Joseph Mallozzi's Weblog

The books that made me love horror... What do you think? https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/hollywoods-extra-long-movies-spark-a-debate-is-it-time-for-an-intermission-042887f0 Must it really come to this?  "Gardner watches movies each week and doesn’t leave his seat. He prepares for long movies by adding more salt to his lunch, which he says helps him retain water. He doesn’t drink anything at the theater. “That’s…

The books that made me fall in love with fantasy...The books that made me fall in love with science fiction... The books that made me fall in love with fantasy... 23 seconds. That's the record for the quickest I've given up on a show. In this case, the pilot episode opens with a dog being…

As we head into November, we also head into the t.v. industry's slow season.  With Thanksgiving on deck and the Christmas season soon to follow, it's hard to get executives to focus, much less read your project.  More than likely, it ends up in a pile that they won't get around to until AFTER they…

https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1718657463119937874 Yes for me..although I'd have very low expectations going on. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1719010683876946232 Even if I knew who she was and was a fan, I'm afraid it's still no. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1719369417199387059 Not really a yakisoba fan, much less a convenience store version. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1719724795984507191 Apparently all the corn collects at the bottom.  Pass. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1720079973124559352 I mean, sure I'd…

Unforgotten (2015 - ) Season 1 London detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years. My thoughts: The two leads are terrific in this delightfully character-driven mystery series. 4/5 Line of Duty (2012-2021) Season 3 Sergeant Danny Waldron and his team shoot dead a criminal, but cracks soon appear in their…

It was a mini Stargate reunion of sorts last night as Robert C. Cooper, Alex Levine, Ivon Bartok and I assembled for a rare culinary journey - specifically, a pizza crawl that took us to four of Toronto's top pizzerias. The journey begins! First stop was Prince Street Pizza, the latest addition to the Toronto…

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Blazing through this Crime Binge at a rate of a season of day.  About to hit 46 shows.... The Woman in the Wall (2023) Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house with no idea who the dead woman is. She doubts herself, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts…

https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1718781244744314920 Roughly 700+ spaceships into my Test Your Spaceship IQ thread on twitter and, after some easy offerings in the opening rounds, we're getting into some far lesser known vessels at this point.  I had intended to just do 50 posts, then 100, and now I'm thinking of wrapping things up at 250+ which will…

Well, Sharky is turning into quite the momma's boy, crawling into Akemi's lap at every opportunity, following her around the place by the sound of her voice (and, failing that, sound of her footfalls), and crying up a storm when she leaves to take a shower or pops out to go shopping.  In other words,…

Choose the best and the worst from the following... https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1715780562596630651 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1716101297097585017 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1716475122289123426 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1716840959793643809 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1717207950253543494 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1717552201172656137 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1717941936428888137 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1718292659112919531 Yes: Chicken nugget onion ring No: Pepper-X