Game of Thrones vs. People Who Only Threw a Fit After-the-fact
George Bush is in the HBO production of Game of Thrones (season one). Not really. A replica of his head was dressed up in a manky wig and put on a spike to represent one of the heads King Joffrey lobbed off towards the end of the first season. Said replica was on the screen for […]
Film Crit Hulk on the New Yorker? Dumbest Thing of the Week…
(Originally on Google+; cross-posting to amuse myself.) Excuse me while I call this the dumbest thing to hit Geek culture all year that happens to not be some racist or sexist rant of doom. Seriously? Your idea of how the Hulk would speak is to give him remarkably sophisticated diction…but in ALL CAPS? Because ALL CAPS […]
I Would Ride a Unicorn (Maybe Even in a Dress)(Or, Hey, Gender Paradigms in SF/F!)
Fantasy Book Cafe has been releasing some fascinating articles in celebration of its “Women in SF/F” month (thing, event?). One such article by the always-compelling N. K. Jemisin, entitled “Don’t Fear the Unicorn,” concerns Jemisin’s personal struggle with the culturally-imposed gender paradigms in genre fiction. Specifically, girly unicorns of girly-ness on the cover of Steven […]
Basic Conference Etiquette: Don’t Be THAT Guy
Anyone who attends conferences (academic or otherwise) knows there are three kinds of annoying people who attend: People who run way overtime. People who do not come prepared to give a talk. People who don’t actually ask a question during the Q&A. There are probably more, but I’d like to talk about just these three […]
Things a $5 Bill Can Do (or, A Random Event in My Life That Violates Nature)
Nothing about the story I am about to relate has anything to do with genre fiction, unless you consider bizarre events related. But it’s a story I have to share anyway. The history: Last week, I returned from my trip to visit my girlfriend in England to find that the bus from the airport had […]
Things I Write on Google+ When I’m Bored
Sometimes I get incredibly bored when I’m at home. Usually this occurs when I’m between things I’m supposed to be doing. And when I’m like that, I tend to write nonsensical weirdness. For example, I wrote this on Google+ yesterday: Some day, there will be a giant robot in my sky. And his name shall […]