(For anyone who’s looking for a gifty for me, a t-shirt that says that will quite fit the bill.) I’ve previously discussed my intense dislike for the Twilight series from a feminist perspective—even though I couldn’t put them down while reading them—but I hadn’t quite branched into what I think of Meyer’s changes to the [...]

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My daughter CatGirl decided to join me in my quest to read the Hugo nominees before they are voted on at WorldCon in Montreal(!) in August. To be fair, she probably won’t read all of the novels, novellas and novelletes, but she did listen to the five of stories nominated for Best Short Story. Escape [...]

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I realized that some people might want to read the story, but for various reasons may not be able to listen to the podcast version. So here’s another experiment–I worked creative commons licensed flickr photos into the first half of my “Ties that Bind” story. Miko stumbled through the underbrush after the child. It was [...]

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It’s got it all: atheism, spirituality, god, scifi, and good music!! Hulu’s got the first four eps up right now (and it doesn’t keep them forever), so go catch up. It’s too smart and too well written to stay on the air for long. It’s the story of Kings David and Saul transposed into a [...]

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Behold (via link) The 2009 Hugo Nominees! For Best Novel: Way back in the 90s, I got into the habit of reading the stories nominated for literary SF’s premier awards: the Hugo and the Nebula. The Hugo nominees are chosen by the members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, and the Nebulae by the [...]

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Years ago, Avery Brooks (who will forever be Cmdr. Sisko to me) did a truly awesome commercial for IBM, one that still prompts me to occasionally exclaim, “I was promised flying cars!” The point was that, when people look into the future, they see today’s technology modified for the future, not the invention of whole [...]

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I’ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]

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Here. A little heavy on the Star Trek and Star Wars, but still awesome. And honestly, what else is Q for but…Q?

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That would be “Bitchy Literary Criticism”. John & I were having a conversation about good books and the concept of “strong female characters”, as a reason I might want to explore the Sabriel series. My response was that I had been recommended Miyazaki’s manga/movies for the same reason, that the author writes “strong female characters”, [...]

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I just read this, so I didn’t really get tagged, but I hereby tag: John, G, wren, Brian (who I can’t link to), & Cobwebs. Feel free to link to your own (whether I tagged you or not) in the comments 1. One book that made you laugh: I, Lucifer, by Glen Duncan. DH and [...]

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