Albuquerque Science Fiction Society Christmas meeting features Dessert Cook-Off and FRANZ KAFKA’S IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Plus, bonus holiday episode of TMI Theater.
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My favorite Christmas movie = DIE HARD. Yours? The imminent release of the movie Surrogates provides the latest corroboration of Victor’s Law of SF-Film Adaptation: The best way to get your work adapted into a science fiction or fantasy movie is to: Do a graphic novel. Surrogates falls into the former category. As for the latter, I also believe (call it a corollary) [...] Everyone on Earth seems to agree the Watchmen comic book series is the greatest thing since sex. I’m not so sure.
Who, indeed? Now with the movie coming out – to mixed reviews – the one consensus seems to be the unassailable perfection of the original. So let me be the heretic rebel here [...] This afternoon I went out the door around 3:30 to go meet Joe at Café Napoli to find snow falling from a sky that was almost exactly half clear. The sun was shining. Basically the whole northern part of the sky was clear. And down came the flakes. I’d be tempted to call it typical [...] I hope – how I hope – I truly hope the new Indiana Jones movie doesn’t stink as badly as the “first” – i.e. the new – Star Wars trilogy. Advance notice on the net is unkind. Of course, fanboys can be beyond hypercritical. You knew that, I’m guessing? On the other tentacle … it wasn’t as [...] So I had the German Bomber Channel on for electronic wallpaper a little while ago, and they were showing their Engineering an Empire show on Rome. And I was struck by a wonderful vision. (Thud.) The scene: a couple years in the future. I’m enrolled in a course at Syracuse University. And the tall, [...] (First in an undoubtedly unending series.) And, mirabile dictu, it doesn’t even involve guns! First, mea maxima culpa for going dark here for so long. (Nothing like tossing in gratuitous Latin phrases to make you look smarter than you are. And if anybody’s smarter than I am, it sure isn’t me!) Things got on top of [...] |
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