What a movie! Extraordinary.

Heath Ledger, I wish you could know just how far you knocked it out of the park.

I just saw an advance screening of The Dark Knight (thank you Tiffany!). I will only say three things…

1. Heath Ledger was the Joker. He totally nailed it!
2. Edit: Apparently I ruined it for someone EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HINTED IN TRAILER. But just to be safe… REMOVED
3. I WANT A F*CKIN BAT POD!

As for the comic, I’m going to start it tomorrow, it’s 12am right now.

Act I of Dr Horribles’s Sing-Along Blog is out.

Conversation on Twitter…

hawkster: tonight i’m going to see the dark knight!
hackernet: @hawkster How!?!
bpphantom: @hawkster Haaaaaate you. :p
teemonster: @hawkster i hate you.
hawkster: @HackerNet i’m batman (advance screening)
fredrin: @hawkster Batman’s new sidekick – Hawk. Slightly more impressive than “Robin”, he rolls down foes in his impressive HawkBall
hawkster: @fredrin shirt idea, hawk in a bat suit in a hamster ball, chasing piro dressed as joker.

Then fred sent this out…

It sure is. Actually, it’s THE week … the week that Hawk and I, and Yuko, and Fil, and Archer, and everyone else I know has been waiting for. The new Batman movie is coming out, and everyone is abuzz. Fil has had an interesting approach. Convinced (and understandably so) that hype media ruins films, he’s been making a point of leaving the room if a commercial for The Dark Knight appears on TV. If he sees mention it of a website, he closes the window. If a preview begins playing before a movie, he leaves the theater until it’s over. Boy is hardcore … I almost wish I’d thought of it, but I don’t think I could resist the siren call of trailers.

Last week and this week are chock full of prep work for Connecticon and Otakon! We’re trying to get some brand new merch out there for the last two conventions of the season – I’ll be giving you guys sneak peeks as we get closer to the shows! Here’s a look at our newest business cards – I sent off the order last week, so they ought to be arriving in the coming days:

I think they’re looking pretty sexy!

I’ve been re-reading Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson (the last time I read it was a couple of years ago). I’m about halfway through it, and damned if it doesn’t still make me intensely uncomfortable. D: I’m re-reading BOP because I recently read Tricked, one of his newer graphic novels, and I really liked it.

Conrad, John and Yuko are 95% set up at their new place, and it’s pretty nice! Yuko got some great corner shelves from IKEA, so now she has these towering shelves that form a corner of literary hotness. Comics, classical books, reference books, DS games, and so on … I’ll be honest, I’m a little jealous. I want awesome shelves. One day, Ananth … one day … I have a pretty good collection going, and seeing them on a shelf elicits a sort of pleasure that is too intangible to describe.

A KTLA reporter, Eric Spillman, makes fun of the people waiting in line for the new iPhone. At the end, the reporter looks like a total jackass in front of everyone.

If you’re bored at work, here’s a coloring book that is 10,000 pages long.

Remember to stay inside the lines. ;)