Yesterday the Doctor Who crew announced that they’d chosen the new Doctor Who companion that will take over from Karen Gillian and Arthur Darvill: Jenna-Louise Coleman. Moffat has heaped much praise upon Miss Coleman and said that her energy matches and even exceeds that of Matt Smith, so we should all rejoice. Yet my first [...]
I know you all think I’ve dropped off the face of the Earth. Maybe what I need to do is promise a post a day with interesting links. That would at least be something. Today at Tor.com you can see the latest installment of Tech News For Nerds, a weekly thing I’m doing over that [...]
It’s hard, sometimes, being a Torchwood fan. It’s hard loving a show that has such obvious flaws. That suffers so many episodes with a good or halfway decent premise to fall apart in the last 5 – 15 minutes. That suffers some more than occasional bouts of bad acting. That suffers Burn Gorman to be [...]
All that and more over on the ABW today. And tomorrow there will be a piece on Fantasy about rape and taboos in spec fic which you may also find interesting.
For several years now I have said that I don’t watch television. This is sort of true and sort of not. For a long time I did not have cable television in the apartment and over-the-air reception in NYC isn’t even worth the tin foil. I did watch some television shows. I just downloaded or [...]
At Comicon this weekend there was a special “last minute” appearance by Daniel Dae Kim who plays Jin on Lost. I am assuming it was kept under wraps to avoid prematurely leaking that Jin was returning to the show even though he got all blowed up. Before his autograph session the press folks got a [...]
You might want to hie over to Amazon.com, because they are selling the complete series for $100. Usually it’s $329. Have at!
You know, Family Guy has been on the decline for a while now, as I have mentioned before. But this clip, from the 4th episode of the current season, is where the show goes from being not that damn funny to disgustingly clueless and wrong. Ugh. Warning: don’t watch this clip if you’re likely to [...]
WikiSurfing — don’t know if that’s an actual term, but that’s what I call it when I look up one thing on Wikipedia that leads me to another, another, and another until it’s 4 hours later. I was wikisurfing a character from Star Trek when I ended up at the page for a classic Trek [...]
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My column about Heroes. It basically boils down to: OH TIM KRING NO
This must be short as I am late for something. Old cartoons, you love ‘em. I know you do. Mysterious Cities of Gold? Freakazoid? Danger Mouse? Bananaman? Nickelodeon in the 80s, Disney Afternoon in the 90s, Cartoon Express in the… whatevers. You watched it all, now talk about it today at Fantasy and win some [...]
Have at, open thread. Discuss the season finale and stuff. Spoilers in comments, etc etc. I’ll just be in the corner crying.
Something you seem unable to grasp: You Are Not A Soap Opera Seriously. We don’t care if one CSI is cheating on another and we don’t appreciate the return of the Black Man As Addict storyline and, honestly, we really don’t need to know that much about the lives of the CSIs. That’s not why [...]
I was highly amused by this list of The 10 Most Insane, Child-Warping Moments of ’80s Cartoons, which I found through the Jem mailing list I’m on (shut up). It’s weird because some of the stuff at the “bottom” is far more traumatizing than the stuff at the top. I think they have the numbering [...]
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I'm a writer, most often committing acts of genre (fantasy, science fiction, and other stretches of the imagination). You can find my short stories in many and various magazines and anthologies and podcasts. In addition to being a writer I also engage in activism and fandom -- often both at once.
