Archive for Television
Tonight, Kam and I watched the first three eps of season 5 of ST:TNG: “Redemption,” part 2, featuring the surprise appearance of a certain new Romulan character (we remembered her, and had been awaiting her arrival for some time, but we had both forgotten a big important piece of her backstory). (She also appeared very […]
Didn’t sleep much or well on Friday night, I think mostly because I stayed up way too late reading and playing iOS games. Hung out with Karen and Pär and Jeremiah during the day on Saturday, mostly playing Terraforming Mars, which has become one of my favorite boardgames. Then came home to help Kam move […]
I'm watching Underground season 2, episode 1, “Contraband,” and I just got to a scene in which one of the...
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Prisoners of Uqbaristan,” by Chris Nakashima-Brown A dizzying post-cyberpunk melange of media psyops,...
I've been really enjoying the current storyline in Agents of SHIELD. It's doing a virtual-reality take on a sort of...
I find the whole Mandela Effect thing intriguing. (A group of people remembering something that didn't happen.) Here's one I...
A few assorted life updates: My knee injury has continued to heal, but still very slowly. But at least the...
At WisCon 2014, Vylar Kaftan introduced a bunch of us to a very entertaining fast-paced casual game called Slash: it's...
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
I'm sad to see that Television Without Pity is shutting down on April 4. Looks like they'll be taking their...
I've been meaning for months to blog about specific works and people I'm going to nominate for the Hugos, and...