I’m fairly certain that this is how every meeting Inside the writer’s room of Battlestar Galactica starts:
“Ok guys, which characters’ lives can we completely ruin even more than we’ve already done?”
Yes, I know, two posts in a row demanding that you go consume some prescribed media, but too bad.
As per Danny’s (implied) suggestion (he’s not steered me wrong yet), I picked up a copy of Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man. The book is a “police procedural” (think CSI, but cool), set in the XXIVth […]
Brad and I have this method for finding new music. We walk down the aisle, and pick up any CDs that have really cool-looking cover art.
I was at Blockbuster yesterday, and using that method, I picked up Dot the I. The basic plot looks like your standard guy meets girl, they fall in […]
It’s just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Alex’s mother, a staunch supporter of the communist GDR (heh, I still think it’s funny that it’s DDR in German) suffers a heart attack which leaves her in a coma. She wakes up months later, and Alex must keep the truth about the Wall […]
I just finished watching the French (and Spanish) film L’Auberge Espagnole. Let’s get one thing straight: I love languages. This film has a wonderful mix of French, Spanish, English (British and American!), Italian, Danish, and German - as well as native speakers of the above languages trying to speak just about every […]