Via Coilhouse I discovered this lovely bit of editing magic: Ghostbusters 1954. (If you don’t read Coilhouse, you should. In fact, stop reading us and go read them.)
It takes a whole lot to get me excited about a video game, and there’s no bigger kiss of mediocrity than putting the word “Batman” behind one.
Don’t get me wrong: I love Batman. He is easily my favorite superhero, if only because he has the best stable of villains in existence. This love was born while watching the absolutely amazing Batman: The Animated Series as a kid, the rock on which DC built over a decade of genuinely entertaining cartoons.
While we’re on the subject, here’s a question for the audience: Who would you cast as Holmes in a new movie? Is Downey the best pick? Is there someone you wish you could resurrect for it? Tell us in the comments.
Robert Downey Jr. as a brilliant, weirdo drug addict. Type-casting.
It’s not that I don’t understand the concerns of the hardcore Holmes nuts when they see the trailer:
Holmes is…flipping around! Jumping out of windows! FIGHTING people! With his fists! And weapons! It looks like…an action movie! What the hell?
I was ambivalent about the whole thing myself there for a moment. But then I realized it’s not me that’s attached to Holmes as a dark, eccentric armchair detective who solves cases with his brilliant, twisted mind and has no use for physical confrontations. It’s me at 12 years old.
True story: I was once had the shit kicked out of me for reading Sherlock Holmes…
It’s Wednesday, and here at PLACEBO’s online labs that means one thing: It’s time to don our berets, break out the cigarette holders and go appreciate some ARTS. Jesse Helms would be proud.
Our first-ever People Who Draw Things installment is Miss Mindy, who just released the first collection of paper dolls to ever turn me on a little. I can’t help it, it’s something about the missing teeth and peg legs….
Miss Mindy's Sassy Paper Doll Bonanza (used with permission)
As a blog, PLACEBO will try not to become yet another Boing Boing-style disambiguation site. That is, we want to make content, not link to it.
But some things are interesting enough they deserve the nod, and here’s one: For a few months Dan Aykroyd’s been selling Crystal Head Vodka, which is special because it comes in a big glass skull. It’s also quadruple distilled through diamonds, and the makers insist it has no additives.
