Hobbit Casting Rumor Season Is a Go!

Martin Freeman appears to be set as Bilbo, which gets a big thumb's up from me. And I didn't even like the movie version of Hitchhiker's.

The other names also floating around as potential cast members, though, are a bit more interesting. In order of geeky magnitude:

- David Tennant (everyone but me's favorite new-school Dr Who). The only part he would make sense for, to me, is that of Elvenking Thrunduil, ruler of the wood elves of Mirkwood -- and Legolas' dad.

- Michael Fassbender (the British spy from Inglorious Basterds). I can see him best as Bard, but Beorn could also be a possibility...

- ...except that Jekyll star Jimmy Nesbitt is also on the list, and if he isn't born to play a werebear I dunno who is. I guess you could shrink him down to dwarf size too, but that seems a waste.

Thank God I Was Never a Big Spider-Man Fan

Otherwise this would make me cry, instead of laugh and laugh and laugh.

Pay No Attention To the Bloke Behind the Curtain

It had to happen. After years of pressure, Banksy has finally broken down and revealed something of his personal life:

Fox News Admits They Aren't a News Organization, And Are Incompetent To Boot

So Robin Carnahan has submitted a motion to dismiss the Fox News suit against her for copyright violation, based on an attack ad she ran against her Senate opponent Roy Blunt that used clips from a Chris Wallace interview.

Carnahan's camp is presenting two really awesome arguments:

1) Fox didn't bother to copyright the footage until after they'd filed the lawsuit.

2) The Fox footage itself contains public domain footage from C-Span, and is thus uncopyrightable.

So Fox isn't just being blatantly partisan, they're being incompetently blatantly partisan. Fantastic.