Month: May 2008

me at Balticon this weekend

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I’ve got my final schedule for Balticon, the Baltimore regional science fiction convention I’ll be attending over Memorial Day weekend. (The con still does not have me listed as a confirmed program participant, but I will be there.) I’ll be on a bunch of panels during the weekend: Friday 7pm New media and copyright Friday … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Postal,’ ‘Dreams With Sharp Teeth’

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Slow movie week for me: I’ve got two big nonmovie projects due this week, and unfortunately they are demanding serious attention. But I’ll catch the notorious Uwe Boll’s latest opus, Postal [opens limited May 23], partly because I’m so shocked that it’s actually being screened for critics, and partly because I’m dying to see how … more…

a pint of ‘Doctor Who’?

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I’m not sure that “a pint of Adipose beer” has quite the ring to it that a beer drinker is looking for, but I bet that’s not stopping anyone. Though I suspect the Martha Jones and the Astrid brews are more popular. Do you think Falstaff Brewery in Derby, England, serves Tennant’s lager, too? It’s … more…

Cranford (review)

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I’m not sure that I was expecting anything from ‘Cranford’ other than the usual twee pleasures of British costume drama, which are, for me, quite delightful indeed…

just saw ‘Indiana Jones’…

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I’ll have more to say in a couple of days, but I can’t contain myself now. I’ve just come from my screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and I just have to say: they didn’t fuck it up. I am a happy geek today. (Technorati tags: Indiana Jones)