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Things My Husband and I Have Argued About While Watching Firefly
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»
You wanna talk disasters? Easy, where Stephanie Plum is concerned. A more disaster-prone woman never walked the earth. Okay, granted, she is a bounty hunter, and blown-up cars are part of the gig (though hers do seem to explode a good deal more than those of other law-enforcement types...like, in … read more»
Could there be a more bizarre choice for director of Camp Half-Blood than Dionysus?
Rick Riordan has a gift for playing with the Greek myths. He delights in taking the gods and their stories and giving them just enough of a twist to make them completely believable in our world while … read more»
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.
I mean, haven’t they noticed?
I keep shaking my head and wondering … read more»
I've decided to move to Stars Hollow. I’ve had enough of New York City with all its hubbub and rigmarole. Who needs fifty-nine dollar, truffle-topped, wagyu beef burgers? Who wants to wait six months for a table at one of Mario Battali’s forty-seven new Italian restaurants? I certainly never need … read more»
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