So I could mention the Rye v Redhill game yday - but u will have to be happy with my awesome fresh $5 Nanna Burger with the Lot, or Cats snatching victory by 1 point against Hawks.. but the most I can offer is some links to Comic-Con which after SXSW is the conference I’d most like to go to. There is a bonus Amazon buying Zappos link (zappos didnt want to sell, moritz did) and a Polyvore set from earlier in week. But I’m off to High Tea at The Windsor, so I’m cleaned up + off to indulge in a sugard up weekend of CBD highbrow joy. L8R.
Sepinwall on the Unaired Dollhouse eps which were gr8 btw : “What concerns me, though, is that “Epitaph One” is such a game-changer for the series — revealing so much about what the show is really about, and what the future has in store for all the regulars — that it’s somewhat alarming to think it’s only going to be on the DVD, especially since Joss said they fully intend to follow up on it over the course of season two. We’ll check in on some of the 2019 characters, Whedon intends to explore the parameters (logistically and morally) of what can be done with the imprinting tech, along similar lines to what’s discussed in “Epitaph One,” and the new season is even going to be shot in the same more immediate (and inexpensive) visual style as this episode.“
The Fringe Panel about Pacey sounded excellent : “Saying that they expected to reveal the show’s alternate universe, “Fringe” executive producer Alex Kurtzman thought the shift would be revealed in Season 3 or 4, not on the freshman season of the Fox drama. “We always knew we were going to do the alternate universe, it just happened sooner,” he said. As for Josh Jackson’s Peter being from said alternate universe, the actor said: “As an actor, you never want to read the line ‘And he looks at Peter’s grave.’” “I love that the audience now knows something that Peter doesn’t,” Jackson said.”
PE_Hub on Amazon acquisition of Zappos (+/or check the Jeff Bezos video about customer centric biz) : “Zappos was financially strong enough to wait for the IPO market to recover, if it chose to go that route. The source, a Zappos shareholder who has seen the company’s income statement reports, said that the company did over $1 billion in gross revenue in 2008, $625 million in net revenue and had an EBITA greater than $40 million. Zappos had raised $49.1 million from venture investors since its inception, most of it from Sequoia, The Zappos shareholder, who says he has seen the company’s capitalization tables, says Sequoia had a 3x or 3.5x liquidity preference associated with the shares it purchased. “When Mike [Moritz, a GP with Sequoia] came in, he came in at a high valuation, but he countered that with a very high liquidation preference,” the shareholder says. “It puts management on one side of the table and investors on the other. Then there’s always pressure to sell the company.” Moritz, the sources say, wanted Zappos to sell while Hsieh wanted to remain independent.”
Diablo Cody : (@ComicCon talking abouthe Megan Fox schlock horror Diablo written Jennifer’s Body) “When I first set out to write this, I intended to write something very dark, very brooding, traditional slasher movie, and then I realized about a third of the way into the process that I was incapable of doing that, because the humor kept seeping in. I have a macabre sense of humor; a lot of the things in the movie that are horrifying are funny to me. I’ve always said that I think comedy films and horror films are kind of similar, in that you can witness the audience having a physical release. They’re laughing, they’re screaming, it’s not a passive experience.”
Dexter Animated Series @ ComicCon : “Dexter: Early Cuts will be a series of animated webisodes, featuring voiceover by Michael C Hall, that details some of the character’s earliest kills. We’ll see him develop his surgical technique in a darkly graphic style on sho.com. Showtime didn’t show off any footage, but we did see one painted-looking image that was appropriately dark and moody.”
