Weekend!
Holy cow, is tomorrow Friday already? Indeed it is. So, Wednesday morning, I am having One Of Those Dreams. I have just found out that I failed a very important class at the University of Florida and if I want… Continue Reading
Month: June 2013
Somniloquy!
We’re continuing Brief Lives, with Mike Schilling and Glyph recapping Chapters 7 and 8, respectively. Glyph’s introduction to Sandman, in three parts, here, here, and here. Preludes and Nocturnes recaps here: Glyph and Patrick tackled the first four issues, Jaybird… Continue Reading
An Immodest Proposal
Yankee fans are up-in-arms (yet again!) as Alex Rodriguez potentially finds himself in hot water due to the use of performance enhancing drugs (yet again!). Many have taken to the airwaves and comment threads to voice a singular sentiment: Get… Continue Reading
Furs!
The 80’s get a lot of guff: for the fashions; for the hair; for not being the 60’s, or the late 70’s, or the 90’s, or whatever. But lemme tell ya sonny, the 80’s were a pretty great time for… Continue Reading
Babylonia!
Our long-delayed fourth installment of the Babylon 5 Viewing Club is finally here (pause for crickets)! The introductory post was here, The Soul Hunter was covered here, and Born to the Purple was covered right here. This week: Infection! You… Continue Reading
Adventure!
Well, I’m sure that you’ve heard that Disney shut down the video game arm of Lucasarts recently. For those of you who haven’t been living/breathing this stuff for the last 20 years, Lucasarts (somehow) managed to put out videogames that… Continue Reading
Sunday!
So I actually sat down and watched The Last Stand and came away feeling like it was a pleasantly dumb movie. It has everything you could possibly want in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie: explosions, guns, dumb one-liners, Harry Dean Stanton,… Continue Reading
Beautyer!
As I warned JHG, once you start recommending Bach pieces, it’s hard to stop. Here are two more I had to share: First, this astonishing thing, which might be the reason the universe was created: Second, this, which is almost… Continue Reading
Saturday!
I put in a pre-order for “Remember Me” yesterday. It’s got a great little conceit: you can modify the memories of the people you encounter and change the universe thereby. So let’s say that there’s a door that is locked.… Continue Reading
Somnology!
The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives continues. What could possibly go wrong? Come Wednesday night, Schilling and Glyph will continue their recappery of the next two chapters. Oh, and if you thought it was good so far? You ain’t seen *NOTHIN*… Continue Reading