Scarlett Johansson is a clone!

My favorite email ever, posted in its entirety because it’s so wonderfully insane. I received this today: Hello dear ladies and gentlemen! I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person, which has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original … more…

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.’