The Pay Off — Don’t Biff It
I've talked about this in the context of Mass Effect 3 and the ultimate massive failure of what should have been the greatest video game to date, but I have to bring it up again. I don't tend to review books because if I've read a book to the end it means I liked it,...
So Disgusted
Now Boner... excuse me Boehner and the Republicans are trying to deal with the deficit by gutting the Affordable Care Act. That legislation will reduce health care costs, you morons. I so don't think throwing some 40 million people off health care is a...
A Lonely Profession…Or Is It?
On Saturday I went out to dinner with some fellow writers, and their various spice, and as I drove home I was hit with an intense melancholy because the evening was over, and there was no-more-party. Most of the time I don't notice that I'm alone because I have this...
This is the Bright New Star?
So, the Republicans are focusing on their next crop of "stars" Marco Rubio seems to be leading the pack -- "hey, look, America. He's brown!" Of course his platform is identical to the old Republican platform so nothing has changed other then...
Skyfall
I loved SKYFALL. There were a lot of reasons, but I’ll start with the top one -- Daniel Craig. I think he’s probably the best actor to ever play the role, and of course I have a mad crush on him because he is totally hot. We also...
The Appeal of a Diarist
I've been reading an enjoying the C.J. Cherryh FOREIGNER series, though I must say the last few books haven't had a traditional structure of acts and a climax. The story just sort of unspools, and then she stops when there's enough for a book, and the next book...
Long, Strange Road
Driving back to the condo after finishing my interview with William Shatner I had this moment of dislocation and disbelief. I remembered being the little girl who first watched the Enterprise sail across my TV screen back in the nineteen sixties. For the...
Baby Time
I've only attended two baby showers in my entire life. In my circle of friends we are a curiously childless lot. Only Steve Gould and Laura Mixon, and Daniel and Kat Abraham have children. All the rest of us skipped that mile post in a life....
Remarkable
This is an except from a letter that George Romney wrote to Barry Goldwater back in 1964 warning against the emerging "southern strategy" and other moves on the part of the GOP. This is just uncanny. One wonders what the father would make of his truth challenged...
Looper
It's taken me a long time to organize my thoughts about this film. I sort of liked it. I also found it dark and disturbing. I thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt's channeling of Bruce Willis facial expressions and physicality was amazing. Over on...
