let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Origin: England Churchill: The Hollywood Years was a production of the English film industry. This movie is less how Americans remember the WWII and more how the English think Americans remember WWII. The jokes are also geared to a specific subset of the English that find Harry Enfield and testicle jokes funny. That is not to say the movie is …
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I have a confession to make: I love Deep Space Nine. I don’t know what I was doing when I first saw Man Trap or Encounter at Farpoint or Wrath of Khan, but I can tell you exactly what I was doing when I saw Emissary. I was 12 years old sitting in my room huddled with …
This is the intersection on my brain made manifest. As Kevin Pollack would say, I need to take a knee… (found through http://iwannageekout.com/) Re-blogged from The Study of Mettle (via geekmythology)
The Pirate Movie Background: The Pirate Movie is a modern interpretation of Gilbert’s and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, one of their better know works. The Movie is told in a dream sequence by the unconscious Mabel, played here by Kristy McNichol. The original light opera was mainly told, like most operas by G&S, through the point of view of …
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What is Science Fiction? A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. -Theodore Sturgeon Science fiction is anything published as science fiction. -Norman Spinrad The truth is somewhere between these two positions. The …
Updated tentative schedule for next month: Aug. 05 the new planet of the apes opens, hope to have a quick review up shortly after… Aug. 06 what – what is science fiction, which came first and why it is important… Aug. 13 Mahabharata – the indian epic that could be the oldest example of science …
What is the point? My inner rationalist asks as I try to type out this first post of what should be a very straight forward blog. The premise is simple if not entirely easy to explain: Science Fiction was bad, then good, is bad again (kinda), and will be great again (probably). See, simple. But, how do …
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