Happy Mothers’ Day! If I were more on the ball, today’s blog entry would be about my mom and my grandmothers and what wonderful women they are(/were). But I’m not, so it’s not. Instead, I decided to list some of my favourite games. Now, the trouble with most games is…
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds – William Shakespeare So about two years after my cousin Katie recommended it to me, I finally picked up a copy of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife.…
What the subject line says. (Except maybe for the “revenge” part.)
At the risk of revealing the depths of my current television obsession, let me just say that although this blog entry starts with an example from House, it’s not *about* House. My favourite-and-least-favourite character on House is Cuddy. The “least favourite” is because she’s been undergoing quite the character assassination…
You have a choice: somehow, you have been made omnipotent and put in charge of all the newborn children in the world. If you want, you can change their personalities so that they will never, ever do anything you consider to be wrong, but they’ll be otherwise normal in every…
Another reaction to another collection of Internet Arguments (TM). Again, you’d think I do nothing but tool around the Internet (OK, you’d be right), but I’ve come across a bunch of forum threads for various TV shows/books/movies/etc. that all go into the same basic argument: POSTER 1: This work of…
TV is a strange medium. I forget how strange until I suddenly get caught up in a TV show again (yes, it’s House M. D. Why? I don’t know. I still don’t like any of the characters, I still get frustrated by the various cliches/thematic holes, and I still know…
But first, two things to look forward to: Diana Wynne Jones has a new book coming out this year: Enchanted Glass. About what? I don’t know, but I’ll buy it and read it and pat it and love it and call it George! Second… uh, well, Andrew Lloyd Webber is…
(In my defense, there’s no un-sucky title for a review of Watchmen. 10 points for a bad pun, 20 for a reference to quis custodiet ipsos custodies, 50 if you get both.) So. If you have even browsed this blog in the past, or talked to me once or twice…
Actual ramblings this week. You’ve been warned. You know the “magician” episode of any show that claims it deals with science vs. superstition? The one where the main characters for whatever reason encounter a professional magician? And somehow, the character who’s always right (can be either Reason or Faith, depending…