Category Archives: Popular Culture
Halftime In America
In the real America.
Why Star Wars And SF Don’t Actually Suck
Brian Preston rebuts Kathy Shaidle.
A New Cocktail
@VodkaPundit should like this: an Alien Brain Hemorrhage.
[Via Geek Press]
John Carter’s Long Road
…from the Civil War to the silver screen. Might be worth seeing in a theater.
By the way, we had a discussion at dinner Sunday night as to whether Cowboys And Aliens is the worst movie ever made. It’s pretty bad, but that’s very high bar.
Meanwhile, On Tatooine
Science Fiction Faces Facts
Greg Benford writes about the evolution of science fiction through the space age, up to now, as part of the Reason space issue.
Science Advisors To The Stars
I’ve long complained about stupid scientific inaccuracies in films, but some people in Hollywood are making more of an attempt to get it right.
Obama’s New Logo For Disneyworld
It is sort of metaphorical that he’s shutting down Main Street USA for his speech.
[Update a few minutes later]
Heh: “Embargoed excerpt of President Obama’s remarks at Disney World, FL, today: ‘It is a small world, after all. It is a small, small, world.'”
[Early afternoon update]
Here are the actual photos. As noted over there, this is surefire campaign-ad material.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Elon’s Problems
…with marriage and rockets — a report from Alan Boyle.