What the hell is it with people who complain about spoilers online? First off, I’ve never felt that knowing some detail or other before reading a book or seeing a movie has ever “spoiled” it for me. Bad directing, that’s spoiled movies for me. Plenty of movies. Bad acting? Sure! Bad writing? Oh, too...
Read more →Tonight Lime and I stopped in at the DVD-room and watched a movie. I urged her for us to start in on the mammoth Lord of the Rings Extended Edition series, but she didn’t feel like it and ended up asking the woman who words there for a recommendation. The woman, who recommended the...
Read more →Because I’m such an SF fan, people expect me to have something to say about Star Wars. I mean, it’s the final episode, the series is over (let’s hope Lucas really means it), and a chapter on SF movie history is closed, right? Bullshit. Star Wars was fine and all, at first. It was...
Read more →Some English Teachers have all the luck. Actually, I had a student once flash her chest at me. Not really flash, but she leaned forward and gave me a good view of what was going on down the front of her shirt (admittedly not much was going on) before sitting back with a big...
Read more →If you are, then I assure you, I’ve been mostly nice. And look at these two t-shirts (this one and the first one on this page) that I’d love to have. If there’s no Santa out there, I may have to mug someone with a credit card.
Read more →A Language Older Than Words, by Derrick Jensen. I have a hard time figuring out what to say about this book. If I’d read it when I was 20, I would have been all about the same things as Jensen, not because his message is immature or because I’ve “outgrown” some of the things...
Read more →Blog of Death had an entry in march for Andre Norton, who passed away earlier this year. I am a few months late, and have nothing much to add: I wasn’t a fan of her writing, personally, though I’d only tried a couple of novels at the time I decided that. But the woman...
Read more →This week’s Friday Five question comes from Mike, my neighbour and co-worker, who occasionally reads eclexys. Hi Mike! Here it is: If you were a superhero, what powers would your five worst super-villain enemies have? This isn’t such a hard question, since of course the powers that my enemies would have would be the...
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