Posted on August 12, 2019
Bad Tactics
I served in the military, but I am not a military man. I’ve never read any books on military tactics and would say I only have the glancing acquaintance with the famous strategies of, say, Agincourt, Little Big… Read More
Posted on July 14, 2019
Arriving Late Ep. 20: A Human Reaction
Crichton jumps into the first wormhole he comes across and ends up home, giant puppets not made out of wood and performances that are, join us for a discussion of the latest Farscape episode.
Posted on June 28, 2019
Arriving Late Ep. 18: Farscape “The Flax”
Note: I realize I haven’t written a blog post in a while. I will cop to being lazy and distracted, but also I’m binge watching Neon Genesis Evangelion for a future post and it’s not going well. This… Read More
Posted on June 4, 2019
The Twilight Zone
When I heard they were rebooting The Twilight Zone my first concern was that they would do what had done before and just remake some of the old episodes in color (although I will stan John Lithgow’s performance… Read More
Posted on May 9, 2019
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
I’ve always thought of Philip Jose Farmer as a fantasy writer and, not being very much into fantasy, I’ve actively avoided him. But lately, I’ve been feeling the need to circle back to the books I skipped during… Read More
Posted on April 25, 2019
Under The Skin
Art films bore me. Not artistic films like Barry Lyndon or 2001: A Space Odyssey or A Clockwork Orange (wait, those are all… whatever), but self important film school senior projects with long, long, overlong takes and a… Read More
Posted on April 21, 2019
Brainstorm: The First Hacker Movie
I crave authenticity in entertainment. I want my stories to be like seeing behind the curtains into some strange world. For that reason, I was truly struck by the management/labor dynamic in Alien. You never see plumbers on… Read More
Posted on April 6, 2019
Tunnel In The Sky
I have a tendency to jump to Starship Troopers as the book that most impacted me when I was a kid, but that’s not really the case. The first Heinlein novel I read that shook up my world… Read More
Posted on January 12, 2019
Annihilation: The Movie
TL;DR: A beautiful movie that makes its own kind of sense while abandoning most of the key elements of Jeff VanderMeer’s moody classic. See it, but don’t do your book report on it. Spoilers for Annihilation (2018) follow.