We open this episode of Game of Thrones with a pair of comedy soldiers gossiping in the rain, because this is Shakespeare after all. Yep, fart joke and a piss, this is Henry V, except it’s an American Direwolf in London. This smooth fucker who looks a bit too much like Stannis doesn’t get named, […]
The new show Girls, from HBO, is very probably the worst thing that generally excellent network has ever put on the air. I really enjoy the long form cable dramas in general. I prefer this structure of storytelling to feature films. (I almost never watch sitcoms. Unless they are animated i.e. The Simpsons.) I confess […]
In honor of 4/20, I wanted to write something about how the low price of kush in California, even when you factor in doctor visits, demonstrates what happens when the market right-prices healthcare. I’m indifferent to marijuana, on a personal level, but I believe strongly in what it politically represents. But I glanced at Facebook, […]
Our ep opens with Jon the Bastard having been kicked like a bag of shit from the woods all the way to the barn. This is pretty much the life of a Stark these days. It turns out the mystery of Craster’s boys isn’t much of a mystery, so it’s a wonder why he’s so […]
Sexy Fandom reports that io9 editor Annalee Newitz and Esther Inglis-Arkell are now hosting io9‘s new web TV show. Annalee Newitz is perhaps best known now for editing SF blog io9, but I first came across her writing in features she did on the junction of sex and technology (one of my favorite junctions!) She […]
Gothic.net has posted a few more interesting Panel of Experts features. The most recent questions are Do you enjoy novels or anthologies more? and What are your favorite monsters and what specifically appeals to you about them? I felt inadequately special saying vampires, but I was surely not alone with this answer. It is kind […]
Given that it is pretty much the best thing on television right now, I’m not exactly surprised that Game of Thrones has been renewed for a Season 3 on HBO. With Boardwalk Empire’s wretched season finale and few feature films coming to premium cable in a timely fashion, I wonder how much of an uptick […]
Our episode of Game of Thrones begins with Arya, looking emo and pissing in a creek. Yep, that kind of sets the tone. The city watch has sent a pair of utter humps up the king’s road after Gendry, and predictably they get owned and sent packing. This earns Gendry a couple of stares and […]
If you’re on an alternative website and class yourself as alternative in any way, I dare say you’re familiar with Tim Burton, if only through his classic magnum opus, The Nightmare Before Christmas. If I asked, you’d probably admit to having heard of it, if I prodded you’d likely let fly your opinions on the […]