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Retro Review: Tales of the Gold Monkey

I have mixed feelings regarding the DVD industry that’s built up to sell us television, which we essentially get for free over the airwaves (at least, mostly free), but I can’t deny that one of the perks is the fact that shows from my childhood are available again.  In some cases, this is a horrible [...]

Random Thoughts for July 15th 2010

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My mom accidentally locked the cats in the basement for a few hours.  She went down there to look for something, didn’t realized she’d been followed, walked up the stairs, shut the door and then headed up to the second floor to clean her bathroom and bedroom.  She kept hearing them meowing and [...]

Warehouse 13, Haven and Eureka!

So.  The channel formerly known as SciFi hit the ground running once again with some summer programming.  First we had Warehouse 13.

…spoilers abound.  You have been warned.

The cliffhanger episode has become a staple of the genre show.  It was once used by soap opera type shows like Dallas to pull viewers in and get them [...]

Random Thoughts for July 9, 2010

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I wish I could better streamline my day and time.  Aren’t we all about that?  Getting more done, having more time, etc and so on?

I find there are times when I wish my body wouldn’t betray my brain; I want to write, to work on this or that, but my body is all, [...]

Top 10 things John @Scalzi should do now that he’s Prez of the SFWA

Since the news that John Scalzi is now the President of the SFWA wasn’t the Top 10 list on Letterman – Travesty, right? I mean – come on Letterman! Finger on the pulse – finger ON THE PULSE! AND, since Scalzi did a top 10 list of his own (DAMMIT! I WAS SCOOPED! John Lennon [...]

John Picacio – Art nerd?

Once again, my friend John Anealio and I had the privilege of hosting a fantastic guest over on the Functional Nerds podcast. John Picacio is an award winning artist who has put together some of the most memorable cover art I’ve seen in a long time.

His covers grace books from many different publishers, have won [...]

RC Cola, Moonpies and Zombies

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I knew I had a problem the moment I walked through the sliding doors at the Mega-lo-mart and saw Zombies eating people.

Now, the President of these United States had just been on the idiot box telling us that we could get along with the Zombies if we just tried [...]

Where’d Stargate go? Oh yeah – Wrestling replaced it

John Anealio gave me some shit last week on the Functional Nerds podcast because I always say, ‘The channel formerly known as SciFi’ when talking about the former SciFi Channel, now called ‘SyFy’.

I say it because it’s my way of pointing out the absurdity of the whole name change bs.  I would also ridicule the [...]

If it’s not canon, you can ignore it, right? (Star Wars)

Well.

It’s all over the net (io9, TVSquad, IGN) that Lucasfilm Director of Fan Relations Steve Sansweet suggested that a new animated series would continue the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa.

How, isn’t quite clear yet.

People are kinda confused, to tell you the truth.  Including me – which is why I’m posting [...]

MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers

Whoa!

That’s what I said. I said ‘whoa!’ when I saw an email in my inbox from John DeNardo over at sfsignal.com.  It said: HEY YOU! ATFMB GUY! RIDDLE ME THIS:

Q: What are some of your favorite genre crossovers?

(He may have actually written it out much nicer than that)

Giddy, I responded (at the last possible moment, [...]