At my publisher’s house for a Halloween get together and his wife made a kitty litter cake.

Today is my final day of moving. I’m super excited to be getting out of the city (the pic above was taken on my cell phone a week or so ago when I got locked onto the library roof for several hours).

Mike asked to see this.

Either I reallllllyyy like bananas and have thus filled my van with them…or I’m moving & needed the boxes. (Hint: I’m moving) So Ill be back when I have internet again.

Had a few complaints about last week’s “Knowledge Helps” so I thought this week would be the perfect time to follow up with the one above.

I got my absentee ballot in the mail and I was shocked to findout that there are six political parties. What the heck is the “Constitution” party? Never heard of it in my life. At least I’ve seen or read mentionings of the “Green” and “Libertarian” parties. Then it’s not like anyone other then a Democrat or Republician will win, so why even include the other parties on the ballot? Might as well put something like the “Jedi” party.

The “American Observer” did a piece about me and “DAD! A Documentary Graphic Novel.” You can check it out online here:

Kevin King, Scott’s dad, has been struggling with his health for many years. On one trip to the hospital, Scott took three pictures with his cell phone and noticed they were sequential, like a stop-motion movie. Being a film student, as well as a fan of comic books, he came up with the idea of writing “Dad!,” a documentary graphic novel about his relationship with his father and his father’s illness.

Just got word that the beta site for American University’s iTunes U is live. To see what I’ve been doing for the past few months (nothing really exciting if you don’t care about academia) then go here.

Oh hell yeah… “DEXTER” one of the best shows on TV just got renewed for two more seasons (each will consist of the tweleve episodes). Today is a good day!

I got an email from people who said they attended a test screening of “Watchmen” last weekend and in it they said the ending of the movie was different from the book. I thought it was just a stupid email until I saw that /Film and other places were reporting the same story. Since we are talking spoilers, I’ll post the details after the break: (Read on …)

It has been four years since the original “Fable” came out and this RPG sequel is supposedly everything that the first game was supposed to be, yet wasn’t. My fingers are crossed that it will be total awesomeness. I’ll have a full review in a few days!

Oh Hell YEAH! “Call of Duty: World at War” doesn’t come out for three weeks, but over the weekend I got myself into the multiplayer beta testing! So far I’m absolutly loving it. The game gets back to it’s World War II roots, but it’s just as intense and crazy as COD4. Hopefully I’ll have a full beta-review by the end of the week… though between this and “Fable 2,” don’t be surprise if my posts this week are sparce.

So the fourth book in the “Twilight” series is a piece of crap that should be burned… but the first three are really good and if you even remotely like vampires or YA fiction then you should try them out. The books rely on a lot of internal monologue for the main character and I’ve been really curious as to how the movie would handle this, so I really enjoyed this indeepth interview with the screen writer who adapted the book:

Well, in the book there’s a lot of rich internal dialogue, [but] it’s really in Bella’s head. It’s hard to do that in a movie. And I wanted the movie to be from Bella’s perspective, but at first I really struggled with how to get into her head without using voiceover. A lot of it meant making her have conversations with others in which that internal dialogue could be externalized. It was really about unfolding how she figures out that Edward is a vampire. Who could she have that conversation with? I think I was pretty successful in doing that.

Set your calendar. The final 11 episode run of “Battlestar Galactica” starts on Jan. 16th, 2009. This means the show’s series finale will air around March 20th.

Nelson released the first week of their DVR stats and it seems that “Fringe” is the most DVR’d show on television, which gained 20% more viewers! Other shows who did well include “Hereos” (gained 19% more viewers), “House” (gained 18% more viewers), “The Office (gained 17% more viewers) and “Grey’s Anatomy” who with DVR stats makes it the most watched show on TV with a total of 21.16 million viewers.

The new issue of “Entertainment Weekly” shines a lot of light on what the plot of the new “Star Trek” movie is:

Star Trek’s time-travel plot is set in motion when a Federation starship, the USS Kelvin, is attacked by a vicious Romulan (Eric Bana) desperately seeking one of the film’s heroes. From there, the film then brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. In fact, the movie shows how the whole original series crew came together: McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). The adventure stretches from Earth to Vulcan, and yes, it does find a way to have Nimoy appearing in scenes with at least one of the actors on our cover — and maybe both.

This sound eerily similar to the spoiler filed plot that was all around the internet this summer. I’ll post that after the break: (Read on …)

He may have defeated the MPAA, but ads for Kevin Smith’s “Zach and Mira Make a Porno” are getting pulled from all over the place.

Among those refusing to carry ads are about 15 newspapers and several TV stations and cable channels, Faber said. Commercials for the film during Los Angeles Dodgers games on Fox Sports were dropped at the team’s request after some viewers complained, said Dodgers spokesman Josh Rawitch.

I was at the bookstore writing when all of a sudden the DC police came in and made us evacuate. When I got outside I counted 5 fire trucks, 3 ambulances, too many cop cars to count and a roadblock on Wisconsin ave. UPDATED: turns out a guy was pushed onto a subway track and the chase lead him into the mall that the book store is connected to.

Whether you are an adult, kid, or anything between, Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” is something you shouldn’t miss. The book is more or less a collection of short stories of the adventures of Bod and his ghostly family. Told as a homage to “The Jungle Book,” Gaiman brings his own flare for descriptions and humor is a way that I’ve never seen before. So a MUST READ for anyone who likes to read.

So HBO and “Deadwood” creator David Milch really screwed fans over by canceling the fourth and final season of the show and then lying about doing two movies to wrap up plot lines. To make up for this, Milch is spilling the beans on what would’ve happened had the show ended properly:

Among its two hours of bonus materials is something called “The Meaning of Endings” described as “creator David Milch’s discussion on what would have happened had the ‘Deadwood’ series continued” in an HBO Home Entertainment press release Tuesday.

Of course you’ll have to spend $176 bucks for the Complete Deadwood DVD set to watch the bonus feature. Assholes! They should post it online and give it to the fans for free. I’m glad Milch’s stupid “Cincinati” show sucked and now HBO won’t let him do anything else.

Man, Tina Fey really hates her bizzro-double, Sarah Palin.

“We’re gonna take it week by week. If she wins, I’m done. I can’t do that for four years,” Fey told the magazine, out Thursday. “And by ‘I’m done,’ I mean I’m leaving Earth.

I mean was it really necessary to say she’d leave Earth? And let’s be honest. Does she really have the funds to pay for a perminent spot on the space station? I doubt it.

I was asked recently “What are you favorite shows on TV?” Since I watch almost everything it’s hard for me to be like “Dude X, Y, and Z” are sooo my favorite shows. However I’ve recently realized that there are a few shows I generally watch live (or in the case of same time slots… RIGHT after the other), where everything else I watch DVR’d. Those show (in no order):

• Privileged
• Greek
• Brothers & Sisters
• Gossip Girl
• Supernatural
• Chuck

The season premiere of “Start Wife” had a large plot revealing around a journal and it got me thinking… Do people actually journal on a regular basis? I don’t mean a blog or an emo-blog in the vein of old-school live journal. I mean actual pen and paper journals. Do people still do those? Did anyone ever really do them?

People have too much free time.