[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.] (199.6 pounds) Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Ronald D. Moore is in the house. He had his start with the spec script that became the episode “The Bonding,” but here he adds complexity [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
ExerTrek: The Vengeance Factor
[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.] (198.6 pounds) Is it me or are the Gatherers a race of men who look like Meat Loaf? Fortunately, there aren’t any female Gatherers in this episode. The Enterprise helps mediate a [...]
Too…Many…Beef…Sticks
(Vegetarians, beware: meat porn ahead.) Aimee’s father runs a place in Danville, Ohio where you drop off your hooved animals and come back later to pick up delicious steaks, burgers, and sausage made from them. I try very hard to pretend that they walk willingly into a magical fairy land where their bodies are upgraded [...]
ICFA: The Conference That Was
Oh, yes: last week, we attended the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, and we took some pictures. We went to see Sandra present her paper: “Presenting Papers for Little Fun and Less Profit, Indeed a Loss.” And then, in a frenzy of intellectual exploration, we went to the Lego Store. All my [...]
New Review: Childhood’s End
My latest review at Guys Lit Wire is now live, discussing a science fiction book quite dear to me: “From Recession to the Stars: Childhood’s End.”
ExerTrek: The Price
[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.] (195.6 pounds) Sweet merciful Christ, please tell me I didn’t just watch Counselor Troi receive an oiled footrub. Likewise, assure me that I hallucinated Doctor Crusher asking if she was “especially limber” [...]