May 8, 2014: News of Note!

Hollywood bemoans its lack of experienced writing producers.  And, presumably, Starbucks coffeehouses: http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/showrunners-wanted-networks-grapple-with-lack-of-experienced-writing-producers/

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Drew Magary (author of the terrific The Postmortal) confirms what we’ve all suspected for a while now: Facebook is dead.

“Apart from the long-standing complaints about privacy and insufferable people posting pictures of their own feet from a fucking beach, it’s really only useful as a one-time thing. You make your account. You look up old classmates. And you either a) see if they still look good and then go gratify yourself to any long-dormant sexual fantasies, or b) contact those people, re-kindle your friendship, and then continue that relationship in a place that is NOT Facebook. You meet them for a drink. You email them. You text them. You ask them for a job.”  http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/facebook-is-dead-1569469413

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Pro-pizza Jimmy Kimmel takes on anti-gluten adherents:

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The gang at SFSignal offer their list of The Top 10 Greatest SF Movies Ever Made: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2014/05/watching-the-future-the-top-10-greatest-science-fiction-movies-ever-made/#more-93376.  Agree?  Disagree?  I’m surprised Alien didn’t make the list.  And that Monsters and Melancholia almost did.

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Looking to make your own liquid olives?  Here’s how:

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Trailer for the documentary How To Build A Time Machine that follows two men in their attempts to build working time machines.  Are they successful?  I guess you’ll have to watch the movie to find out:

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Game of Thrones’ Producers Aren’t Listening To You, And That’s A Problem.  Or is it?