I've started a geek review and editorial site with Curt Thompson, and we call it THREAT OR MENACE.   www.threatormenace.com ( Read more... )

So, the good news first. I haven't mentioned it here on my LJ yet, but Gretchen is currently three months pregnant! We just had another checkup today, and so far the baby's a good size, shape, heartrate, the works. The doctor thinks it's 80% likely we've got a boy coming, but at 13 and a half weeks, it's still too early to say for sure. So, ( Read more... )

So, show of hands -- is anyone else still reading this ( Read more... )

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Some years ago, I think around 2002, I was director of Live Programming for Anime Central.   By some chance, I found myself trading emails with Roger Ebert -- I had sent him an email thanking him for his coverage of Miyazaki films, helping raise their US profile as they were being released stateside ( Read more... )

Somewhere along the lines of my life, I picked up the idea that your birthday was the one day of the year when it was justified to be just a bit selfish, so long as you weren't being a jerk.

The problem is, I have no idea what I want to do today that would be in that spirit...

There's a thread on the Whitechapel forums (Warren Ellis' hangout spot) about atheism.    I made a post there, and I thought I'd repost it here ( Read more... )

On an impulse, I signed up for Twitter the other day.   My username there is isaacsher ( Read more... )

So, the third episode of Matt Smith's Doctor Who has come and gone.   Some good bits, but not as strong overall as the first two ( Read more... )

So, I just finished watching the second episode of Matt Smith's tenure as The Doctor.   Ahhh, Doctor Who, how I love thee ( Read more... )