Note: Up in the Air spoilers, offensive generalizations about all four Hogwarts houses, and much rank self-justification below.

For over a month I've been struggling to get into postable condition my thoughts about Up in the Air, which I saw twice over the holidays. Coming at the end of a year marked by deep anger at my own employer and sharp ( Read more... )

Note: Half-Blood Prince spoilers, and a lot of wild-eyed theorizing about Deathly Hallows, below.

It's been a long time coming; maybe I'm way behind the curve on this. But having finished Half-Blood Prince and seen the movie yesterday, it's official: I am obsessed with Snape. With things coming to such a head for him, how could it be otherwise? In ( Read more... )

Like much of the Alternate Trekoverse, I am deeply curious about the origins of this thing that Uhura and Spock evidently have going on. I mean...Spock, people. In love! In lust! In a state of... non-indifference! Vis-a-vis a human! Vis-a-vis anyone! How? Where? When? Why? The Enterprise's communications officer is smoking hot, to be sure, but that ( Read more... )