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What is up with the Starbucks Coffee Logo?

What exactly is that on the Starbucks logo? It looks like some fantasy femme we ought to be lusting after, but it is unclear what sort. Many people mistakenly believe...

Is Starbucks Coffee Named for Battlestar Galactica?

There are people who assume that Starbucks Coffee was named after the Lieutenant in Battlestar Galactica. There is apparently even a scene in a Starbucks in the revamped...

Every Old is New Again

Too many fervent masturbators have written academic treatises about the homoerotic undercurrents in the relationship between Richard Hatch’s Apollo and Dirk...

RIP Hunter S. Thompson

Science fiction fandom button makers everywhere would have made fewer sales had Hunter S. Thompson never written the immortal words, “When the going gets weird,...

Darth Vader vs. Apollo and Starbuck

Peeved I suppose at being outgrossed at the box office by Battlestar Galactica, George Lucas and the Star Wars folks had to sue Glen A. Larsen and the Battlestar...

Battlestar Galactica Used to Make More $ Than Star Wars

The original Battlestar Galactica had trouble deciding if it wanted to be a film or a television series. There are very real budget and story structure differences...

What is the connection between Flesh Gordon and Star Wars?

Both Flesh Gordon and Star Wars were inspired by Flash Gordon. Which was inspired by Buck Rogers. Flash Gordon was a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex...

Flesh Gordon Science Fiction Porn Hardcore Classic

No site even tangentially about science fiction porn would be complete without a mention of the hardcore classic Flesh Gordon. Supposedly, the original masters for the...

Keep Tom Savini Out of the Bedroom

Okay, you’ve celebrated Valentines Day and Lupercalia and now you need the opportunity to laugh about both Hallmark love holidays and fertility. You need look no...

Happy Lupercalia!

Today we celebrate Lupercalia. Party time! Bust out your togas and get ready for some drinking and S&M. The Lupercalia was an annual Roman festival held on February...

Happy Valentines Day!

I guess, after I much I went on about Star Wars this month, you all know what I’m doing today. The spelling of Valentines Day has always bothered me. VDay is an...

Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop is one of the best anime series ever translated into English. The mental chain of association, in case you were wondering, is the klepto gambler character...