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6 Things You Don’t Remember About The Real Ghostbusters Cartoon
We all love Ghostbusters and sometimes Ghostbusters 2, but what about the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters? What the hell was that thing? It’s populated by Ghostbusters who don’t look like themselves,...
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Morning Roundup: Instructions for Eating a Triceratops
Over on Nature.com, there’s a great article from Matt Kaplan which details how a Tyrannosaurus could actually consume something as bony and formidable as a Triceratops. Is it useful information? Well,...
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Brian K. Vaughan, Jonathan Hickman, and Grant Morrison Teach You How To Make...
It’s not often you get to sit down in a room with three of the biggest names in the comic book industry and hear them talk about how to write. At New York Comic Con earlier this month, a giant room...
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Beetlejuice: A Ghostly, Gothed-Out 80s Fairy Tale for the Ages
I’ve been rewatching Beetlejuice, a movie I’ve been madly in love with since I was 9 years old, and trying to figure out what makes it work as well it does. I think to understand Beetlejuice, and why...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Return as Conan the Barbarian
Deadline is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to return to his role as Conan the Barbarian in new movie The Legend of Conan, debuting in summer 2014, a time that surely will be fondly...
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“Our Biggest Challenge” New Symphony of Science
Posted recently, the sixteenth installment of the Symphony of Science project is “Our Biggest Challenge,” a call-to-action about climate change featuring the vocals of Bill Nye, David Attenborough,...
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Homage to Horror: A Discussion of James Herbert
There was a time when one writer more than any other seemed to capture the darker side of the imaginations of a generation of young male readers, and on a vast scale too. A writer that dealt with the...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Reaper’s Gale, Chapter Twenty-Four (Part Two)
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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You Only Pinch Twice: James Bond Burlesque
In the past decade or so, New York City and other cultural meccas have been overrun with the highly-self aware, sometime sexy, sometimes ironic, revivals of burlesque shows. The va-va-voom,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Part 6
Welcome to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 6 of A Storm of...
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Wide Open (Excerpt)
Here is an excerpt from Wide Open by Deborah Coates, one more ghostly tale to usher in Halloween and bring Ghost Week to a close...When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “Ship in a Bottle”
“Ship in a Bottle”Written by Rene EchevarriaDirected by Alexander SingerSeason 6, Episode 11Production episode 40276-238Original air date: January 26, 1993Stardate: 46424.1Captain’s Log: Data and La...
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Matt Smith Would Wear Tom Baker’s Scarf If He Could: Highlights from the...
Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith and Doctor Who executive producer Caroline Skinner held court today at London Comic Con, taking loads of questions from the internet and the audience about......
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Monsters Under the Bed: Horror Stories for Children
For children, Halloween means plastic spiders, child-sized witches hats, and orange colored candy lurking around the corner of just about every store. Soon they’ll be gone (costumes packed away and...
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Gene Wolfe’s Peace Will Leave You Anything But Peaceful
Read Peace, by Gene Wolfe.If that sentence is enough to convince you, stop reading now and go pick it up. You’ll be richly rewarded. If not, let me say this: Peace is a novel that will sneak up behind...
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Something Else Like... Introduction
When you really like a writer, and you’ve read everything they’ve written, naturally you want more. You have to wait until they write more, and at worst that’s never going to happen. So you ask for...
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Something Else Like... Heinlein
Heinlein was part of the Campbellian revolution that transformed science fiction, and love him or hate him he was a towering figure from the late thirties until his death in the late eighties. He was a...
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Dybbuk or Demon: Knowing Your Jewish Ghosts and Ghouls
Every year, horror fans are treated to a smattering of books and films that attempt to innovate the genre. Maybe they find a new way to repackage slasher films, like Joss Whedon did in Cabin in the...
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Batman: The Animated Series Rewatch: “Two Face: Part 1 & 2”
“Two Face: Part 1”Story by Alan BurnettTeleplay by Randy RogelDirected by Kevin AltieriMusic by Shirley WalkerAnimation Services by Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., LTD.Episode #010Original Airdate - September...
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David Hair and the Half-Blood Heir: Mage’s Blood
With the end of The Wheel of Time coming soon, book two of The Stormlight Archive barely begun, and who knows how long to go before we see hide or hair of what’s next from Messrs. Martin and...
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