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Too Good For This World, Not Good Enough For The Other
Having decided not to re-up Amazon Prime until I really need it, I've put on the jets and powered through the 16 episodes of Man In The High Castle that I'd been putting off ( Read more... ) -
About 60 light years from Earth, there are two stars...
I've created a romantic science fiction audio drama called Companions, which can be heard or downloaded on my new wordpress blog. Check it out if you think you might enjoy a technological love story in space with the future of humanity at stake.
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It Went Something Like This
There are a fair number of songs that refer to the existence of other songs, for instance Del Shannon's "Runaway" is being listened to by the protagonists of both Tom Petty's "Running Down A Dream" and Barenaked Ladies' "When You Dream", and Miley Cyrus listens to a bunch of other artists in the course of "Party In The U.S.A.". A rarer and arguably ( Read more... ) -
My new project
I have a new project underway! A while back I wrote a sci-fi romance play called Companions and submitted it to Chicago's Coffee & Whiskey Productions. They accepted it, put on a one-day minimalist show of it, and it all went great ( Read more... ) -
John & Jane went up the timeline, to catch a fizzle bomber.
Having watched the time-travel / gender identity thriller Predestination at least three times now, I'm even more fascinated by it, and decided to straighten out its timeline in terms of when in their lifetimes the key figures meet each other (it's pretty much all spoilers, so recommend you see the movie first).
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Number One...Dad?
I saw a picture of the main cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine posted on Facebook referred to as a "family portrait", and it got me thinking about how, although Sisko & Kira are central to the photo a la a father & mother, they do not have that parental dynamic in quite the way other Trek crews do ( Read more... ) -
“One can begin so many things with a new person!"
I recently read George Eliot's Middlemarch, and reviewed it on Goodreads. I found it a very interesting & enjoyable slice of English realistic romance despite it occasionally getting very verbose about things already established ( Read more... ) -
Never Get To The Fireworks Factory
The biggest change in television in the past decade or so is, to me, that many people have gone from wanting a show that progresses by hitting various universal notes, to one that hits the notes especially well, to one that resists the lure of the usual notes altogether, at least as far as its central elements go. In other words, to adapt Millhouse ( Read more... ) -
How Kirkly?
Re-watching various Star Trek pilots lately (triggered by the Trekabout podcast finally reaching Deep Space Nine), I started comparing the various series to each other not in terms of which are better, but which are most like The Original Series (which is not at all the same thing).
The Next Generation has hands-down the most tangible connections ( Read more... )
