124 Writerly Posts Tagged culture

▼
May 20, 25 Everyone is writing a book
May 10, 25 Delusional militia menaces weather scientists
Jul 25, 21 On the “legitimacy” of vaccine hesitancy
Jul 16, 21 Murderbot Diaries not quite winning me over
Jul 15, 21 Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms
Jul 7, 21 The Tomorrow War is an extremely realistic film
Jun 25, 21 Ratings reversal
Jun 25, 21 Not so foreign
Jun 1, 21 Project Hail Mary ★★★★☆
May 29, 21 Gaga sings Smelly Cat
May 29, 21 Under the Skin ★★★☆☆
May 27, 21 Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆
May 24, 21 The Chicks vs. The Iraq War
May 22, 21 Too Like the Lightning ★☆☆☆☆
May 8, 21 Made for Love ★★★★☆
May 5, 21 Relativistic star systems
Apr 15, 21 Stephen King’s “The Tan”
Dec 13, 20 You’re welcome
Aug 17, 20 Keep waiting for Waiting for the Barbarians
May 31, 20 Remembering my outrage
May 15, 20 “The End” — Star Wars ends with a whimper
May 30, 19 Game of Thrones: Flawed but still amazing
Oct 17, 18 Kids these days
Oct 9, 18 A Deepness in the Sky
Jul 12, 18 First-rate sci-fi
Jun 23, 18 Nature at it’s weirdest and creepiest
Jun 8, 18 Comedic constipation and diarrhea
Apr 26, 18 Actually “so bad it’s good”
Nov 3, 17 Westworld
Sep 15, 17 Toby Ziegler on scuba diving
Jul 5, 17 Weird, cool Queen concert follow-up item: the crinoline thing
Jul 3, 17 Another classic band on tour: Queen this time!
Jun 3, 17 Midnight Oil again
Nov 14, 16 Done with Trek
Oct 16, 15 Actually maybe aliens at work: the plausibility of stellar-scale alien engineering
Oct 9, 15 The Martian ★★★★★
Aug 28, 15 Getting the Borderlands vibe right
Jun 22, 15 A breakdown of trust in science
May 19, 15 Game of Thrones stumbles (for the first time in ages)
May 7, 15 The inventor of malls
May 3, 15 Few really ask
Feb 27, 15 Goodbye, Spock
Feb 18, 15 Where the people are
Sep 20, 14 Godzilla (2014) ★☆☆☆☆
Sep 20, 14 Honesty prevails
Sep 11, 14 Honest Trailer Proof
Aug 31, 14 Outlander: so far, so good
Jul 7, 14 The Sarantine Mosaic ★★★★☆
Jun 14, 14 Patrick Stewart supports dying with dignity
May 17, 14 Giger is dead
Apr 19, 14 Run like it’s 911
Apr 13, 14 Sticker shock
Apr 1, 14 From the Dept of No Fucking Shit
Mar 22, 14 Grammar matters
Mar 22, 14 Blindness ★★★☆☆
Mar 22, 14 Riddick-ulous again ★★★☆☆
Feb 17, 14 Most Embarrassing D&D Character Classes
Feb 14, 14 Ender’s Game ★★☆☆☆
Feb 11, 14 No more dreams, please
Oct 24, 13 Pseudo-science is all grown up
Oct 8, 13 “Danger Park”?
Oct 1, 13 Fiction & Science Fiction in Ancient Rome
Sep 29, 13 No comment
Sep 29, 13 Commenting is not a civil right
Sep 28, 13 Gamer ★★☆☆☆ Not much fun
Sep 25, 13 Marsbound etc ★☆☆☆☆
Aug 29, 13 Elysium ★★☆☆☆ Shallow & noisy
Aug 19, 13 “I could steal that bike for you.”
Aug 19, 13 Centurion & The Eagle ★★★☆☆ A pair of 2011 films about the 9th Legion
Aug 14, 13 Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, and when to worry about back pain
Jul 28, 13 So unrealistic
Jun 24, 13 Oz the Great & Powerful ★☆☆☆☆
May 17, 13 Justice is tricky
Apr 17, 13 Under Heaven
Feb 15, 13 The Epic Stinging Stump Coincidence
Feb 9, 13 Raining face huggers
Dec 17, 12 Snow White and the Huntsman: under-rated high fantasy ★★★★☆
Nov 3, 12 White Wedding, Unplugged by Ian Kelly
Sep 25, 12 Meeting a troll
Sep 11, 12 “Typing was women’s work.”
Aug 6, 12 Insecure and unhappy childhoods
Jul 30, 12 An albino, a mosquito
Jul 27, 12 More Prometheus mockery, more!
Jul 23, 12 Attack the Block ★★★☆☆ Maybe a little over-rated, but fresh and fun
Jul 14, 12 Prometheus ★☆☆☆☆ The Alien franchise sinks even lower still
Jul 11, 12 Scene on Vancouver’s seawall
Jun 27, 12 And who the hell TALKS on their phones anymore anyway?
Jun 16, 12 Some people think Prometheus is a great film
Jun 13, 12 Getting “The Future” Right
Jun 11, 12 A wonderful Prometheus snark-a-thon
Jun 6, 12 The knowledge gap
May 24, 12 It is known
Apr 25, 12 DRM-free SF&F
Mar 12, 12 Ponyo ★★★☆☆ Meh
Mar 4, 12 Game of Thrones ★★★★☆
Feb 15, 12 Conan the Barbarian ★★☆☆☆Tedious!
Dec 26, 11 Being a geek
Dec 12, 11 Cargo review ★☆☆☆☆ Where’s the “smart,” exactly?
Sep 16, 11 The Ghost Brigades Review
Sep 4, 11 Troll Hunter micro-review
Sep 4, 11 Returning to science fiction after a 15-year pause
Jul 3, 11 Micro Review: Old Man’s War is pulpy fun from a fine writer
Jun 25, 11 Super 8 is about itself
Jun 25, 11 Now that’s how you make a villain! How X-Men First Class got it right (and Lucas got it wrong)
Apr 22, 11 Imagine better haircuts
Mar 14, 11 Ebert rips Battle: LA a new one
Mar 13, 11 Monsters Mini-Review ★★★★☆ Moody and intriguing, but a bit boring
Jan 26, 11 Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
Jan 25, 11 Reservoir Dogs in 60 Seconds
Jan 2, 11 Science Fiction Fans: Lower Your Standards!
Dec 24, 10 In praise of the sci-fi corridor
Dec 3, 10 Happiness is …
Nov 23, 10 Joss Whedon on the Buffy reboot
Nov 16, 10 The Beatles on iTunes? Meh
Nov 5, 10 Predators ★☆☆☆☆ A weak homage
Oct 25, 10 Splice ★☆☆☆☆ Not-in-a-good-way creepy
Oct 11, 10 The Earth belonged to the Martians
Oct 9, 10 Radiolab Does War of the Worlds
Oct 4, 10 Dead kids, gay kids
Oct 3, 10 Book review (and my first ebook): An Oblique Approach, by David Drake & Eric Flint
Sep 20, 10 I never had that
Sep 12, 10 I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.