Tracy Morgan will host ‘Saturday Night Live’ in his return to performing
Man, I haven’t watched an episode of SNL live in years upon years. But Tracy Morgan’s first return to performing demands that I break that streak this fall.
Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s ‘Red’ going to NBC as TV series
Ellis and Hamner have already seen Red adapted on the big screen. Now the duo shall watch as their work is taken to the, uh, small screen? Heycoolwhateverandall, but how can they possibly replace Helen Mirren?
Report: Apple is already looking to test its self-driving car
Apple wants to infect you, friends. Your brain. Your palms. And now your car. When the GoogleSkyAppleNetApocalypse kicks off, you’re going to have your choice of which sentient car will drive you to the prison camps. That’s what it’s looking like after this report. The Google Car? Or the Apple Car? Either way — it’s the dirt mines for you, with the rest of humanity.
Monday Morning Commute: They Didn’t Know They Were Already Dead
They didn’t know they were already dead. Carl and Martina had been chosen to pilot the last space-ship on Mars onto the Asteroid. They were supposed to till the Helium to power the rest of the Martians home to Europa.
They didn’t they were already dead. Some fatal flaw within the wiring, some poor-man’s rigging of This or That combustible chemical dispenser was waiting for that first thrust post-orbit to vaporize Carl. To vaporize Martina. To vaporize their hopes of getting everyone home.
They didn’t know they were already dead. As the Martians stared at the faint silver glimmer that was their doomed space-ship taking flight, puncturing the skin of the atmosphere to leave for the Asteroid, they felt hope for the first time since they could remember. The entire planet cobbled together the materials for the space-ship. The entire planet’s intellect poured into reimagining a type of vessel not used for decades. The entire planet’s hopes, literally, ham-handedly symbolically, invested into the space-ship.
They didn’t know they were already dead.
Mad Mad: Fury Road’s First Draft was this 1999 electro-board print-out
Mad Max: Fury Road is my favorite movie of the year, running. But how much better could it have been, if it cleaved directly to this drawn-out first draft from 1999? One erotic mud dance better.
Pixar has announced its Dia de los Muertos film, ‘Coco’, by the ‘Toy Story 3’ team
Pixar is finally letting us in on its long-in-development Dia de los Muertos movie. At D23, the company officially unveiled the movie, known as Coco.
Darth Vader-themed limited edition PlayStation 4 is coming; bundled with classic games
I don’t fuck with themed or limited-edition consoles. ‘Cause, I don’t know, committing the aesthetic of an entire console to one game or property just ain’t my thing. But if I did fuck with them! Oh boy, would this be a console worth considering. (I’m hoping the games will be available, outside of this bundle?)