I've been wondering about the general cosmology of Supernatural, and if they'd worked out any sort of backstory/canon for the nature of the universe ( Read more... )

In seeing shows like 4400, Heroes, Alphas, Misfits, et cetera, I've always hoped someone would try a thing where the folks had powers that fit together for some big scheme/job that would be the season's metaplot arc. Something along the lines of the flying person drops the invulnerable person through the skylight so they can crack the door for the ( Read more... )

Excerpt from Chapter 12 of Declare, by Tim Powers.

There was no blood on the flat board of the saddle; only, caught in the folds of the blanket and on the saddlebag flap buckles, a scatter of jewelry. Hale stepped from the camel's neck onto the small Oman saddle, and he knelt swayingly up there as he scraped and picked up a handful of the ( Read more... )

Something that comes up somewhat often in time-travel works of speculative fiction is the whole "changing the past" thing. Recently, in Doctor Who, the whole predestination paradox (or as I like to call it, 'circular causality') thing has been cropping up quite a bit. Technically, it happens just about any time anyone goes back and tries to make ( Read more... )

On my way to work today, I got to thinking about my "I Love the 21st Century" Greatest American Hero spiel. This side-tracked to thinking about a remake (which apparently they're planning, as a film. To quote wikipedia, "A movie based on The Greatest American Hero is scheduled for release in 2012. Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, and Will Ferrell are all ( Read more... )

I've been watching a fair amount of Lost Girl this last week, and just now there was an episode that featured an odd little board game.

Two folks were sitting on either end of it. One player rolled a 2, started to clear tokens off the board, but the other player said, "Not even a pig steals from a wedding" and put some pieces back. The other ( Read more... )

For the last day or so, the Fairpoint DSL connection at home has been flaky, so we're switching over (currently! As I type this, supposedly!) to Roadrunner digital cable, instead. The only reason we'd kept a land phone-line was due to having the DSL, so with the internet-access switch-over, we'll be losing the land-line (...handy warning for those ( Read more... )

So based on someone's suggestion, I started watching Fringe. I like it so far, save for one bit where someone was aging super-rapidly and ended up with grey hair (with the hair at the previous, pre-aging length, and no pile of lost hairs around the person's shoulders), and another bit where they tagged a flatlining person with a defibrillator. ( Read more... )

You know Giacomo's? The place that's been opening at night, so I have a thing to do when I get out of work?

Tonight, when I walked by the (unfortunately closed on a Tuesday) store, I happened to glance at the window.

They're showing Rocky Horror at 1:30 AM, Halloween Night.


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Although they've yet to arrive in the mail, I bought my first DVDs! Now, I actually already have DVDs, but none that I bought -- I've Faulty Towers (sent to me by my mom), a few that folks burnt for me (Santa & the Ice Cream Bunny, and the first two seasons of the new Doctor Who), and a few that I found (Bowling for Columbine, Slaughterhouse Five, ( Read more... )