Posted on December 19, 2019
Good News/Bad News
I don’t post reviews on this site so much as my thoughts about genre experiences. And while I feel perfectly justified in posting negative thoughts about movies and television shows, I rarely post anything negative about books because… Read More
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