The Name is Bond. Bond Villain
I respect the ranking that Mr. Jacob Hall has done in ranking every Bond villain.
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Think Local, Legislate Local
Perhaps it’s the fact that we had primary elections in my county yesterday… or that I got to know how much local politics mattered when covering city council meetings in college, but this article from the Guardian made me hopeful that the solution to a lot of things is some people standing up to get things done.
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In Space, No One Can Hear You…
Hopefully you’re not having a crappy Monday, but if you give a crap or, rather, need to crap, Daniel from Spacedock understands. Also, why YT-1300 freighter designers, WHY?!? Have you no concept of personal space?
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Clash of the Streaming Titans, Revisited
Just about a year ago, I was musing about the future of streaming TV –which seems to pretty much be “the future of TV”– and well… Things have gotten a lot more complicated. Content to be the Content Gorilla, Disney is poised to unleash its streaming juggernaut this Fall, basically giving us the Vault in on-demand form. All those lovely Disney properties on Netflix, of which there are many, will be gone too soon. Meanwhile,…
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The Uncomfortable Value of Networks in Creative Pursuits
Someone posted an article by Casey Lesser on Artsy about one of those things we creative folks already knew. Having a network is important. In this case, some MOMA researchers looked at artists in the 20th century, their personal networks of colleagues, and their work to do analysis on how much “who you know” helped. How to network is worth its own series of posts, but reading some of the observations was interesting… and there’s…
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TV Staying and Going – 2019 Edition
For those of you wondering what’s staying and going across the various networks, Vox has its usual list. If you’re like me, there’s going to be at least one “oh, that’s too bad” and one “really, that’s still on?” I should make Bingo cards one year.
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Where I’ll Be: Escape Velocity 2019
Wow, has it really been over a month since I’ve posted anything? Okay, well, I can’t go into everywhere that I’ve been, but I can tell you where I will be this weekend: Escape Velocity! Escape Velocity 2019 Promo from Museum of Science Fiction on Vimeo. I’ll be part of two panels and one performance…. Friday @ 8:20pm: Alien: 40 Years of Fright I get to chat with Charles de Lauzirika all about Alien and…
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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Distant Future of 2019
Back in 1983, prolific writer Isaac Asimov was asked to imagine what the world would be like well into the 21st Century: 2019 to be precise. Now, considering that much of his prolific writing was science fiction, it’s well worth reading. Remember, this is the guy who wrote the Foundation series which had the field of “psychohistory” that was able to predict future trends. I found his predictions to be prescient in some aspects and…
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Motivation and the Midlife Crisis
This is for all the Gen Xers out there, irretrievably in their 40s and 50s, facing Monday with Garfield-level malaise. Here’s an article by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic which I missed when it first came out in 2014, but seems to have hit me at just the right moment… and it might be just the right moment for you all as well. In feature story fashion, it goes into the anecdote of 40-somethings seemingly…
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The Music of DOOM! er, the Doomsday Machine
One of my favorite episodes of the original Star Trek and, I would argue, one of their best overall episodes, was the action-packed season two entry, “The Doomsday Machine.” A significant factor on why I believe it should be ranked so highly is because of the episode-specific music composed by Sol Kaplan. Viewers may recall the original series re-used a lot of music cues as a cost-cutting technique. The fact that they don’t do so…