Question: What is the chief end of the SyFy Channel?

Answer: The SyFy Channel's chief end seems to be to show some great shows, a lot more so-so programs, too many things that have nothing to do with science fiction, and a heckuva lot of truly sucky movies-of-the-week.

Question: When does a SyFy movie not suck?

Answer: A movie shown on the ( Read more... )

[new Spike/Captain John icon courtesy of Rahirah's fertile brain]

A co-worker just told me she and a friend will be attending this event in Roswell on July 3-5 (apparently as part of attending the larger UFO Festival in Roswell), in order to hear what their 'expert panel' has to say ( Read more... )

A co-worker forwarded me the link to this announcement of a 'symposium' on UFO's and Milton (er, I mean, aliens and some very peculiar 'Christian' interpretations of the Bible):

The "very first" Christian symposium on aliens will touch down in, where else? Roswell, N.M. this July ( Read more... )

(Still one-handed, so excuse any typos I missed!)

A friend at work passed along this Christianity Today article on Indiana Jones and the Deadly Blather. (Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for all four films ( Read more... )

Since visiting with MissMurchison while attending a local Science Fiction convention with Tanya Huff as the guest of honor will be much more fun (as well as a great deal more affordable) than going to Chicago for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion on November 1-4, I'm happily making my arrangements for a trip to Iowa, instead (to return home ( Read more... )

Yesterday, appomattoxco mentioned the 2002 novel by Rosemary Edghill (who also writes under the name "Eluki Bes Shahar" according to one reference I found), The Warslayer, to me in a comment, noting that it's now available free from Baen's free e-book library:

I was thinking of you yesterday as I read,"Warslayer" by Rosemary Edgehill. It's about an actress in ( Read more... )

I was looking for something else a little while ago, and instead stumbled across this recent Newsweek article:

Unhappily Ever After

Remember when children's books frolicked through tales of ponies and princes? The latest kid-lit craze is stories about living through the apocalypse-now. . . .
Maybe it's just all those Andre Norton sci-fi novels I ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say that I ended up seeing "Prince Caspian" (the second of the "Chronicles of Narnia" film adaptations) this past Sunday afternoon, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Granted, my expectations weren't too high, based on the very unsympathetic reviews I'd heard on radio and television AND on the fact that of all the Narnia books I ( Read more... )

I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this on LJ, but I just caught the last half of this report on NPR's Morning Edition this morning, and it did my heart immense good:

Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter's Soul
by Jamie Tarabay

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' saved the world and the sanity of NPR's Jamie Tarabay while she was in Baghdad. ( Read more... )

My boss-of-bosses had me searching for a particular bible edition today (New Revised Standard Version reference bible in an ultrathin, slimline, or trimline format -- no joy after much googling and searching on book-sellers' sites), but while I was looking for THAT I found THIS:

The MANGA BIBLE, illustrated by Manga artists: Read more... )