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Firefly

question of the day: Which villains deserve stories of their own?

Wed, Oct 10, 2012
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Pop culture is full of villains bursting with personality and charisma or merely so terrifyingly capable of evoking horror that we cannot look away from them. Yet these awesome bad guys inevitably take a backseat to the square-jawed white-bread hero. Time to rectify that.

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watch the Firefly 10th-anniversary panel from Comic-Con (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, Jul 15, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Why does geek fandom hold grudges for so long?

Wed, Jun 20, 2012
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Does it serve any purpose beyond tribal bonding? Has the Net era encouraged and amplified geek grudge-holding? Will fandom ever learn how to forgive and forget?

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question of the day: What is the greatest aspect of Fox’s legacy, 25 years in?

Tue, Apr 24, 2012
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The X-Files? In Living Color? The Simpsons? Firefly? Something else?

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The Cabin in the Woods movie review: the end of horror

Mon, Apr 09, 2012
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I don’t know how anyone can possibly make a horror movie again. This absolutely genius movie renders all past and future examples of the genre superfluous.

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Saturday cute: adorable knitted Bender hat

Sat, Mar 17, 2012
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Kiss my fuzzy yarny head.

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watch it: a capella science fiction music

Mon, Feb 13, 2012
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Singing group Novis belts out a selection of sci-fi theme music. Deeply nerdiriffic.

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Doctor Who thing of the day: the Doctor goes Looney Tunes

Mon, Jan 30, 2012
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Found this tee-hee T-shirt at TeeFury too late for us to grab it. But it’s still hugely amusing and worth marveling at…

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question of the day: What piece of clothing from a movie (or TV show) would you actually purchase and wear?

Wed, Nov 23, 2011
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Back in the spring we talked about iconic Hollywood costumes, but this is more about functional clothing that happened to become costume, and the wearing of which lends some mojo — or serves as a sign of fandom.

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‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Wedding of River Song”

Sun, Oct 02, 2011
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Can a thing be overly complicated and too simplistic at the same time? All that to-ing and fro-ing. All that buttoning and unbuttoning.

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