I suppose I am the last person on earth to discover the Invisible Pink Unicorn. This goddess is simply wonderful because she inhabits a contradiction–she cannot be seen, but she is nonetheless pink! I have often invoked the goddess (usually during Nebraska football games) but I’m happy now to have an image to invoke. Even [...]
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Imaginary Pantheism
Posted in Fiction on March 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
No Football; Lots of Good Books
Posted in Fiction on December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here it is Friday night, and there are no good football games on tomorrow (Army-Navy doesn’t count). The bowls don’t start up for a week or so, and none of the good ones happen until the first of the year anyhow. I am not dealing well with the absence of college football, but then I [...]
Vamps and Witches and Shifters, Oh My!
Posted in Fiction on August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been recording episodes of season 4 of True Blood but haven’t watched until last night, when a bout of insomnia led me to check the list of recorded stuff on my DVR. I assumed that watching The Road would not be a good choice for 2 am, so opted for TB instead. And was [...]
George Martin Single-handedly Saves Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores–For Awhile At Least
Posted in Fiction on July 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
According to the Noo Yawk Times, A Dance With Dragons sold 298,000 copies on its FIRST DAY of release! That’s the most ever in a very long time. And in an even bigger surprise, more hard cover copies were sold than were digital copies. I guess people want to hold the book in their hands, [...]
Another Worst Movie of All Time
Posted in Fiction, Movies and Video on June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday night the ScyFy channel featured a film called 2010: Moby Dick. The channel guide said it starred Patrick Stewart, but this turned out to be an error: Stewart did indeed make a film version of Moby Dick, but this wasn’t it. And if Stewart’s portrayal of Captain Ahab or the script of his [...]
Men at War
Posted in Fiction, Ideology and Belief on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
AMC typically runs war movies all day on Memorial Day, interspersed with reminders, from Tom Brokaw no less, to honor the lives and deaths of those who serve or served our country. This year, between scenes of movieland mayhem, they also interpolated contemporary footage of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, which was cool given that [...]
Applied Phlebotinum
Posted in Fiction on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to fans of Game of Thrones, I wandered into a wonderful site today: TV Tropes. Here you can find any and all turns and plays used, not just in writing for television, but in fiction, comics, movies, and games. A faux wiki with a useful index posted on the left side of the screen, [...]
Winter is Coming
Posted in Fiction on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Trep was kind enough to ask for a review of HBO’s presentation of Game of Thrones. So here it is: Wow. Just wow. HBO has retained the dark tone of George R. R. Martin’s series, along with the medieval setting and the fascinating characters. They hired all the right people to portray the major characters, [...]
A Song of Ice and Fire
Posted in Fiction on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Browsing Amazon yesterday to see whether I can afford duplicate copies of my Morrowind and Oblivion discs, I ran across a publication date for George R. R. Martin’s Dances with Dragons. This will be the fifth novel in his long-awaited Song of Ice and Fire series. (And I do mean “long”; the last installment, A [...]
Why Conservative Talk Dominates the Airwaves
Posted in Fiction, Politics on February 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
http://www.gabbysplayhouse.com/?p=1457 Trish Nelson, who writes for BlogforIowa, is also troubled about the Iowa focus group shown on Faux News Sunday evening. But she puts a sinister spin on it, noting that conservative talk radio is ubiquitous for a reason. She recounts the efforts of a local community to get progressive programming on the air, which [...]
