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TalkCast 99 – SteamPunks & Mystics

September 11th, 2011 | Posted in Podcast

Nike Air Mags! Doc Brown pimps an Argentinean Electronics chain. MTV eyes Locke and Key. ABC grabs the pitch for The Last Resort. Joel Courtney (Super 8 ) in the new supernatural thriller The Healer. Our first guest segment is with Steve Perry and Crystal Washington of The Southcoast Paranormal & Psychic Faire, Sept. 25th, […]

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Fiction Friday – No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber

September 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Fiction Friday

Chess Expert, Fencer, Playwright, Actor and perhaps one of the preeminent Horror/Fantasy Writers in America; that was Fritz Leiber. We spent an hour talking with one of his greatest fans, Harlan Ellison about his works, in which Ellison spoke in nothing but incandescently glowing terms, and rightfully so. Oft forgotten by sparkly vampire lovers, Fritz […]

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Fiction Friday – The Street That Wasn’t There

August 26th, 2011 | Posted in Fiction Friday

Who the hell is Carl Richard Jacobi? In short, he was one of a host prolific of the pulp horror writers from the 30’s and 40’s and yet most of his work has largely been forgotten or pushed aside for the sparkly vampire nonsense that permeates current fiction. He wrote literally hundreds of short stories […]

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Synchronicity is a Bitch

August 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, TV

How does one explain the current state of programming among the television networks? Is it an issue with current quality of programming? Yes. Is it an issue with pandering to a sub-genre they know little about? Yes. Is it money hunger and pandering to the lowest common denominator? Of course, but I am coming to […]

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Fiction Friday – Philip K Dick

August 19th, 2011 | Posted in Fiction Friday

Philip K. Dick was known as a dystopian writer. Born in 1928, his life was as dystopian as his stories. Many of his finest works have been converted to movies, among them Bladerunner and Minority Report. What most people don’t know is that he wrote many short stories.  His writing style in these short stories […]

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Movies I Wish You Had Seen – Earth Girls Are Easy

August 19th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

It’s a hot Saturday night and you are in the mood for mindless entertainment. You could  go for a Jim Carey movie. You could go for one of the early Geena Davis/Jeff Goldblum  rom-coms. A Wayans Brothers slapstick might fill the bill. What the hell,mix all of the above with musical number or two and […]

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Fiction Friday – Edgar Rice Burroughs

August 12th, 2011 | Posted in Fiction Friday

  With the upcoming John Carter of Mars movie, I have been hearkening back to my formative days of voraciously devouring sci fi when I was a whelp. I recall going to a used bookstore in Manhattan with my father and uncle and having them both tell me all about Barsoom, Pellucidar, The Land That […]

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Fiction Friday – Walter Tevis: The Big Bounce

August 5th, 2011 | Posted in Fiction Friday

  If you know about Walter Tevis, it may be from The Man Who Fell to Earth. To be honest, I wouldn’t have even have known that if I hadn’t seen the movie, which is brilliantly flawed. This movie was my introduction to Tevis and the dazzling mind that produced some wonderful science fiction. A man […]

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Fiction Friday – Poe, Edgar Allan

July 29th, 2011 | Posted in Fiction Friday

What can you say about Edgar Allan Poe? You might say he is the Grandmaster of Horror. You could posit that he is responsible for more nightmares than any other author. You may state that he is a tragic figure in literary history with a legacy of morbid curiosity that has never been seen since. […]

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Movies I Wish You Had Seen – Silent Running

July 28th, 2011 | Posted in Daily Rants, Movies

The earth is overpopulated. Vast ecologies are being decimated by the influx of humans. How can we save earth? What must we do? Thus begins the parable of Freeman Lowell, space ecologist. Silent Running (1972) is a diatribe against the human condition, the lack of political will and the ultimate one man can make a […]

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