Pssst!
Bagheera: "You distract him and I'll knock the kibble off the shelf. He's slow—we'll make out like bandits."
Revolution In The Head
Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties is, quite simply, the best book ever published about the Beatles and their music. Its first half is the best description of the '60s I've ever read; its second half is a track by track exploration of the songs and the process of recording them. It's out of print in the USA, but there's a new edition available in the UK and it can be ordered from the link. Do yourself a favor and read this book if the Beatles mean anything to you at all.
Shawshank's Got Back
Pure genius.
Slate Lauds Weird Al
According to Sam Anderson, "To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork."
Slate On Bob Marley
I'm a reggae snob, so I began reading this article with suspicion. I was wrong, Field Maloney knows his Wailers—and he knows that the Wailers' best recordings are seldom heard here in the 'States. If you haven't heard Soul Rebels, African Herbsman, and Rasta Revolution, you haven't heard them at their best. The American releases were way too prettied up and defanged. If you think you love Bob Marley, you must hear African Herbsman. Full stop—end of story.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
B. R. Myers didn't like Denis Johnson's National Book Award winning Tree of Smoke muchhttp://www.theatlantic.com:80/doc/200712/vietnam">much;.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters
Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
The feature length movie (link is to trailer) has become the "most viewed film in Finland," having been seen by three million people in the last 60 days.
Stardust Coming to the Screen
Neil Gaiman's lovely little fairy tale is going to be a movie. This could be good news, since Stardust has a deliberately simple storyline, unlike most of Gaiman's oeuvre and offers the best chance of a straight movie adaptation.
Stargate SG-1 Turns 200
I have a soft spot for this show, but what really impresses me about this article on the long-running series is that the Sci-Fi network stuck with the show and worked to get viewers versed in its backstory and mythos, instead of just moving it to different time-slots each week like the "real" networks do.