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The 2005 Nebula Awards Weekend starts today. This year Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, will be inducted as a Grand Master. Until the awards are actually presented, it is semi-guarded information as to who has won for best novel, novella, novelette, short story, and script. The list of nominees alone [...]
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy opens today. I keep telling myself don’t panic. I keep telling myself that Fight Club was a brilliant adaptation of a book people thought could not be made into a movie. Sin City was a terrific adaptation of a book no one thought could be made into a movie. [...]
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My CFIDS tends to be worse in the summer time and this makes me more goth or at least more gloomy, so, as the long days of summer draw closer, let’s enjoy the Gothic Sluts free picture of the day every day. An excellent bookmark.
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Kerry Conran is a writer/director who came to Hollywood via an unconventional route. He was an avid fan of 1930′s science fiction serials. As an animation student at CalArts, he started thinking about using modern animation techniques to do a new take on some of the traditional serials. Over a period of four years, utilizing [...]
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The only wrinkle in the Sin City deal was that Frank Miller was to be given a co-director credit which Robert Rodriguez was fine with giving. The wrinkle part being that the Directors Guild blew a gasket and told Rodriguez he couldn’t do that. So, to his immense credit, Rodriguez kept his word to Miller [...]
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The Teenage Kix blog uses erudite language to describe teener porno to entertaining effect. Teenage Kix had this to say about Sexy Fandom, “Something else struck me about the geek/porn interface, the excellent blog Sexy Fandom with Molly Case, which is the guide to all places where sex and genre fandom interlap, such as vampiric [...]
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There is an interesting and I hope not apocryphal story about how Robert Rodriguez convinced comic book auteur Frank Miller to allow Sin City to be committed to the silver screen. Every few years, Hollywood goes on a rampage optioning comic books. Most are never made into movies and, those that are, are rarely made [...]
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The Hugo Awards are determined by the membership of each WorldCon, including both attending and supporting members. They are given to honor extraordinary works of science fiction which were published during the preceding year. Oddly enough, they are named after Hugo Gernsback who is largely forgotten by all but those most involved in fandom as [...]
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Last year, science fiction author Vernor Vinge won the Hugo award for his novella “The Cookie Monster” which was originally published by Analog Science Fiction & Fact. The magazine had a teaser for the story online at this link for some time and now has the more satisfying deal at this link in honor of [...]
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Blue Blood’s Amelia G wrote a humorously poignant ode to Cookie Monster for BlueBlood.net. She included some great barroom bet winner trivia and a surprisingly true expose of Sesame Street’s recent partnering with a health food company. For those of you who do not follow specialized pop culture trends with as much diligence as I [...]
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The Snark and Mayhem blog recently had this to say about Sexy Fandom, “Yes Virgina, somewhere, somehow, there is a fandom sex blog. I wish I was making this up. Although really, porn links aside, it’s a damn good blog.”
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I meant to mention something about the toothing hoax perpetrated by Galker’s Gizmodo last week, but I was feeling too irritable about the forthcoming Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. At any rate, bluetooth devices are able to detect other bluetooth devices within approximately a thirty foot radius. I believe this is primarily so that [...]
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