Book Review
Reviewing How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore It often seems most history books intended for the general audience are written with moms in mind, unless they’re about World War II or Abraham Lincoln. Nothing else could tempt a sixty-something dad out of his beer garage. Mom
Book Review
A 1950s Collection Which Rips We’ll start with the cover: A beautiful blonde woman staring wistfully past a green scaly alien who has a big green conehead. Behind them looms a rocket ship and a purple glowing planetoid. I believe this image to be derived from one of the
Book Review
Post-America, Written Too Soon I accidentally read two books about the collapse or rising irrelevance of America while I was on vacation last month. This is why I can’t do leisure time: I box myself into the grindset by accident. The funnier coincidence about these two books is that
Review
Based on How Many Times I Said “Oh Fuck Off” While Watching We return to our article in progress. We already talked about the movie-within-a-movie episode, the baseball alien episode, the Bermuda Triangle episode, the giving-the-aliens-the-flag episode, even the Brady Bunch episode. How much stupider can this show get? #5.
Review
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
Literature
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
Review
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
Book Review
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
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