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Who Wants to be a Superhero (Season 2)? Week 3 Reaction

If you are following this show, care about it, and haven’t seen tonight’s episode, beware of spoilers.
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Harry Potter, Anarchist

As anyone who has grabbed a stick and shouted "Lumos!" knows, the Harry Potter books are infallible guides to casting magical spells and to Dark Magic, and are thus rightly feared by the Religious Right.  But in addition to the magic which kids learn from reading the books (and the more dangerous notions that kids [...]

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My reactions to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows within. No spoilers, but you never know, so I’m putting this beneath the fold.

The Book

We are now in possession of The Book.
See y’all in a few days.

Gay Heroes in Genre Fiction

Last night I actually went out of my way to watch Mortuary, a Tobe Hooper blunder from 2005 starring Denise Crosby as a single mother who takes a job as a mortician and moves with her two children to an old house attached to the mortuary.  While it’s better than some of the cheap horror [...]

Things seem to be slowing down here.

Today at work I’m spending a lot of time updating scripts and testing said scripts.  The scripts take several minutes to run in between fixes, so my day has been a cycle of fixing a script, waiting three or four minutes for the script to complete, making another change, then testing the script again.  And [...]

DSL Update

Thanks to everyone who replied with regards to my DSL woes.  I apparently had a brain tumor for breakfast yesterday morning because when I was checking with various providers, I kept giving them the phone number of our new house.  Said phone number is not yet active.  So, of course, no server reported DSL as [...]

Very cool time displacement video technique

Via BoingBoing, this very cool video demonstration of a time displacement technique called "Slit Scan":

For those who give any kind of a damn, I tried describing this very effect in how the Terassic — those big spiky monster critters from the last D&D game, Worlds’ End, that I ran — moved.  Being interdimensional and evil [...]

More Movie Goodness

Last week I also watched Ghost Rider.  Not a whole lot to recommend that film, except the visuals and the sound track.  Who can’t love a shot like this:

One Ghost Rider on a motorcycle, and another — played by Sam Elliot! — on a horse.  I wish I could find a desktop wallpaper version of [...]

Doctor Who - Utopia

God save me, I LOVE this show!  With Heroes and Battlestar Galactica both on mid-season hiatus, Doctor Who is the best science fiction on television.  And even when those two shows are on the air, Doctor Who still gives them a run for their money.
Some spoilers beneath the fold.

“Fantastic Four”: A Quick Review

Last week, I finally got around to watching Fantastic Four (not Rise of the Silver Surfer, mind you, but the original film from 2005).  I guess it wasn’t the worst film I’ve ever seen.  It wasn’t even the worst superhero film I’ve ever seen (for my money, you just can’t get worse than Superman IV, [...]

“The Fantastic in Art and Fiction” Collection at Cornell

There’s a fascinating collection called "The Fantastic in Art and Fiction" over at the Cornell University Library’s website, featuring nearly three hundred woodcuts, engravings, and paintings on fantastic themes such as "Demons", "Fantastic Space", "The Grotesque", and more.  This image is a woodblock of "the demon who gives knowledge of languages", from the book Dictionnaire [...]

Yee-HAW, that was fun!

People are still blogging like it’s the end of the world, and that’s perfectly appropriate, though I personally got zombified a couple of hours ago and my narrative self is presumably wandering the fields of Dixon, looking for fresh flesh to munch on.  This kind of participatory narrative is fun to be a part of, [...]

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Coffee.  Lots and lots and lots of coffee.  The caffeine and the albuterol (lots and lots of that, too) seem to be shoving the neurons back to life for a bit.  But anyway it’s time to stop kidding myslf.
Jennifer’s on her way home now. I hope to god she makees it.  Bt I wont be [...]

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an intresting report from Kennedy Space centr.  No news on nukes.