Farscape
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’
Book Review
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
Review
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
Farscape
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
Book Review
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
Book Review
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
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
Cinema
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
Cinema
Mwaaah the cinema! It gets knocked down, but it gets up again. They’re never going to keep it down, though not for lack of trying. Did I see a lot of good movies this year? Yes. Were many of them new release American movies? No. Biggest Ws 2025 had
Science Fiction
Some people understand things best when it’s presented to them as cool fact. Other people prefer pondering the world through the wiggly lens of fiction. Still others are bored right now and want to read several articles consecutively. For all three of you I have two stories, one location,
Video Games
It has been another hideous year for the game industry, and tech in general. And the world. It’s difficult to muster much enthusiasm for a shambling zombie industry, its priority product the sludge dribbling from its rotting, slackened lips. Did I Play Any Games This Year? I spent too
Television
Back in the day, I believed in television as a breakthrough medium. During my youth, it shed its goo-goo ga-ga machine reputation to become the unifying fascination of the very online cultural critics of my formative years. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about television. One could say it was something