She instructed me to: "Walk across the room on the heels of your feet." I obliged, tottering along in Chaplainesque pantomime. "Now back the other way on the tips of your toes." And, suddenly, I was a ballerina, capering back the way I came. "Bend over sideways as far as you can go. Good. Now…
September 21, 2013: Now what?! Stargate: Atlantis! The Remnants Art Department Package!
Seriously. No sooner do I recover from my pulled solar plexus (see previous issues, ed.) than I am now battling a lower back "thing". Specifically, a lower right hip ache that flares up whenever I shift my weight a certain way - or not. I don't remember doing anything that could have caused it -…
September 17, 2013: Since you asked – reading/watching!
Over on the right sidebar of this blog, I keep an running update on what I've watching and reading, or watched and read. Lately, some readers have asked how I've enjoyed a few of the titles that grace those respective lists...READ/WATCHED:Friday, by Robert HeinleinStrong mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, I really…
September 16, 2013: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews The Crow!
Full disklosure: Monster not a fan of mimes. It be a phobia me have (like heights, tight places, and Celine Dion) dat go all de way back to monster's childhood. Me often try to figure out why dis be, and always come up wit tree possible reasons: 1. Mimes be second-cousins of clowns who, everyone…
September 12, 2013: Whither Stargate?
With the recent news that Roland Emmerich would like to make a second, big screen, Stargate movie, questions surrounding the future of the franchise have again started popping up throughout fandom. It's been three years since Stargate: Universe was cancelled and fans want to know: What's next? Whither Stargate? Well in my humble and somewhat…
September 5, 2013: Underappreciated comic book characters who need their own t.v. shows!
ANIMAL MAN He can soar like an eagle, swim like a shark, run like leopard, and eat like a pug! Awesome! BOOSTER GOLD A hero who comes from the future, not in search of bad guys, but personal fame and fortune. Delightfully anti-heroic. DEADMAN The ghost of a murder victim is permitted to temporarily inhabit…
August 26, 2013: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Dr. Strange (1978)!
Dr. Strange? More like Dr. Creep! Apparently, dis guy not familiar wit de Hypocritical Oath, but he all sorts of familiar wit "doctor-patient confidentiality"...if you know what me mean. No? Well, let monster put it dis way. When he around de ladies at work, he like Cookie Monster at a bake sale. Or Grover at…
August 23, 2013: News of note!
On the strength of his brilliant performance in Daredevil, Ben Affleck has been cast as the not-so-Dark Knight in upcoming Batman/Superman movie. I know, I know. He's an Academy Award winner! True, but I feel the need to point out that it was for directing, not acting. Is this another sign of the disconnect between…
August 22, 2013: Recent Recommended Reads!
Recommended reads: A Terror by Jeffrey Ford The latest release by author Jeffrey Ford is a nightmarish novelette that offers a supernaturally speculative take on the inspiration for one of Emily Dickinson's most famous poems, "Because I could not stop for Death". Emily Dickinson, awakens to an empty house, her parents and sister inexplicably gone. She…
July 21, 2013: Hey, you know what would make a great television series?! And some pointed comments on the sad state of filmdom by today’s guest bloggers!
Hey, you know what would make a great television series? Do tell! But here are the parameters: 1) It should be something in the scifi or fantasy genre. In the case of the latter, ONLY if it is completely different from Game of Thrones (as it would invite the inevitable unflattering comparisons). 2) It must…
August 10, 2013: On milkshakes and space!
Look at them all, all smiles, pretending like they all get along. From left to right: my former nemesis Ashleigh, Birthday Boy Carl "Ghost Writer" Binder, my gal Akemi, Ivon, Kerry (with a Y), and Lawren. The other night, we met up for dinner at Stackhouse Burger (slow service, okay burgers, way too much bun…
August 6, 2013: Lou Anders makes the leap! The Dark Knight Sinks! Mailbag!
Congrats to our friend, Lou Anders, who is poised to make the leap from professional editor to professional author next year with the release of his first novel Thrones and Bones: Frostborn, "a fantasy inspired by Norse folklore involving a dead Viking sea captain, wyverns, and a 1,200-year-old dragon." The release date is August of 2014,…
August 5, 2013: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews The Dark Knight Rises!
Dis movie remind monster of Snuffleupagus after last year's Oktoberfest: a big, bloated, confused mess dat hang around way too long after party end.Movie picks up 8 years after last one. Harvey Dent be dead and Gotham be organized crime free. Batman be gone and Bruce Wayne now a bitter whiner who walk around wit…
July 29, 2013: Our Movie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Stargate!
Monster not familiar wit Stargate series starring MacGyver and RuPaul so left somewhat confused by dis film dat be reminiscent of de old Crosby and Hope road movies - but wit more killing and androgyny. Movie open in distant past where revival of de musical Hair get awaken while sleeping on a giant soundstage. Wind…
July 27, 2013: Books! Dogs! And foodtrucks!
My latest book haul. As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, my days of shopping at the local Indigo/Chapters mega-chain are a thing of the past. Instead, I'm supporting the smaller, independent bookstores - in this instant, White Dwarf Books (WHITE DWARF BOOKS - Dead Write Books) over on 10th Avenue. It's your one stop shop…