Monthly Archives: September 2003

Black News

From an article in Spin about Jack Black:
“At the end of October, Epic will release a lavish Tenacious D DVD set that he promises will be ‘nut draining’ (sorry ladies), compiling all six episodes from the group’s eponymous 1999 HBO series. In April 2004, he’ll costar with Ben Stiller in the big screen comedy Envy, which looks like the King Kong vs. Godzilla of diminutive, seething comedians. And sometime in 2005, he and Tenacious D partner Kyle Gass will drop the band’s first movie, Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny.”

The article also mentions that MTV hasn’t and won’t air the Foo Fighters video he’s in. Boo to MTV!

Also, there’s gonna be a DVD release of the rock videos of Spike Jonze that looks like fun.

Dewey suit update

Lest anybody think that OCLC suing the Library Hotel is silly, keep in mind that it’s a trademark issue, and if they don’t sue, they lose the trademark. Also, the story linked above gives a mistaken impression: OCLC wasn’t looking for money from the hotel; they just needed a licensing agreement in hand to protect their trademark. Now that lawyers are involved, who knows what it will take to make it stop. I couldn’t find a link to the LJ Academic Newswire release below, so here’s the text:

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Er, yum

Do you want cheeseburger fries with that?
Try as I might (and those who know me know that this is exactly the sort of thing I love to eat), I can’t make it sound good. I mean, I’ll try it, of course, but right now I can’t imagine enjoying it.