REPOST: Call this prep work for my essay on the Silmarillion.  It was written in 1954, you can tell it was written in 1954 because it couldn’t be written today. This is a work of high tragedy that is strongly influenced by the Norse sagas.  If you like Game Thrones but would prefer that it […]

Read More Discussion: The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

I once had evening chow with a guy who had survived the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. For those of you too young to remember, this was a huge event in it’s day. It was the first of the Muslim suicide bombings (so far as we were concerned) and the biggest one day […]

Read More A Discussion – Monster Hunter Memoirs Sinners

Back in the dim mists of time. When Duran-Duran was on MTV and I was on campus, a new and profoundly bitter kind of undergrad was starting to appear at colleges across the country. The Non-Traditional Student. Also known as the returning drop-out. An odd creature that was and remains quite celebrated in pop-culture. I […]

Read More Don’t Go Back To College

You wouldn’t think it would be possible to make the Star Wars holiday special worse. I mean, some things just can’t be done right? Ostriches can’t fly. Water can’t be dry. John Scalzi will never write a decent book. And the Star Wars Holiday Special could not possibly get any worse.  And Mickey the Great […]

Read More Then They Came For the Holiday Special…

The Dragon Award ballot landed in my Email inbox recently, I put off opening it until tonight and now I wish to god that I hadn’t. The 2020 Dragon Award ballot is an SJW shit-fest. Look at these fucking nominees for best science fiction: The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (Tor) Network Effect by Martha […]

Read More The Dragons Have Fallen

As well the rest of Warner Brothers. AT&T recently detailed a roughly $830 million hit to second-quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization from the novel coronavirus pandemic and a roughly $2.8 billion revenue impact after in the first quarter having mentioned a $433 million earnings and a $600 million revenue hit. This is […]

Read More The Executions Are Under Way At DC

FIRST Mulan Quite a few people wanted to know that if once Mulan is purchased on Disney Plus, it will be available on any other platform. The answer is no. You will have to maintain a subscription to Disney Plus in order to access your copy of it. I realize this seems more evil than […]

Read More Blogs and Ends: Various Updates

Alex Kurtzman’s winning streak continues unabated. Now he’s failing at humor. Honestly, this shouldn’t be that hard. People have been doing funny Star Trek satire for better than 40 years. Secret Hideout could have hired some of Futurama’s old writers and then just got out of the way. But then Alex Kurtzman might have produced […]

Read More Yeah, It Sucks: Star Trek Lower Decks

UPDATE: Disney has announced that calling the Mulan VOD a rental was “a mistake.” Now it’s a flat-out “purchase.” Which makes more sense because (a) those that rent, won’t rent more than once at that price and (b) a straight sale will likely move more units. Especially if Disney includes “exclusive bonus content.” Can I […]

Read More Disney Kills Family Movie Night