Author Archives: geoffreylong

Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.

Yes, it’s going to suck. Yes, I’m probably going to see it.

Jeez. It’s distressing me no end that they cast Keanu Reeves as an Americanized John Constantine, and that this movie could have been so cool, but what the hey, I’m a sucker for this stuff. The new Constantine trailer is right this way.

Going to theOffice.

I would so like one of these to show up in Chicago. Pricey, but awesome.

The man’s talking sense.

Yet another good New York Times commentary, from John Rockwell:

I’m awake, I’m awake… No, I’m not.

Surefire indicator that I am still under the proverbial weather: I can’t seem to stay awake for more than a few hours at a time. This is from a man who chronically only grabs about six hours of sleep a night and never naps. Now it’s bang bang hammer hammer clunk zzzz, snort snuffle bang […]

Evolution.

There’s a lot in this post from Scott Andrew that I’ve come to agree with. Especially the anecdote from Ani DiFranco. Once again I find myself thinking, Right on, Ani. It’s definitely time to move.

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

This morning’s New York Times is running a story on how Graydon Carter, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, got $100,000 for suggesting a movie. There are some people howling about how Graydon is being ‘bought’, and how the magazine is turning favorable towards those who line his pockets, but speaking as an editor myself I can […]

What was that?

Did anybody else see the series finale of Frasier and think, “Hey, wasn’t there supposed to be one more act?” The Friends finale was kind of like that for me too. Not a lot of closure in these episodes.

Silver linings.

OK, so I’ve been in various degrees of pain for almost a week, ranging from mild aches to searing spikes so sharp they’d double me over with accompanying man-screams. This has necessitated the use of some staggeringly powerful painkillers, which resulted in one night where I literally didn’t know where I was, everything was so […]

New Zelda trailer!

Sweet! There’s apparently a new Legend of Zelda game on its way which looks way more grown-up than The Wind Waker. Don’t get me wrong, Wind Waker was fun, but this just looks incredible. Check it out!

Get back here, Carl!

CNN.com is running a story on the return of ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. Check out this passage: Reiner, who Van Dyke credits as a “genius,” says that the medium has changed too much for him to consider returning to television writing. “That’s a whole different ballgame today and different rules, I don’t know. … […]