Pulling Teeth
That’s right, the title says it all.
That’s what writing this front-page update has been like. You could call it “writer’s block”, but that wouldn’t be accurate. It would be more accurate to call it “at a complete loss of what to talk about” or “having nothing new to talk about.”
Yep.
Miles and Rachel
Editors of MONDO
From Friday: Our Evil Plans are Working!
Over the last couple weeks MONDO has been actively (well, kinda passively) trying to attract new writers. We posted notices on boards such as Work in Culture to see if we could get a few more into our fold. And it’s working. Boy, is it ever working. Not only are we seeing a lot of first-time MONDOwriters, we’ve been seeing a nice amount of traffic flowing to the site since the posts. So welcome, Work in Culture-ers.
So, how are you liking the twice a week updates? From what our stats show you’ve not yet been trained to come back on Fridays. I guess that kind of thing takes time. Time is an enemy. Also a great friend. If Time were in a facebook relationship, it would say “it’s complicated.”
But on to more interesting nerding:
Chungking Express? But I’m in The Mood for Love - Now that the dust has settled on the high definition DVD war, Criterion has announced the first crop of films that they will be bringing to Blu-ray. It’s a decent list of films, but I wonder why Criterion chose Won Kar Wai’s Chungking Express over the superior In the Mood for Love. Chungking is his breakthrough work, but come on, it’s not nearly as sad or as sexy as in the Mood for Love. Fingers crossed for batch two.
Do they even make comics anymore? - With the super-crazy-awesome success of Iron Man Marvel Entertainment went ahead to announce that they not only have a sequel in the works, but Mr. Stark will be joined by Thor, Captain America, Ant man, and a full-out Avengers film by the end of 2012. If they can do what they did for Iron Man for Thor or Captain America, Avengers would be like a license to print money. It would be like giving Marvel a Cosmic Cube and telling them to create the world in their own vision because it would be better that way. So, hey, DC, what are you doing after Batman? Anything? Apparently not.
Lousy Old Country - Hawksley Workman’s latest record Los Manlicious was released this week. In Europe. Only in Europe. It’s amazing. Between the Beautifuls just isn’t very good, which is what we get exclusively in North America. Los Manlicious is sexy. Sexy beyond all things known to nature. Why can’t we have that and prime time nudity? Why can’t we be as sexy as the Europeans? Why?
Miles and Rachel
Editors of MONDO