Well, that half a week went by fast ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why I'm so enthused that the producers of Smallville seem to be keeping Lucas Grabeel around until the end of the season. I thought for sure when they announced Michael Rosenbaum would be back for the Finale that it meant the end of the Alexander Clone played by Grabeel -- but then there was the cliff-hanger ending a few weeks back ( Read more... )

The class here in Saint Louis is a nice group, so the class is going well.  Weather's been a little wet and dreary still.  I went in search of the Borders nearby, and found it but didn't find the book I was looking for, so bought nothing (I know, I know, amazing self-restraint ( Read more... )

Well, the class here in Chicago went well. 39 people all told, quite a few who were here almost 4 years ago when I left the wireless microphone on while at the urinal in the men's room across the hall.  We had a good laugh, talking about it and filling other people in on it. I also shared my "run out of town by the Houston Sheriff's Department" ( Read more... )

I am going to try to catch up on tv episode thoughts for a few different series from last week, so that I can head into tomorrow night at least caught up.

Or at least, that was my plan until I realized --- I still haven't watched last week's FlashForward.  I did have a busy weekend, though, so it sort of makes sense.  Okay, so no Flashforward ( Read more... )

Since I'm waiting out meeting friends for dinner (6pm -- too soon after work ends to go home and come back out, since the restaurant is 10 minutes up the road from work, but too far after work to leave at 5pm) I thought I'd put up a quick thought or two on last week's Smallville.  I do believe this is the first Smallville episode I've reviewed in ( Read more... )

Strange Visitors (Smallville, book one) by Roger Stern,  isbn 9780446612135, 285 pages, Aspect,  $5.99

I met Roger Stern at a small comic book convention in Ithaca NY back in 1992 (possibly early 1993, can't remember the exact date) when I was reviewing comics for The Octagon, the Elmira College newspaper. He was a nice guy, very willing to answer ( Read more... )

Hey, kids!  I managed to see TWO whole episodes of Smallville in a row ....!

Well, I finally got to see Laura Vandervroot as Kara ... and of course, she's amnesiac.  Oh well.

I thought this episode was heavy-handed to say the least.  Many of the scenes were overplayed.  The motivations of the obstensible "bad guy" were never really fully explained.  ( Read more... )

Wow.  I actually caught a second Smallville episode this season.  Enough has happened since the last episode I caught (the one just before Christmas in which we, if not Lana, found out that the Clark she was cuddling with was Bizarro-Clark while the real thing was trapped in the Fortress) that I felt a little lost, but not too much ( Read more... )

I'm lumping these together for what should be obvious reasoning.

Story 7: Expose by Jake Black from Smallville magazine Sept-Oct 2006 issue.
Story 8: Quest by Brandon T. Snider from Smallville magazine Jan-Feb  2008 issue.
Story 9: Hole by Tom Inkel from Smallville magazine Nov-Dec 2007 issue.
Story 10: Project Solomon by Neal Bailey from Smallville ( Read more... )