I’m guessing it will be hard to have #Sex after the finale, unless you’re #Evil.
Yes, this was a post made for #Twitter.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Lions And Bears, Oh My
Chicago’s not having a good day. Detroit got off to a slow start, but they’re starting to run away, 30-10 near the end of the first half.
The ObamaCare Video Contest
Give Remy the prize.
Joss Whedon
The definitive interview.
The Wolverines
They may pull this out, and remain undefeated, but they’re not looking like a ranked football team. They’re being outplayed by UConn.
[Update in the last couple minutes of the game]
OK, Michigan managed to pull out a squeaker again against a low-ranked team.
This does not bode well for either the Big Ten season, or the season in general. They’re going to have to step it up.
Captain Video
Lileks has a review:
Now. Let’s think. The escape portion is the rear. It has no controls or power, according to Captain Video. Yet that’s where the engine was. So the escape pod is powerless and rudderless even though it has the engine, and that’s what you get into to escape. From onrushing asteroids. How? By disengaging from the front half, which cuts off the engines, which makes the escape capsule fall.
Captain Video and the Ranger landed on the planet when the gravity of Atoma took their escape capsule and laid it down gently about 14 feet from the front door of the evil bad guy’s lair. What a stroke of luck! They dress up as natives. Aliens always dress like 19th century Arabs with big futuristic guns.
It was amazingly bad, almost Plan-9-like.
Fiction Imitates Life
A brief, but amusing review from Instapundit:
Set in an America that has become a corrupt state, run by an inbred political class drawn from just a few select universities and overseeing a populace of “cogs” who have no real legal protection against the state, while the civil government is sharply divided from the military, these science fiction books provide an excellent source of escapism from the unpleasant realities of today.
We laugh, so we don’t cry.
Fred Pohl
Rest in peace.
He wrote great fiction, but his economics was short sighted.
In general, SF writers aren’t that great at economics — (too) many of them are, after all, leftists, particularly the New Wave types. Heinlein was one of the few who generally got it right.
Camille
She takes on the Hillary worshippers, and the Baby Boomers. #TalkinBoutMyGeneration
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
A review of an old SF movie. From Lileks. With a bonus Avengers theme and Benny Goodman.