made it.

No, it's a serious story about what it means to be a Superhero in an age where a terrorist attack like 9/11 isn't stopped.

It's better to assume that the filmmaker is smarter than you rather than not as smart as you. Every choice made in making a movie is made for a reason, and asking yourself "why was this choice made in service of the story" is a lot better than "my god, *why*?" 300 is a war allegory in the same vein as Starship…

Where do you not see it? Zack Snyder is obviously a smart guy, because not-smart people don't direct major league movies, period. Even someone like Uwe Boll is smart enough to make a movie (that's probably a bad example, because Boll's intelligence is obvious, considering he made his movies as one giant tax break for…

Start with Dawn of the Dead. It's written by James Gunn and even a lot of people who dislike Snyder really like it. After that just start watching his movies in order. Sucker Punch should be the last thing you watch, because if you go into the movie without a pretty clear picture of his particular style and sense of…

Watchmen was written as a response to the increasing trend of "Grim-n-Gritty" vigilante anti-heroes that started up around the time Alan Moore wrote it, and the mood of the book was very much informed by the political atmosphere of the time, w/r/t the Cold War. The movie took the basic story that Watchmen told and…

You know what the awesome thing about mythological characters like Superman is? People can adapt their stories not just to tell the same story again, but to fit the character to a particular time, place, and idea. It's like saying that Disney "raped" the Hercules legend: silly.