http://www.alanbaxteronline.com According To Me Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:13:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recent comment by Leticia prompted me to investigate this rapidly expanding urban legend. According to many websites and news wires, there is talk that the brilliant Batman movie The Dark Knight is one of those cursed flicks that crop up every once in a while. Remember Poltergeist? What about ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/10/09/is-there-a-dark-knight-curse.html Regular readers will remember that I was talking about a new Australian magazine back in mid-September - Black - Australian Dark Culture. I'm still a bit behind the times on this, but I've just read Issue 2. I'm pleased to say that a lot of the problems I had with Issue ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/10/09/black-australian-dark-culture-issue-2.html My favourite sign of the year so far: . http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/10/09/sympathy-for-wall-street.html I picked this little meme up from S F Signal today: Q: What book are you currently reading? Is it good so far? I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's a book in three parts (at least the version I'm reading is a three volume box set) and ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/10/07/quick-meme-what-are-you-reading-right-now.html I was annoyed enough last week when I was talking about Will Smith planning a sequel to his godawful film version of I Am Legend. Now I hear, from slashfilm.com via Dogmatic, that talk of a sequel to Blade Runner is floating around. Let me start by stating, as I've said ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/10/06/now-a-blade-runner-sequel-please-no.html I'm always game to give a new TV show a solid chance before judging it. And I didn't really have great expectations for the new US series Fringe in the first place. Having seen three episodes now, I have to say that it's pretty weak. Billing itself as something like the ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/10/02/fringe-not-really-all-that-good.html This comes under the banner of the truly ironic. I read in the Sydney Morning Herald today that more than 140 people have been trampled to death in a stampede in Jodhpur in western India. The people were Hindus on a pilgrimage to the 15th-century Chamunda Devi temple. There was ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/09/30/where-was-the-lord-of-the-stampede.html The final episode of VFoS is up on the Serial Novella page now. It all started back on February 24th and now it's over - thirty four (almost) weekly episodes. Today sees a bumper double episode as I've posted the short Epilogue and Episode 34 together. What will I post on ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/09/28/a-verse-full-of-scum-episode-34-finished.html Apparently Will Smith and others are dreaming up a prequel to the awful movie version of I Am Legend. The 1954 book by Richard Matheson is one of my all-time favourites. It's a great mix of horror and sci-fi in the old school style and it's a truly great story. The ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/09/28/i-am-legend-prequel-from-will-smith.html I remember first seeing The Evil Dead so many years ago and thinking it was awesome. I recently came across a DVD for sale that touted itself as the Ultimate Edition. It has two discs, with loads of extras and all sorts of goodies. I haven't got around to checking out ... http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/2008/09/27/the-evil-dead-ultimate-edition.html