io9 posted a tidbit today that Seven Samurai is receiving a sci-fi facelift from a certain Shane Salerno (no, I’m not familiar with him either, although io9 claims he penned the Shaft remake - which I quite liked actually).

And no, this isn’t the other remake they keep talking about.

I could probably work up a lot of bile over this if I wanted, but it’s probably not worth the effort. Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai has been re-made so many times at this point it seems pointless to get worked up over yet another re-hash, and conversely it’s just as hard to get excited.

The script’s current title isn’t much to write home about, either. Doomsday Protocol? Wasn’t Vin Diesel just in that? I don’t know - and frankly I don’t care. The attention-deficit young adult crowd will probably eat it up like high-powered ritalin, but I’m past the point of caring.

Although it does make me want to go home and watch the original.

I hate the SciFi Channel - I really do. As a lifelong sci-fi geek, I should be totally into something called the ‘SciFi Channel’. But instead of discussions about genre greats like Asimov or Clarke, or documentaries about great science fiction film, we get endless retreads of B-list shit like Mansquito or Alien Apocalypse. Every time I tune into SciFi in the hopes that something remotely interesting might be on, I turn away feeling as used and abused as a cheap Bangkok boy-whore.

Okay, now that I’ve finished venting my spleen at the aborted fetus milkshake that is the SciFi Channel, I can happily remind you that there might actually be a reason to give them your attention as the AniMonday programming block (starting at 1am) has been renewed by SciFi and Manga. Lots of good stuff, believe it or not. I’ll be curious to see if Gurren Lagann lives up to the hype.

Among the movies set to air during the Ani-Monday block are “Strait Jacket,” “Blood: The Last Vampire,” “Ghost in the Shell,” “Jack,” “Dead Leaves,” “Go Shogun” and “Negadon: The Monsters From Mars.”

The block will also feature the TV premieres of the classic anime series “Now and Then, Here and There” and “Descendants of Darkness,” as well as the U.S. debuts of “Gurren Lagann” and “Gundam 00.”

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Well friends, this may very well be the last edition of Yaoi Menace. I think I found the book that will put me off the genre forever.

Yaoi: Anthology of Boys’ Love Volume 1 from Yaoi Press is a collection of three short stories brought to life by international teams of writers and artists. Also, it sucks. Hard. No, that’s not a good thing.

The first story, The Price of Freedom, is written by Misa Izanaki and drawn by Yishan Studios. It begins when a family of what appear to be less-than-Yeti but more-then-human creatures rescues a young woman and her baby, who are lost in the forest. The child, Aren, is a half-incubus (wings, tail, horns etc.) and grows up with the Yeti family’s son, Kumari. Then one day Aren’s mother announces that they are going back to her family.

We meet Aren again years later, when he is the star attraction of a circus sideshow, where he plays demon to an ‘angel’ (a man who inexplicably has feathered wings, as opposed to Aren’s bat wings). The ‘angel’ happens to be the lover of the sideshow’s owner, and after work they get their kicks raping and humiliating Aren.

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