JFCC - Jason F.C. Clarke

Heath Ledger IS the Joker

Posted under Asides on August 1st, 2006 by JFCC

From Batman Sequel Title & Casting Confirmed!:

As a follow up to last year’s blockbuster Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan is set to direct Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight, written by Jonathan Nolan, based on a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. The film will be produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan. Additionally, Christian Bale will resume his role as Bruce Wayne and Academy Award nominee Heath Ledger has been cast as The Joker. The announcements were made today by Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.

Countdown to Batman/Joker Brokeback jokes: 10…9…8…

Digital telepathy

Posted under Blog on July 28th, 2006 by JFCC

I’ve started to follow the news recently (after staying away from much of the news media, for my mental health) and came across this article about the development of hardware that will allow us to control mechanical devices with our minds. According to the article, scientists have already managed to implant a chip in a quadriplegic man’s brain that allowed him to use his mind as a controller. The article goes on to claim that eventually people will be able to interact not only with the Internet via their minds, but with the thoughts of other people, going way beyond Snow Crash and even The Matrix.
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RSS feeds

Posted under Asides on July 28th, 2006 by JFCC

Sean pointed out to me that I didn’t have feeds to my various RSS capabilities available (for instance, you couldn’t add a Live Bookmark in Firefox). I’ve now rectified the situation, or appear to have. If you have any trouble with the RSS feeds, let me know.

Keep in touch

Posted under Asides on July 25th, 2006 by JFCC

It’s interesting how, when you end an email with the expression “Keep in touch,” what you’re really saying is, “I’m ending this particular round of correspondence and hope I don’t have to write to you again for quite some time.” And in some instances it could arguably mean “Never email me again.”

It doesn’t have quite the same connotation in a meatspace letter, but in an email, “Keep in touch” is definitely a suggestion that the person not do so in the near future.

Director in the Mud

Posted under Blog, Movies on July 24th, 2006 by JFCC

What with all the M. Night Shyamalan bashing going on over his latest dopus (as in opposite of opus) Lady in the Water, I thought I might remind you that Mr. Shyamalan’s been on a slide for some time and direct your attention to The Journal of the Alien from “Signs”, which I wrote back in 2002.

I also added two other old fake-news articles from a previous BBn incarnation, Mr. Owl is a Lying A-Hole and Economics Study Claims “Free Parking Prize” Destabilizes Monopoly. All were published in May 2002 in the old BBn.

I’d post “Warcraft Orcs Stray into Sims City,” which I also wrote for BBn, but an updated version of that piece will be published next month in ToyFare #110.

JS&MN Page Tracker

Posted under Asides on July 24th, 2006 by JFCC

Done!

JS&MN Page Tracker

Posted under Asides on July 21st, 2006 by JFCC

Page 467 of 782 (60%). Elapsed time: six days.

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Posted under Asides on July 20th, 2006 by JFCC

Page 427 of 782 (55%). Elapsed time: five days.

Mark Fitzsimmons, 1951-2006

Posted under Blog on July 19th, 2006 by JFCC

From The Patriot Ledger:

A South Shore attorney and former state representative died in a drowning accident on Nantucket.

Mark Fitzsimmons, 55, of Marshfield, died Friday afternoon when he apparently became caught in a riptide off the south shore of the island near Clark’s Cove.

Mark was a good friend of my father’s and our family. It was Mark who bodily hauled my father out of class his senior year of high school and marched him down to the guidance counselor’s office to fill out an application to Harvard. Twenty-five years later, Mark—despite being a Yalie himself—helped me during my own admissions process to Harvard.

Mark and my father shared a good-natured rivalry for decades, my father being a Harvard Republican and Mark being a Yalie Democrat. I went to The Game (the Harvard vs. Yale football game) with my dad and Mark several times. He was a good man, a funny guy, and a damned good lawyer, from what I’ve heard.
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JS&MN Page Tracker

Posted under Asides on July 18th, 2006 by JFCC

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (no relation—to my knowledge, anyway).

Current page: 353 of 782.

Elapsed time: Three days.

Assessment so far: Very good, very entertaining, very British. I think a lot of American writers tend to come up with a plot and stick close to it (especially in fantasy writing), whereas British authors seem to write with a vague conception of where they’re going but with all sorts of digressions here and there. They wander down the path of the plot and stop to take small side-paths—”What’s this?” “What’s that over there?”—and it isn’t until you finish the book that you (and possibly the writer as well) can see which apparent digressions were important to the plot and which were just pleasant little diversions. That said, Clarke is a very good writer, and these are very good diversions.

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