I've seen the movies and TV shows and have read the books.

I know that guys who, in the past, have shared drinks, drugs, friends, and song sometimes get back together for a little while, and I know how those reunions are supposed to go. The guys should take a vacation from their marriages, responsibilities, and restraint by coveting and sometimes ( Read more... )

I used to drink a lot. Like, a lot. And in retrospect, my dark, nightmarish days of drugs and alcohol weren't really all that nightmarish. A lot of mistakes and illness can be attributed to those things, but half the time I spent on some kind of bender was actually fun.

And so when someone asked me a few days ago if--after three years and change of ( Read more... )

So the legend goes like this: in 1989, television scribe Joe Michael Stracynski (once the head writer for the smarter-than-expected children’s toy tie-in, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future) pitched to Paramount Studios an idea for a darker-than-average show about a space station with a number in its name that was filled with diplomatic ( Read more... )

I'm going to repeat this because it bears repeating.

It begs the question: is there a way to think and talk about it without making it a fetish? I'll be back to ask again in another nine years.


( Scientific spookiness below the cut...if you dare... )

So, I recently read this article about George Lucas, and it got me thinking of the first movie I remember ever seeing, Star Wars. I call it Star Wars and not its "proper" name, which is Episode IV: A New Hope. I do this not because I'm a snob or because I hate how George Lucas has ruined all the movies with Jar-Jar Binks or Han Shot First or ( Read more... )

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