EXTRA CRITICUM

Let's Fight About Spartacus.

I'm late to the game.  I didn't catch the show when it first on Starz last year, and I am only now catching up on Netflix (thank you.)

I love the show.  It is a comic book mash up of 300 and HBO's Rome.  It has buckets of blood, and more than a lot of sex and nudity (women AND men) to make my wife blush.

Crawling out from under a rock.

Yeah.  That's right.

I've been under a rock.  Both creatively and... well... I can't say realistically, because, that would mean I've been crushed by a mighty weight since the last time I have posted here.... and there are no broken bones, so I guess I have to go with creatively and figuratively. 

Innovation vs. Creativity

Great post from Louise K. Stevens on the ArtsMaket blog. (thanks to Thomas Cott of "You've Cott Mail" for pointing this out)

Hey, That Didn’t Suck at All!

Let Me In finally found its way to the top of my Netflix queue, and you know, I liked it. (Here's my grumpy response to the news that they were remaking the original.)

Biggest Oscars 2011 Surprise? The girl can belt!

I'm not generally a huge fan of the Broadway belt but I gotta hand it to her. Annie Hathaway really delivered a respectable musical-theatre performance last night. Good girl! Maybe she'll soon be announced for the movie adaptation of the Broadway adaptation of the movie adaption of... Check this out: