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Force This

Yeah, another article on on the fans lining up at Grauman’s… But I had to blog this segment:

Sarah Sprague, 31, was growing testy as she tried to say the same thing to a sports reporter calling from Detroit.

“Yeah, I know it’s just a movie,” she said. “You’ve been reporting on sports, and you ask me whether I have a life?”

Then she asked the reporter if he wasn’t wasting his life covering 40 Tiger baseball games this year, referring to the team as “that losing cause.”

Detroit’s most famous sports reporter is Mitch Albom of the Free Press, known for saccharine writing and, more on the point, an article from 1999 about how Star Wars geeks need to get a life. Because everyone knows sports fans are always sane and dignified.

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A Beginner’s Guide To “Lost”

Something Awful has posted a hilarious beginner’s guide to “Lost.”

When Lost premiered on ABC, it ruined the channel’s long-standing tradition of not having very many viewers. Mixing drama, mystery, adventure and suspense in a unique way, it’s a terrific show. The only people I personally know who don’t like it only watched one or two random episodes several weeks after it started, which is a lot like walking in on your parents having sex mid-coitus instead of hiding in the closet beforehand and getting the full experience. Want to see what all the fuss is about but missed the beginning? Fret not, I’ll get you caught up.

When does this show come out on DVD?

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Not the line you’re looking for

Remember the folks waiting for Revenge of the Sith at Grauman’s Chinese Theater? They’re in the wrong line.

“The telling thing is — for me, at least — if the film is not playing at the Chinese … I have zero desire to see it at all,” a fan who calls himself Obi Geewhyen posted on the message board at Liningup.net. “I’m in it for the lineup only and don’t give a darn about the conclusion of this lackluster, so-called ‘Star Wars’ series.”

How touching.

The story has been pretty widespread: Boing Boing, Metafilter, and Slashdot all blogged it and it’s pretty much spread all over by now. Nothing like laughing at a bunch of crazy geeks to bring the internet together.

UPDATE 4/7: The story’s made it to mainstream media, and Defamer is on the case.

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Eccleston quits Dr Who

Christopher Eccleston quits his role as Dr Who just one day after the BBC ordered a second season of the cult classic.

Eccleston, whose first appearance as the ninth Doctor attracted 10 million viewers, said he feared being typecast.

Bookies have tipped Casanova actor David Tennant as the hot favourite to replace Eccleston as the Time Lord, with odds of 1/10.

Other contenders for the role include Bill Nighy and comedian Eddie Izzard.

Boo Who!