Archive for Queer
This year’s Hugo ballot has a (one-year-only) Best Video Game category. I had heard of (but not played) most of the nominated games, but was curious about one in particular that I had never heard of: Blaseball. Turns out that it’s a free, web-based “absurdist […] take on fantasy baseball,” in which you bet imaginary […]
In fiction (in various media), I occasionally see jokes in which one presumably-straight character jokingly implies that they or another presumably-straight character aren’t really straight. I feel like there are kind of three levels of such jokes: It would be a bad thing if character x weren’t straight. It would be totally fine if character […]
Am reading Defiance #2: a paperback magazine of the US revolutionary left, published in 1971, edited by Dotson Rader. Pretty interesting stuff. Articles include: Rader’s introduction, which recommends abandoning electoral politics in favor of joining the imminent revolution. A piece by two young white men who were part of the NYC branch of Weatherman (aka […]
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “ The Disappearance of James H___,” by Hal Duncan In a British boarding...
Last night, I rewatched the Branagh Henry V, which led me to look some stuff up in the original play....
I'm really looking forward to the new Ultimates comic book series. The team will consist of Ms. America, Black Panther,...
Spent way too much time reading comics over the past couple days when I should've been doing other stuff. But...
In the late 1980s, I was delighted to discover N. Leigh Dunlap's comic strip Morgan Calabresé. It was mostly about...
I wrote this the other day for a discussion of (among other things) works that do and don't pass the...
It's been almost exactly twelve years since I posted a blog entry titled “Queer sf,” in which I noted that,...
I'll be arriving in London on Wednesday morning; Mary Anne and I will spend the day hanging out and battling...
When I saw the trailer for Lucy a few months back, the movie looked pretty bad to me, but I...