The other day I took a subway to the Upper East Side where I met Ursula K. Le Guin in the lobby of a Courtyard Marriott. We agreed that it was one of the most depressing hotel lobbies we had ever seen, but she was in town to speak at the 92nd St. Y, and her regular hotel was under construction, so there we were.
Which is quite …
From games that keep toddlers busy while they wait, to sounds that capture a babies’ smile, to nursing trackers that help make feeding newborns a little easier, Time.com picks the top apps to download for a new mom this mother’s days.
As I’m not a real movie critic, I like to do my reviews in the form of thoughts-I-had-while-watching. Also that saves me the trouble of having an argument, or putting in transitions between paragraphs. Here goes. Minimal spoilers before the jump, bigger spoilers after.
(For thoughts I had before watching, click here.) (Also, we do …
I know I’m supposed to say “genius.” But I can never quite decide. After watching this video I’m no closer to making up my mind. But I kind of want to watch it again.
I like the part where the severed head cries.
Update: Well, they took it down for some reason. Maybe the awesome traffic from Nerd World crushed their server. Please …
Truly, J.R.R. Tolkien is the Tupac Shakur of the literary world. His son Christopher has once again raided the fell barrow where his corpse resides and found still another unpublished manuscript there, entitled The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. It goes on sale today.
That sounded sarcastic. The new book is definitely a legitimate, …
G.I. Joe. At last the remake Delta Force has so long deserved:
District 9. By Neill Blomkamp, the man who should be making Halo. A wonderful-looking long-form version of his great Alive in Joburg:
Charles Ardai is nerd royalty by any reasonable standard. He founded Juno in the 1990s. He’s married to Naomi Novik. Hasn’t he done enough?
Apparently not. Charles now runs a press called Hard Case Crime, which publishes old-school pulp fiction. Mostly crime stuff, duh. But it has come to Charles’s attention that the two-fisted …
Annoyed by March Madness? Baffled by Fantasy Football? Hate sports of all kinds? Then here’s a fun pastime for you and your ilk: a Summer Movie Box Office Fantasy Draft! But hurry – you don’t have much time!
The game is about using your Box Office predicting skills to select which summer movies will earn the most money. Then, …
I was excited to see Moon. Moody, cerebral thriller set on hyper-realistic one-man lunar base. Starring Sam Rockwell, apparently all by himself. It’s Cast Away meets Solaris! Except maybe good!
My excitement was slightly tempered when I found out that the director, Duncan Jones, is David Bowie’s son, because presumably if you’re David …
I have a think-piece in the magazine this week in which I think thoughts about Star Trek. Kind of a mental shake-down in preparation for the reboot. Fun fact: this marks the very first time Ro Laren’s name has appeared in Time magazine.
In the piece I invoke the TNG episode “Cause and Effect,” which is my all-time favorite Star Trek …
There’s an interesting interview over at Wired with Neil Gaiman talking about his current run writing Batman. Apparently DC decided to kill Batman, wait awhile, then reboot the whole franchise. Much as they did with Superman in the 1980′s. Back then, they had Alan Moore do the honors. The result was “Whatever Happened to the Man of …
It is the shame of contemporary medicine that people can still get strep throat. I feel like it should have been stamped out already. Like polio. Perhaps my children will live in such a world. I was born too early.
Because I had strep all weekend, and I also had a huge repetitive-labor task to perform, I watched a lot of movies, …
