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Castle on TV: Hyper-reality blurs with reality a little bit more

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Castle on TV: Hyper-reality blurs with reality a little bit more

Castle is an ABC crime show, in the more humorous vein of shows like the Mentalist and Psych. The shows titular lead, Richard Castle, (Nathan Fillion of Firefly and Dr. Horrible fame) is a mystery writer on par with Patterson or Cannell, fresh off killing his main character out of boredom. Meanwhile Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic, The Spirit) is looking at two seemingly unrelated murders with one odd thing in common: Both were killed almost exactly like murders out of Castle’s books. She brings him in for questioning, leading to him volunteering to help with the case because of his familiarity with the crimes, which turns into a more permanent partnership as he decides to base his new book on her. But that's not why I've writing on the show, great as it is. I'm writing about Castle because they actually wrote the book he finished about Beckett last episode. So what is it when you have a book purporting to copy a book that doesn't exist? Welcome to third order simulacra and the blurring of reality.

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Just to confirm, Nathan Fillion is freaking awesome

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Just to confirm, Nathan Fillion is freaking awesome

This man not only plays the straight-funny man in movies and certain singing blogs, but he's damned funny in his own right as well.

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Paradox Interactive wants your mug in their video game

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Paradox Interactive wants your mug in their video game

Paradox and Nitro Games are holding a contest in which you send in your portrait and they turn your face into a 48x48 pixel version of, well your face. But in a captains outfit! You'll be embedded forever in their forthcoming game East India Company.

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