Unlike those nice Pevensie kids from Narnia, there are some bad kids in the real world — like Arkansas’s Mitchell Johnson, co-murderer of five people at his middle school in Jonesboro ten years ago and recently rearrested for weapons and drug possession and for credit card fraud (his jailtime for the multiple murders having been […]
Today — May 16, 2008 — moviegoers are getting a small dose of Christian allegory along with more blatant forms of fantasy via the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Five and a half years ago, I was getting a big dose of Christianity in the small form of girlfriend Dawn Eden.
Dawn is […]
1. I linked to a parodic gay Star Trek video yesterday, but here’s a straighter Trek note to compensate: Let it never be forgotten, while you female readers are rushing off to see the new Sex and the City movie, that co-star Kim Cattrall was previously the traitorous Vulcan named Valeris in Star Trek […]
Much as I love the nerdy New Wave music genre, I’m often reminded, with wistfulness and nostalgia, that some of the greatest 80s songs didn’t quite fit the New Wave niche nor other obvious categories like classic rock and thus have not been remembered as vividly as they should be. For example:
•“Voices” by Russ […]
For me, the grand slam is connecting my four favorite topics (which readers must sometimes fear are the only four topics I like): (1) libertarianism, (2) science, (3) sci-fi-type stuff, and (4) rock n’ roll. I’m delighted, then, to notice a bit of trivia that connects the four, just in time for this, my […]
Well, last time I checked, I failed to find any clips of Wild Record Party (a short-lived, insane cable access show here featuring stuffed animals and puppets dancing to various old garage-rock-type numbers in front of album-cover backdrops) on YouTube, but, as it happens — since I don’t have cable and just watch the handful […]
•If you thought comparisons several months ago of Hillary Clinton to Thatcher were odd, check out how one UK blog sees her — as a Ron Paul figure (and not just because, like Paul, she doesn’t know when to stop).
•But enough about Hillary. With her fading, it’s time for all loyal Operation Chaos operatives to […]
In yesterday’s Retro-Journal entry, I mentioned McCain liking Teddy Roosevelt. TR was also a factor in my recent book review for New York Post of Panama Fever. And I think both TR and the fading Hillary Clinton were called socialists, which sounds about right to me, by Bill O’Reilly after HRC likened […]
Today, audiences thrill to the big-screen adventures of Speed Racer — much as they thrilled to our debate on congestion pricing for Manhattan traffic on Wednesday — but six years ago…
I first met people who explored the City not horizontally but vertically, the “urban exploration” buffs of the Jinx Society, who ventured into sewers and […]
Since ancient times, men of learning (like the ones who gathered at last night’s congestion pricing debate) have recognized that to be well-rounded, one should know not only the ways of the Time Trapper and the Sith but also the laws of the natural world.
Toward that end, New York City will be overrun in three […]
I only just learned, from Wiki., that it’s unclear that the Library at Alexandria was actually destroyed, let alone burned by barbarians, which counts as some sort of ironic meta-meta-meta-ignorance, I think.
But speaking of hot librarians, remember that tonight at 8 all the brainy folk will be at Lolita Bar for our big debate on […]
The Drudge-linked item about Newt warning the GOP to shape up is in fact about three layers of competing cosmetic bullshit, wrapped in book-promotion PR by Newt, wrapped in an article by Dennis Kucinich’s daughter, which strikes me as a fascinating little capsule lesson in how far removed from dealing in an un-spun, non-partisan way […]
OK, this is only partly a sci-fi-nerd question, but: What do Iron Man, Bobby Jindal, and I all have in common? Grappling, as conservatives, with Brown University.
•At least, one antiwar reporter character who gives Tony Stark a hard time in Iron Man is described as a Brown grad (and goes on to reveal other […]
This year belongs to all nerds — with an upbeat May (Iron Man, Speed Racer, Prince Caspian, Indy), unpredictable June (Hulk), dark July (Batman, Hellboy, X-Files), British November (Harry Potter, Bond), and UFOlogical December (Keanu in The Day the Earth Stood Still).
Next year, a bit quieter by my reckoning, belongs mainly to the discriminating superhero […]
No more entries on the complexities of DC Comics continuity (I already did two and my Month of the Nerd is only on its fourth day). Indeed, if one too deeply contemplates DC continuity problems, one will end up like Batman in this disturbing video clip (akin in some ways to the classic “Insanity Test” […]
