One potential good thing that might be coming out of the Marvel-Disney business: Ant-Man, by Edgar Wright and Pixar. Seems like pretty good match to me. I’ve always kind of loved Ant-Man. Scientist Hank Pym, using improbable science, shrinks to a tiny size, and employs a special telepathic helmet to communicate with and direct armies […]
Disney is going to buy Marvel Entertainment for around 4 billion dollars. That’s, uh, Wow. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this, really. On one hand, having the Marvel comics stable (several thousand characters) attached to one particular media conglomerate is probably good for business; no longer does Marvel Films (which was a […]
NPR listening can be really expensive. We’re just minding our own business, driving home from our weekend away, and catch today’s episode of Fresh Air, in which Terry Gross spends the hour talking to author and journalist T.R. Reid about his book The Healing of America. The book discusses Reid’s research and investigations into the […]
I finished a book this week; Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin. It’s a clearly written scientific text by an anatomist/paleontologist who was part of a team who in 2004 discovered the tiktaalik, a transitional animal from 375 million years ago sharing common characteristics […]
The fact that three zombie-related tunes came up this week is, indeed, completely random. I suppose we must always remain vigilant for the apocalypse of the undead, hopefully we’ll be better prepared than they were at the fictional Yonkers. “Least Complicated” – Indigo Girls “All You Zombies” – The Hooters “Big Jack” – AC/DC “Shanty […]
As alluded to in an earlier post, we made a family trip over to the VA comicon this weekend. It was Colleen’s first trip, and I guess she enjoyed herself. She at least satisfied her curiousity; you’d have to ask her for her impressions. It’s always fun pointing the kids at the fifty-cent boxes with […]
While going through some boxes a few months back, I stumbled upon a couple of twenty-odd year-old back issues of Analog magazine that I’d kept from my Dad’s stuff. When I was a dorky teenager, I loved digging through these paperbound wonders on Dad’s shelves, reading the stories, scouring the old adverts for mostly defunct […]
While doing the last of my Christmas shopping the other week (specifically, while picking up a copy of “How to Be A Domestic Goddess” by Nigella Lawson for Colleen), I ended up with a good Borders coupon. So, today we ventured out to to the one Borders books in the Richmond area (via a roundabout […]
