Jason F.C. Clarke

I’ve often referred to my love of the 1987 kids’ horror flick The Monster Squad. I’ve been signing online petitions for a DVD for ages. And so it was with great pleasure that I discovered not only is it finally coming out on DVD, but it’s going to be a two-disc special edition! A two-disc special edition of The Monster Squad? I love the world.

Click on the image below to pre-order the monstery goodness.

A creepy metafictional ad campaign for Gotham City DA Harvey Dent has given us the first official image of the Joker from The Dark Knight.

Based just on the picture, I’m guessing Nolan is going for a realistic, serial-killer Joker, rather than the cartoon villain portrayed by Nicholson. And I’m on board. Even in his first comic book appearance the Joker was portrayed as a murdering sociopath, and it looks like that’s the Joker we’ll be seeing in the new movie. I think that’s the right direction for Batman. Here’s hoping there are no silly microwave bombs or speeding trains this time around.

Some friends of mine made a short film a while back called “Rise and Shine.” It was short enough that I suggested (in August, I think) that they put it on YouTube.

At long last, they took my advice.

Rise and Shine

Well, they finally got it working. As expected, they tacked on more time (four extra days) to the Beta to make up for the errors.

I’ve downloaded the client but haven’t had a chance to play yet. I’ll probably toss up a few comments over the weekend after I’ve had my butt sorely kicked by the diehards. In the meantime, check out the Beta-celebratory video from the folks at Red vs. Blue.

In my review of Crackdown, I mentioned that a big part of my reason for wanting the game was the access to the Halo 3 multiplayer beta test. As such, I was pretty excited to give it a try this morning before work.

No dice. Looks like there was a glitch in the servers; as of 3:45 pm today, Crackdown owners still can’t download the beta. A minor disappointment for me, but I can only imagine the reaction of the fanboys. Actually, I don’t have to.

Okay, this is kind of amazing.

I was told today that a pitch I’d made to a major magazine was accepted. I can’t go into specifics—I’m not even close to writing the article yet, and the issue won’t be out for months. But I don’t think it will come as a surprise to anyone who reads this blog.

For the five of you that haven’t seen it, PG-rated 300 spoof.