Hump Day Tab-Clearing!

Time to weed out some of these pesky Firefox tabs and share the linky goodness with my loyal readers! To wit…

The Trouble With Twitter is another ill-informed anti-twitter pronouncement, this time from a journalism professor. The comment at 6:41 from “lisarosenthal” nails my reaction to the piece exactly.
A realty company with a really bad PR sense is suing a former tenant for tweeting about mold in her apartment to her 20 followers.
The movie is called Hot Tub Time Machine and it looks awesome!
Kanye West needs a booster shot of self esteem. Poor guy.
Could the World Cup come to the US in 2018 or 2022? Is soccer football fever catching on in the states?
It’s already everywhere on the internets, but Shatner’s recital of Palin’s swan song is worth seeing if you’ve missed it.
I have it on pretty good authority that I’ll be getting one of these for my birthday.
I take this announcement from Marvel that they purchased the rights to Marvelman/Miracleman with a large and litigious grain of salt.

1 Comments

On July 29, 2009, Greg Giordano said:

Responding to Marvelman story:
the thing is- Even Alan Moore has admitted recently That WARRIOR magazine publisher Dez Skinn did not have any ownership of the characters in the Marvelman family, nor their stories. He was merely borrowing the characters for revision by Moore. in the following article- http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/05/the-mighty-moore-marathon-part-three-of-padraigs-talk-with-alan-moore/ Moore confirms Anglo’s ownership of the original characters. I can’t remember where I read this other part to the story- but it was in the last few months- that rights given to Skinn by Anglo(now in his 90′s) were not extended to the rest of the run published by Eclipse. Marvel has only purchased the rights to use the original charactes, not the stories or re-imagining of Marvelman/Miracleman. No matter what the quagmire may or may not be vis a vis Alan Moore and subsequent authors’ Miracle/Mavelman stories, that has nothing to do with whether Mick Anglo the consistent and perpetual owner of the original characters has the right to sell his characters, stories and all assets related to Marvel Comics. Anglo sold the original Marvelman intellectual assets to Marvel Comics- so , really, nothing to be litigious about.