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.
Posted on October 23, 2018
Podcast Dry Run #2: TOS – A Piece of the Action
The Podcast is called “Arriving Late.” It’s me and my friends discussing SciFi TV shows from the 1990s that I missed and everyone, literally everyone, else has seen. For practice runs, we’re using episodes of The Original Series…. Read More
Posted on April 16, 2018
Ready Player One
I listened to the audio book of Ready Player One so much that even while watching the movie I kept hearing Wil Wheaton’s voice whenever Wade Watts spoke. The 80s was my favorite decade while it was happening… Read More
Posted on August 26, 2017
Notes From The Internet Apocalypse
I, like most people, rely on fallback fantasies to be able to sleep at night. If I lost my house, for instance, I could just fall back to apartment life. If I lost my car, I could just… Read More
