When I-like the rest of the Internet-got hooked on True Detective, I-like the rest of the Internet-did note the very male focus and lack of strong female characters. Oh, for a show like True Detective with a female lead! The Internet informed me that the show I sought already existed in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Top of the Lake, which I had ( Read more... )

On the surface, Adventure Time looks like an incredibly silly children's show. It's about a boy (Finn the Human) and a dog (Jake the Dog) having adventures fighting bizarre monsters and disregarding all laws of physics and anatomy. There's someone called the Ice King who goes around stealing princesses. The main female character is named Princess ( Read more... )

"I need to watch some better movies," I said last time. I...did not.

( Cool Hand Luke: B/B+ )

Since Friday night, all my meals have been pizza. PIZZA.

The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective ($20): Fresh corn, zucchini, mozzarella and feta cheese, garlic olive oil, Key limes, cilantro. The pizza was SO GOOD (even though I had to pick off the cilantro). Cheeseboard makes one vegetarian pizza a day, so the long line moves deceptively fast since ( Read more... )

Last night I finished Changeless, by Gail Carriger, the sequel to Soulless, which I enjoyed. I liked this book even more, really. Since it's the second book, we can get right into the actual plot without spending time explaining all the worldbuilding, so there's much more of a sense of purpose than in Soulless, which meandered about for hundreds of ( Read more... )

Like those who grew up on the Adam West/Burt Ward Batman television show of yore, I grew up on Batman: The Animated Series. So when I discovered the DVDs at Newbury Comics for CRAZY LOW PRICES, I eagerly scooped them up so I could mainline all 109 episodes, many of which I had not seen.

By now, pretty much everyone has read or seen Batman in some ( Read more... )

I am a guy who really likes Batman.And now I can see all my Batman comics because I FINALLY BOUGHT BOOKSHELVES AFTER HAVING LIVED HERE FOR THREE FUCKING YEARS. All my graphic novels look so pretty! And all my books, my precious books, overflowing in another bookshelf in my bedroom. I did some unpacking and tidying up this weekend, and my place ( Read more... )

Previously on Buffista F2F: Seattle Edition-I arrived in Seattle, hung out with friends, and explored the city a bit. Then I hung out with Buffistas a lot. When last you saw me, I was leaving Plei's brunch to make my own way to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.

( Saturday afternoon: Science Fiction Museum, Experience Music Project, and snack )

If you haven't heard, Chuck and Dollhouse have been renewed, and The Sarah Connor Chronicles is, as expected, pretty much dead on toast.

Today, I went to the San Francisco Zoo! With Lisa (danea) and Rick (ellric) and Seanan (cadhla) and Cat (ceolyn) and a couple of Seanan's co-workers. Do you like animals? ANIMALS ARE PRETTY COOL! Here, have a zoo picspam.

( Animals! So many animals! All shapes and colors and sizes! )

So I noticed you were gone for a couple days.

Did you? That's very sweet.

Yeah, it's like you were totally offline from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon. What was up with that?

Well, I was at Asilomar attending the American Medical Writers Association Regional Conference. Don't you remember when I did that last year?

You say a lot of ( Read more... )