In case you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, “Frak” is a tv-happy euphemism for F**K. There, now you’re more educated that you were. Never let it be said that reading the NY Times is without merit. How else would I have learned that there is a documentary entitled f**k out there. Ron Jeremy is interviewed. I …
Category Archives: Fiction
Tenure: Denied!
It pains me to publish that Dr. Jones’ application for tenure has been denied.
My oh My. Tolkien is Spinning at 400 RPM…
Without a doubt, the Lord of the Rings will not stop being reinterpreted until some post-modern deconstructionist proves that it never existed in the first place. Next it will be in Mime.
"This Film is Not Yet Rated"
The NY Times (once again, I’m the NYT’s bitch) had an article this morning about a new movie coming out titled This Film Is Not Yet Rated. It is a documentary about the American film rating system (G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17) and how it is not at all as transparent or rule-bound as some …
Dragon*Con Review: Miscellaneous
Part V of an n part series. See here, here, here, and here for others. Lots of stuff, I’m telling you TONS of stuff, goes on at Dragon*Con. You can party almost 24 hours a day on the planned activities alone! If you happen to be bringing friends (or meet new ones) you can fill …
Dragon*Con Review: Jim Butcher
I felt that having a humongous post about everything that went on at Dragon*Con would be a bit absurd. Here is installment III of the post. Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files. He attended Dragon*Con this year and was seen by me in the Gothic Shadows programming track. He was on a …
Dragon*Con 2006
Wahhhhhh!!!!!! As you may notice from the categories tags, Dragon*Con was a multi-threaded, awesomely spectacular, ravingly cool, devastatingly delicious weekend. There’s so much to talk about, I’m not sure where to start. This will probably end up being a multiple posting. I’ll start by saying, I bought a new camera the week before Dragon*Con, and …
Snakes on a Plane
As several of my friends have already noted, a bunch of people in geographically disparate locations saw Snakes on a Plane this opening weekend. My general impression/review is: Exactly what I expected. Campy, stupid, yet still righteously awesome. I found it to be a little bit too gratutitously violent, though. Especially when the violence/gore didn’t …
Lying down, Reading books…
With respect to the fact that I can injure myself by sitting on the couch, I’ve spent a good deal of the last two days lying on the selfsame evil couch reading books and watching TV. World Cup soccer and Welcome to Mooseport are both excellent time sinks. The majority of the time has been …
Superman Returns
I was going to review this movie, but Phil Plait (who will be at Dragon*Con this year! I’ll see you there, Phil!) did a great job and hit all of the high spots. Except a few… SPOILERS FOLLOW Such as: