How Barack Obama Can Get My Vote
By bring a little Daft Punk into the mix. I admit, one thing that I really like about Obama is that he doesn’t give off that “I’m just a politician and old” feel all the time. I remember seeing him on an episode of Ellen Degeneres’ show where he actually danced live. True, he looked […]
Media Tie-ins: A Little More
A lot more discussion has been going on regarding media tie-ins, making me realize how big an issue this really is in the genre world. Lou Anders wrote a fascinating post here and in it he quoted someone else who likened the bias in genre fiction against media tie-ins to the bias of non-genre folks […]
J. J. Abrams: Moron in Producer’s Clothing
From io9: Abrams talked a lot about why he thinks the time is right for a show about the horrors of science gone wrong. “Every day, every week, we hear about some potentially horrifying thing… Science is out of control.” No, what’s out of control is the overrated producer/creator that gave us the Lost, Cloverfield, […]
The Terminator Movies: Why the robots lost…badly.
I’ve been watching the first and third Terminator films the last couple of days and something occurred to me as to why the robots–from the future, of course–always lose: they’re not very smart robots.Let’s face it, the robots of the future didn’t exactly choose the “calm” approach to getting things done. The first Terminator was […]
McDonald’s, Gays, and Retarded Rightwing Christians
An appropriate subtitle to this would be: Why boycotting McDonald’s won’t do a damn thing. So, according to Fox, the ever fair and balanced network (yes, as fair and balanced as Hitler, bah!) a Christian Group is boycotting McDonald’s after they made a donation to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. How many […]
Star Wars: A Letter to George Lucas
Dear Mr. Lucas,This letter is in conjunction with many posts across the web–the World Wide Web, if you will, since you seem somewhat out of touch with popular culture as of late–at places like SF Signal. These posts have been about the fate of Star Wars and what could very well save it from what […]