Category Archives: Literature

Good and Bad Robots, Watchmen and Television updates

March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants, Literature, Movies, TV

Good Robot News: Japan, defacto world leader in robotics has come out with a new model, Saya2. It is being field tested in classrooms in Japan as well as nursing homes. The robot is capable of 6 basic vocal and facial emotions, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness, but still requires a human interface […]

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Damn Good Authors You Have Never Heard Of. John Zakour

August 6th, 2008 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature

So, here’s the thing. It’s hard enough being a writer. Make that even more difficult today, what with the complete stratification of the arts. You know kids, I can remember when the Billboard Top 100 was just one list! NO SHIT! I’M NOT KIDDING! Now its Top Hip-Hop, Top AOR, my God, everything is so […]

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2008-Clarke and Laine

July 14th, 2008 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Sitely News, Websites

In December 2007, on the occasion of his 90th. Birthday, Arthur C Clarke sent a message to the world via You Tube. In it, he discussed what mankind could become over the next century and the foolishness we have perpetrated on one another during the past millennium.  In March, 2008, he passed away and those […]

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What Costs ¥240 Million and is sure to put a smile on Your Brides Face?

July 7th, 2008 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Websites

 So, for the man who has wished for anything and has unlimited resources, a Japanese company is offering the finest in New Bride accessories, the Zero-G Cosmic Consummation. An effort of Japanese firm First Advantage and American Rocketplane Global, Inc., this lovely wedding allows a Bride and Groom to have the most “interesting” of weddings… […]

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Television Rants and The Well Read Sci-Fi Geek!

April 7th, 2008 | Posted in BBC, Daily Rants, Literature, TV

I hate the ending of Torchwood..With a burning passion. I really wanna take the writers and hurt them. DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DAMN YOU ALL It wasn’t fair, it was totally unexpected and it pissed ME OFF. With all the talk of changes in the show for next season, god knows this was not the […]

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Arthur C. Clarke is dead, alas. Let’s all get together and kick some ass

March 19th, 2008 | Posted in Literature

The title is stolen from the sub title of a novel about Philip K. Dick, but I thought it fitting when I saw the news. In retrospect, I am kinda sick about yesterdays post. At 90 years of age, Mr. Clarke was a visionary from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Retaining a childlike sense […]

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Why Women hate Sarah Conner – The State of Women in Science Fiction Today

March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants, Literature, Movies, TV

 So, the other night I am watching the exciting 2 hour finale of the shortened season of Sarah Conner Chronicles (I am deeply disappointed by their idea of climax), when my wife turns to me and sez….”you know, I don’t much care for this show. It’s too noisy.” OK, she was tired and when I […]

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Media Newspeak or He, Who Smelt It, Dealt It.

February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, TV

 The Orwellian nightmare that began for us with the “Mission Accomplished” banner now asserts it’s evil snout into our little niche of the blogosphere. Television, as a main source of sustenance for us, is finding itself at a crossroads: accepted rules of engagement no longer apply, what made sense no longer does and here we […]

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An Open Letter To Stephen Gould and Michael Knight

February 18th, 2008 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Movies, TV

Dear Mr. Gould, I had read you novel, Jumper, years ago and loved Davie Rice and the challenges placed in his way and how he coped with them. The novel was a complex study of current politics and a single persons solution to it.. The CIA playing cops of the world and vigilante justice sci […]

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8 Things I Am Currently Hating

January 31st, 2008 | Posted in Daily Rants, Literature, Movies, TV

1. I hate that People/Reviewers/Geeks /Fans refer to “Genre” Movies/TV/Books/Comix/Graphic Novels. When did things get so upper crust that we had to draw hard line distinctions between us and everyone else? I am old enough to remember when rock and roll was rock and roll and not 173 different flavors fom Trance to Inde, to […]

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