Controlling the Transmissions - Year Twenty-One

I had been reading Shada , the Doctor Who story from 1979 that got canceled due to a production stoppage at the BBC. Douglas Adams, wh...

Shada was an untransmitted tale of the original Doctor Who series. It was a six-part serial scheduled to be the final story of season ...

Last year, everyone’s favorite British drama, Downton Abbey was submitted in the miniseries category for the 2011 Emmy’s. It was a s...

Massive electrical highstorms repeatedly scour the world. Kingdoms battle on the Shattered Plains for glory, power, and the heart gems o...

Two months from today, I turn 50. I have mixed feelings about this. Since Borders folded 10 months ago, I've felt rather stupid,...

I guess, in some ways, the not having a job thingy worked out for my getting caught up on reading. As June ends, with 6 months of 2012 gone...

In John Scalzi’s Agent to the Stars we get fast paced, very humorous look at first contact between humans and aliens, the Yherajk (a ...

What I like about John Irving is what makes me want to read more than watch TV or see movies. He’s a very literate author, with metaph...

So, I finished the second book in this series, and mostly, I have the same issues. Its way over long -and the each novel in the cu...

Below is a post I did in 2010, about my moms third husband, and what he means, at least to me: While he’s been married to my Mom (thi...

This film opened on June 4, the same as Star Trek II. It's amazing to think that this one, the Star Trek film and E.T. opened within two...

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan celebrated its 30 anniversary this June. It debuted on June 4th, and in many ways, saved the Star Trek franc...

 While this clip is the "revised" version, it still holds a lot of emotional punch. When the film is released on Blu-Ray in Octobe...

There came a point, about midway through Prometheus , where I realized why director Ridley Scott kept saying the film shared some the ...

It’s been 20 years since Diana Gabaldon began her romance/historical/fantasy/science fiction series about one Claire Randall, 20 th C...

This is Brian Lam, a close friend of mine, who is looking to expand his musical career. While he's produced a CD, MY EMBRACE, and had...