by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog
**************************************************************HERE BE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!***************************************************************************************** Saturday night I took myself off to the Cinepolis to see the new X-Men film rejoicing in the rather ominous title X-Men: Apocalypse. I’ve greatly enjoyed X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past. I’ve been a big James McAvoy fan and Fassbender is perfect as young Magneto so this wasn’t going to be a hardship....
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog
If only it were a delicious frothy drink. Or a fun game to be played at picnics. But it’s not. The Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit) was the secret police of East Germany. The organization that had neighbors spying on neighbors and citizens reporting each other. It’s a common creation of authoritarian states. Stalin had the NKVD. Nazi Germany had the Gestapo. I wonder what President Trump will call his secret police? Here are a couple of quotes from the presumptive...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
I’m still trying to process yesterday’s horror. What I can’t understand is the retreat to the political corners and simplistic binary choice — it’s either guns or it’s terrorism. As the President pointed out this morning in his statement from the Oval Office — it can be both. It is both. In fact it’s a three dimensional mess because it’s also blatant homophobia. Yes, this gunman had been self-radicalized. Yes it was ridiculously easy for...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog
When I was five or six grownups asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a jockey. They laughed at me and told me “girls can’t be jockeys”. When I was ten grownups asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said an astronaut. They laughed and me and said, “girls can’t be astronauts”. When I was thirteen or fourteen grownups asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said President of the United States. They laughed at me and said,...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Apr 23, 2016 | Blog
I guess my blog is viewed by more people then I realize because my lyrical post about The Magicians landed me an interview/discussion about the show for Wired. Here’s the link where you can listen in while David Barr Kirtley interviews Andrew Liptak and me about the show. Wired Geeks Guide The Magicians
by Melinda Snodgrass | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog
I generally don’t get political here. I talk about movies and games and books, writing, riding, etc. But as this long (too long) campaign season winds toward its conclusion I have to speak up, and plead with Democrats and Independents and progressives to think very hard about wounded feelings. I have repeated stated that I am team blue. I will vote for which ever candidate wins the nomination. For the record I will vote for Secretary Clinton in the New Mexico primary, but if Senator...
