I started “reading” (well, listening to Wil Wheaton performing the text of) Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One this week. I’m only a handful of discs in, but I’m really enjoying it. It’s pretty much pure, condensed nostalgia – aimed pretty much dead center at the culture of my childhood (the pop culture of the 1980s […]

Other than the pope business, the big news in my corner of the internet yesterday was Rob “not the Matchbox 20 guy” Thomas’s Kickstarter to fund a Veronica Mars movie project. That this is even kind of a possibility is great news, because I loved me some Veronica Mars. In spite of it’s occasional flaws*, […]

Wish I had more to say…life’s been interesting, in a mentally and physically taxing sort of way, but not a lot going on worth blogging about. I’ll spare you my misery surrounding economic uncertainty, national politics, timing not lining up the way I want it to, and occasional buyer’s remorse. Rather than doing that, I’m […]

Reporting here from the beginning of a four day weekend – took Friday off, which is mostly just taunting myself about the fact that I no longer have every Friday off. Doesn’t matter, I got to sleep in this morning. No huge plans for the weekend – gotta help load in some set pieces for […]

If Firefly’s ever going to come back (for Christmas or otherwise), perhaps this might be the best way to do it, given the fact the show’s been off the air for ten years now, and the tight pants might be too tight these days. An animated series would pretty much be appointment television for many […]

This is funny to me, because several women in my life are utterly fascinated by this particular fellow (the less furry one), if not full-on card-carrying members of the Cumberbatch Brigade (which is a much more polite way to describe them than is the common term): “We solve crimes, I blog about it and he […]

Sunday morning, I heard this piece on NPR and got terribly excited about revisiting my undergrad history degree and writing up a clever treatise about my affection for the

They’d generally be right about the humbug thing, but not in this case, as this post has nothing to do with the season. It’s just my way of remembering how great The X-Files often was: Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all […]

One of these days, I’ll get around to posting actual content again, I promise.

Still hectic and all around here, and Frankenstorm’s Monsoon hasn’t been helping matters. However, I can report with some relief that although there’s been some inconvenience, my little corner of the Mid-Atlantic coast seems to have dodged the worst of Sandy’s hopeless devotion. The power even stayed on all last night, which, given past experience, […]