at Balticon…

Finally got here — took “only” six hours by car, thanks to some sort of horrific logjam on I-95 in Delaware. I wanted to get to my review of Postal before I had to head out to my panels and stuff, but now that won’t happen. I should have time tomorrow, though…

Recount (review)

I love having raw wounds ripped open, like the one that smarts every day when I see the smoking ruin that is America in 2008 and wonder, Geez, how different would things be if Al Gore had been president these last eight years?

my summer of David Tennant and ‘Hamlet’

So you may have heard — certainly I’ve mentioned it here — that David Tennant, aka the current Doctor Who, will be appearing in Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon this summer and autumn. (Performances start in July, and I think they’re all sold out.) I’ve got tickets to … more…

Secret Smile (review)

If you love David Tennant and don’t want to have to take a toothbrush to your brain to excise images of him as a creep on orders of magnitude both deranged and criminal, then skip ‘Secret Smile.’

the price of gas impacts celebrity news

Oh noes! People magazine has to change its production schedule because the companies that drive the trucks that deliver the final printed magazines to stores and newsstands are cutting back on their schedules, in an effort to save gas. The New York Post explains: People magazine, under pressure from wholesalers, is moving its deadlines up … more…