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P:S Update (P:S)

Culture

• Busy Time for Writers (P:S Symposium)
• Final Fantasy Swords Seized (P:S Symposium)
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Movie

• Transformers 2 Tale Told (P:S Symposium)
• Star Trek Teaser Trailer (P:S HQ)
• Iron Man Invincible Comic (P:S Symposium)
• Superhero Movie Trailer (P:S HQ)

TV / Series

• Second Look: Space: Above and Beyond (P:S Symposium)

Music

• New Abney Park Tunes (P:S Symposium)

Webcomics

• Kiss Casanova Starchild
• Girl Genius

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In defiance of the now ended writers’ strike, Michael Bay has been writing for the upcoming Transformers 2

“I’ve been writing Transformers 2,” Bay told the site [Rotten Tomatoes]. “We’ve got our characters all designed. I always write all my scripts, my movies, anyway, so at least I’ve got something to give the writers. It’s like a template. We have a really good outline so I worked on that (via SCI FI Wire).”

Bay tried to spin his defiance of the Strike as simply making an outline for the writers to work from. Now that the setting has been established, he is planning for all hell to break loose in the next flick when it come out in June 2009.

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Music

• ROB ZOMBIE: ‘Record Labels Are Dinosaurs Waiting To Die’ (via Blabbermouth)

Movie

• Tentative Deal reached (via Peter David)
• Common Confirms He’s Green Lantern In ‘Justice League’ (via MTV Movies Blog)
• Ratatouille Sweeps Annies (via Sci Fi Wire)

Books

• Neil Gaiman needs your help (via Neil Gaiman)

Culture

• Gaylactic Winners Announced (via Sci Fi Wire)

Game

• Discs Returns To Tron (via Sci Fi Wire)
• First screens of Lego Indiana Jones (via El33tonline)

TV / Series

• Samuel L. To Lend His Voice To The Clone Wars? (via The Force)

Webcomics

• Girl Genius
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Equality

• Tax Rebate Inequality (via Justin Feed)

Writers

• WGA, Marvel sign interim agreement (via UPI)

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

• Jet Wing will sort of fulfill your dreams of flight (via DV!CE)

TV/Series

• Doctor Who Series 4 Update (via Doctor Who)
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Movies

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• THE 69 EYES: “I Wonder What The STONES Did At Their 20th Anniversary” (via BW&BK)
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• Videos (Thanks Bill)
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Myth and Poetry

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Steam

• Steampunk Star Wars (P:S Symposium)

Movies

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TV/Series

• Knight Star’s Knee Recovers (via Sci Fi Wire)

Games

• Crisis Core Episode I – Zack and Angeal (P:S HQ via Gay Gamer)
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Web

• Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project (via TechCrunch, thanks Veronica)

Webcomics

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Writers’ Strike

• Striking writers talk of launching web startups (via Boing Boing)

Music

• METALLICA – Classic ‘85 Donington Performance Up For Free Mp3 Download (via Brave Worlds)
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TV/Series

• Hyperspace 4.0

Games

• More Details on Final Fantasy IV’s Sequel (via 1up)
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Web Comic

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Writers’ Strike

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Books

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Joost Update

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Writer’s Strike

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On a Lighter Note

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Baseball Stars 2 (1992, NEOGEO, 900 Wii points)–Baseball Stars 2 is the sequel to highly addictive NES title. Who doesn’t remember playing as the “American Dreams?” The sequel added even more arcade-style action along with more gameplay modes.

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The Spirit of Gene Roddenberry rose up and tried to return Star Trek to its core values:

As the Writers Guild of America strike goes on, “Trek Day” has been declared by the WGA for Monday, December 10, to picket outside the main Melrose gate at Paramount Pictures — and supportive Star Trek fans are being asked to take part as well as writers, directors, crew and actors from any incarnation of Gene Roddenberry’s world from the past 42 years (STARTREK.COM)

It will be interesting to see if any of the actors, writers, or the director of the up coming prequel will take part in the demonstrations. I doubt that they will, but I hope to be delightfully surprised. With the strike on going, and the rewrites on the script canceled because of the strike, the new film is a true product of the WGA action (for better or worse).

I am just pleased to see a little social conscience out of a franchise that had been reduced to little more than cliched action films. The Great Bird smiles on this. May the writers win their demands and prosper.

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