Not that I procrastinate or anything, but I bought the 2013 edition of the World Almanac and Book of Facts today -- only a month or two before the 2014 edition comes out. I also picked up the 2014 Writer's Market.

This evening's going to consist of enjoying some peace and quiet at home, where I'm finally getting around to watching Star Trek Into ( Read more... )

With the release of the movie Looper, LiveScience has posted its obligatory "Is time travel really possible?" article. It seems to be some sort of constant in the universe that any time a new book or movie dealing with time travel comes out, this kind of article is required in all science publications ( Read more... )

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  Dear Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul: The GOP primaries are over. Mitt Romney is the nominee. Your opponent has stopped even referring to any of you. President Obama is campaigning against Governor Romney, not against any of you. In case that's not a big enough hint for you, maybe you should listen to your own party's super- ( Read more... )

I had never even heard of The Hunger Games before all of the hype about the movie started. Usually I'm a fan of dystopian fiction--1984 is still a candidate for my favorite novel of all time. I'm even a fan of young adult dystopian novels--for example The Giver, even though it was very disturbing. But when I heard about the premise of The Hunger ( Read more... )

I just finished watching The Siege, expecting nothing more than your run-of-the-mill action movie for some mindless entertainment. What I got instead was a gripping, powerful exploration of what happens to a society struggling to deal with terrorism. Considering that the film was made in 1998, it might have been taken as a chilling warning about ( Read more... )