According to Clara Moskowitz at Live Science, there is an award series called the Ig Nobels. An Ig Nobel award should not be confused with the no-longer meaningful Nobel prizes, who they hand out to pretty much anybody these days. (I used to hope that maybe some day I could be Time’s person of the […]
I have to admit that I prefer my science fiction a little grittier and a lot better acted and directed than network television can generally offer. So I don’t usually get my fix from ABC or SyFy. As a Wesleyan alum, I wanted to like Serenity, but I thought the captain character was just way […]
Is it wrong to kiss and tell? Does it make a difference if you tell just one person or millions of people of just three people but one of them tells millions? This week, the internet is all aflutter over the Karen Owen Powerpoint presentation. If you are not up on your Duke sex scandal […]
My Backstage Passes anthology has been receiving some more nice press this week, so I thought I’d share. Backstage Passes: An Anthology of Rock and Roll Erotica from the Pages of Blue Blood is currently the featured book review on BlogCritic.com. FC Etier, writing for Blog Critic, explains that his Aunt Maude used to describe […]
If you like cyberpunk sf, you are probably familiar with author and general cool guy Rudy Rucker. What you might not know, or at least I didn’t until now, is that Rudy Rucker edits an online science fiction zine called Flurb. It is free to read and includes many top speculative fiction/science fiction talents. I […]
I’ve been watching a lot of TCM lately. In particular, the gangster movies from the 1930’s really resonate with me. In a way, the world is such a different place now, and, in a way, so many of the issues are so very current. Those movies took on themes of people with good work ethics […]
If you’ve been paying attention to the pretty Flash designs floating around the site here, you probably know the Devil movie opens tonight. It is being marketed as being with M. Night Shyamalan’s touch. WGA credits him for the story, but lists a Brian Nelson as the screenwriter. Apparently, M. Night Shyamalan is producing a […]
Are ray gun vibrators steampunk? This is the sort of question I lie awake at night contemplating. Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction/fantasy/speculative fiction, which builds on the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. Now H. G. Wells and Jules Verne were both geniuses and can be forgiven for imagining future technology […]
Scientists have drilled deeply into the psyche of the average heterosexual woman and managed to come away not only with sanity intact, but also with the sacred truth coveted by smarmy male club-skanks the world over: “which moves on the dance floor are likely to facilitate a healthy coat of stanky on my hang-down?” Employing […]
If you tweet, do you have a sense of how much you cuss? Well, I think my new favorite site is Curse Bird because it will analyze your Twitter account for you. For example, Curse Bird says “AmeliaG swears like a Gangsta Rapper”. CurseBird is designed by one Richard Henry, who specializes in creating apps […]