For Dashiell Hammett fans— and who isn’t?— we have new clews to the possible origin of both the Maltese Falcon and the Continental Op. “Resting on the North entrance at Baltimore Street are two gold-gilded birds that could be mistaken for resting eagles, buty they’re not, instead, they’re falcons. Why, you may ask, is this […]

Sometimes I think I should just stop talking about me in this space. Because, y’know, even though I’m firmly convinced the universe is entirely about me, it seems graceless to keep pointing it out to people who, however worthy, are by the mere fact of exclusion not who the universe is about. But then, if […]

It’s Jack Williamson’s 100th birthday today. I quote his niece Betty: “In his honor, I suggest we all pause sometime today with a glass filled with the liquid of our choice (Jack would probably either have a gin and tonic or a tall buttermilk…) and drink a toast to Wonder’s Child. What an amazing century […]

So having finished This is Not a Game, and having finished— I think— the Big Mystery Project I Still Can’t Talk About, I sat down with relief and pleasure to view Kamikaze Girls (2004), which on one hand is a coming-of-age story set in Japan and on the other hand is about aliens, or at […]