Based on How Many Times I Said “Oh Fuck Off” While Watching There are so many episodes of The X-Files. There are so many episodes of The X-Files and so many of them are bad. Yet I love this show. I love this show and it keeps me awake at
John Galsworthy Should Be Turning in His Grave The Brits dropped a new TV adaptation of The Forsyte Saga so of course I rushed to PBS to watch it. My mother and I discovered the early 2000s adaptation but a year or two ago, and since then every time we
Rectify 2x04 "Donald The Normal" We open, unexpectedly, to Daniel on a bus. We’ve seen Daniel in so many prison-coded places--in particular, prison--but now he’s going somewhere. That somewhere is soon revealed to be Atlanta. Daniel being Daniel, dumbphone owner before it was cool(?), he arrives
Q-in-Law by Peter David Man contains multitudes. Once, I reviewed War and Peace for this blog. Now I will review Q-in-Law, a Star Trek: The Next Generation tie-in novel wherein the omnipotent space asshole Q and Deanna Troi’s overbearing mother Lwaxana both attend an alien wedding hosted on the
Farscape 2x05 & 2x06 The Way We Weren’t What do you call a grey version of sepia? Greepia? Okay, greepia it is. We open to a greepia view of Peacekeeper marines, led by a hot guy scientist, marching down the halls of Moya to Pilot’s lair. But it’
RIP Mr. Sheckley, You Would Have Loved GTA Online I found a copy of The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley on my shelf. I don’t remember how it got there. Though I’d like to say my friend sent it to me, I cannot pretend to certainty in this
Back at the beginning of the year I informed you, my loyal readers, about Frogtown Radio of St. Paul, Minnesota. But perhaps you don’t have the appropriate passion for contemporary homegrown Minnesotan jams. That’s on you, but luckily I have other material prepared. May I offer you Radio
Today we see one of the worst episodes and one of my favorites. Truly, Farscape taketh and she giveth away. She’s vers like that. Taking the Stone We open to Chiana having a mental breakdown which causes her to do surgery on herself and pull a giant red cough
Every year I read The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (BASFF) collection to see what’s going with (relatively) mainstream SFF. What I enjoy most about BASFF is the cycling guest editor. Every year the survey comes in at a fresh angle, the beam of our attention guided by
Approaching Samuel Delany’s Conan/Semiotics Slash Fiction Have you ever wished Conan the Barbarian were the kind of guy to read critical theory? No? Too bad, because today we’re discussing the first volume of Samuel Delany’s Nevèrÿon stories. Nevèrÿon is a sword-and-sorcery-and-semiotics series heroically compiled by Wesleyan
Farscape Episodes 2x01 & 2x02 Oh my god, who is that at the door? It’s my special friend Farscape, back from the war! Please make her feel at home. She’s going to be here a while. Mind the Baby In the break since last season, three or four
Today was supposed to be the premiere of Season Two of my XOXO, Puppet Girl Farscape reviews, but unfortunately my evil hand took the wheel instead. Look for Puppet Girl to return this Thursday. Fuck you to fuck me, Markiplier On Sunday my friend persuaded me to see Markiplier’s