Health Plan

March 11, 2010

Republican plans for health care reform have finally been revealed!Hoyer-Larson Bill: All 45 million uninsured Americans would be guaranteed medical care, all of it provided by Dr. Tom Janicak of Houston, TXGriffith-Cantor Bill: Low-income families would be allowed to huddle outside hospital windows in the cold and look at wealthier families receiving care.[via Janice]

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Media Miscellany

March 11, 2010

Brief notes concerning images recently made visible on my television. Survivors. While I had a cold last week I watched several episodes of this British post-apocalypse series, seen here on BBC America. BBCA usually runs SF and/or fantasy on Saturday nights, and have so far managed to prove that the Brits can produce series as […]

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O You Lucky Brits!

March 8, 2010

Oh to be in England now that This Is Not a Game is there!Yes! The British paperback of TINAG is now available!

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Sekrit Formula

March 6, 2010

Now that Alice in Wonderland has entered general release— my modest opinion of the film is offered below— perhaps it’s time for this glimpse into the mind of the Master. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Famous For All the Wrong Reasons

March 5, 2010

Renowned atmospheric physicist Charles B. Moore passed away on Wednesday. Though his career was chock-a-block with scientific accomplishment, he is best known for something that didn’t actually happen.Let me explain.Dr. Moore was a pioneer in the use of large polyethylene balloons, or aerostats. On June 4, 1947, one of Dr. Moore’s Project Mogul aerostats crashed […]

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Count the Cliches!

March 5, 2010

It’s the adventures of Brewster Rockit, Space Guy! [via Janice]

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Pretty Pictures, Lots of Chases

March 3, 2010

I got a chance to see a sneak preview of Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and now I’m thinking about how franchises have got detached from the source of their inspiration.It certainly happened with Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey played a character who shared a name and an occupation with his progenitor, but little else. There were […]

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Reviews Too Late: Princess Tutu

March 1, 2010

Knowing my strange fascination with girly anime, Jane Lindskold told me I’d like this one. She was right.I liked Princess Tutu not only for itself, but for the fact that it constantly references Revolutionary Girl Utena, which— as we all know— is the Greatest TV Series of All Time. Tutu is a post-Utena artifact, the […]

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History Channel

March 1, 2010

What the hell happened to the History Channel? It’s all Pawn Stars, Tougher in Alaska, American Pickers, Ax Men . . . all reality TV! Where’s my freakin’ history?I guess it went to the same place as all the learning on the Learning Channel.

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Matters Quotidian

March 1, 2010

The Winter Olympics at least provided a pleasing distraction as I was preparing my taxes for the accountant. Hundreds of check stubs, hundreds of little receipts with cryptic scrawls on them. (What is “sprawk?” Is it deductible? Does it go on Schedule C?) And then I look up, and Canucks and Austrians and Chinese Communists […]

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