Archives for “scifi”
“If Obama was serious about change he would stop saying ‘God bless America’ and instead end every speech with ‘The Spice must flow.’” – Matthew Baldwin
I started reading Anathem with some hesitation, because I really didn’t get into The Baroque Cycle. It’s not that they were bad books, I just wasn’t into the time period they were set in. Thankfully, this is a return to his earlier style of spec-fic, and I found the world he invented absolutely compelling. The [...]
“The absolute worst thing in Matrix III was when Keanu gets to the virtual office of the Big Computer Mind, and he meets, like, a tweedy professor with a white beard. Ugh! At the very least it should have been a fat hacker in a T-shirt, preferably high on pineal extract.” – Rudy Rucker
Lucas recently spoke out against companies altering old films and colorizing black and white features; he claimed that, as a proponent of history, viewers should be able to appreciate a film as it was originally released. “I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched [...]
I was just looking through my draft posts and noticed that I never actually posted my One Paragraph Review for Mass Effect. And that’s sad, because I absolutely loved the game. In fact, the reason I didn’t post the review is because I decided I didn’t want to review it until I beat the game, [...]
Jon Favreau directing Iron Man and starring Robert Downey Jr. was all I needed to hear to get excited about this movie. When the trailer came out, it just raised my hopes even higher. His portrayal of Tony Stark as a self-centered alcoholic billionaire looked pitch-perfect — And I’m happy to say that the movie [...]
I was going to write a review, but instead I’m going to quote from an email Miles sent me, because he puts it better than I ever could: “It cracks me up how schizophrenic it is between apocalyptic horror and tongue-in-cheek wish fulfillment. On the one hand: Alien slavers colonize the earth! They’re sterilizing humanity, [...]
In the October 2004 issue of Wired, there was an article about these guys who work for the SciFi channel whose job is to screen monster movies to decide which ones get aired. Long story short, they decided they could do a better job than the submissions they got, and that’s how we got all [...]
A lot of people are going to be unhappy with this finale. Personally, I liked it, with a couple of things that kind of rubbed me the wrong way, which I’ll talk about in a second. Obviously, if you haven’t watched it yet, you probably shouldn’t be reading this. First of all, as usual, I [...]
Scientist 1: So, I want to share an idea I’ve been kicking around the old lab. I’m not going to give you a big pitch, though, just one word: Manaconda. Scientist 2: Wh… why would you do that? Scientist 1: I think what you meant to say was, “Why did I do that?” Scientist 3: [...]
Check out the poster I made for the radio station’s Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds! I’m pretty pleased with the way it turned out, even though the propaganda look I like so much doesn’t translate super-well to black and white. Still, the productions manager assures me that making it black and white means [...]
“Whether they ever discover life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.” – Jack Handey
unlike miles and his paranoid neal stephenson-induced techno-prognostico-delusions, i have a much brighter vision of the future! a future where you can have your auto-mobile any color you like, just as long as it’s black! with a chicken in every pot, and a cardboard cutout of scott and me in every living room (with a [...]
