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Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal

Things My Husband and I Have Argued About While Watching Firefly

by Lani Diane Richon Firefly/Serenity

Before we get started, there’s something you need to know about my husband and me: We’re geeks.

And I’m not talking the kind of casual geek that’s popular nowadays, the person who enjoys the Lord of the Rings trilogy and plays the occasional hand of online spades. My husband and me?

We’re geeks.

My area of geekspertise is television. I did my undergrad in television, radio, and film back when ¾” tapes the size of your typical VW were the height of the new technology, and I started taping shows religiously about a week after the VCR was invented. Somewhere in my mother’s basement are piles of VHS tapes containing most of the episodes of Moonlighting, Northern Exposure, and The X-Files. When The X-Files launched a trend by releasing entire seasons on DVD, the skies of my world broke open with a thousand angels singing the hallelujah chorus.

My husband, he’s a fantasy game … read more»

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Among its many other virtues, Battlestar Galactica is warming up to be the latest evidence that the Christian Right in the United States, for all its political power, is actually too friggin’ dim to pour piss out of a boot.

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