Author: Tom Coates

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Today on Barbelith: Planet of the 80s TV remakes – “Old TV series never die, they just bring out the film. It happened with the Flintstones. It happened with Scooby Doo. And now it’s happening – or so Dame Rumour would have us believe – with the A-Team. Whisky Priestess reports.”

All teen crushes are embarrassing I suppose. In the spirit of self revelation, here are links to a few of mine: Dirk Benedict, Steve Guttenberg and Patrick Duffy.

I’ve been planning to write an article for Barbelith for a while now about the inherent facism of super-heroes. Today I found some interesting support for my case – an article by David Brin at Salon about despotism and egalitarianism in two of the most significant science-fiction franchises. Well worth a read: “Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists.

Bring out the homoerotics of superheroes – the World’s Finest Superhero Team-Ups. Can you identify them all? Warning: Contains pictures of men snogging each other. [via Barbelith Underground]

More news than you might ever have actually wanted: “Christine Hamilton eyed me up and down then asked me if I’d ever tried it with a woman.”

Up until five in the morning talking with Ralph. I’m completely exhausted today. It’s nearly four in the afternoon and I’m not even vaguely ready for the world.

Matt is currently obsessed by flash movies. Completely obsessed. The latest one he’s found (and posted to Haddock is Thatcher, fish and bunny dominated. Entertaining, but odd.

Derek has a new book out. You should go buy yourself a copy of this book. And when you have done with the ‘buying-yourself-a-copy’ thing, you should go and buy me a copy. Then you can relax. But not until then. You understand?

Another example of the complete moral bankrupcy of politicians. Despite being vehemently opposed to abortion, Bush OKs Stem Cell Funding. Presumably abortion doesn’t have the potential for profit that stem-cell research does.