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The Anachronist
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(Reads)

"Keep hitting yourself! Keep hitting yourself… HNNNNGGG!"

(Kirk exits, hands The Anachronist a hundred.)

(Lt. Barclay exits Holodeck, hands The Anachronist a fiver.)

Do… do you have pictures of these slugs?

Riker? I just met 'er! But… OK. (Unzips.)

Shit - I only have a third of those.

Especially if the aliens I'm… "coexisting" with are hot.

The thing I don't get about this is… Hollywood really just created a costume and with some acting and CGI and stuff made it LOOK like a suit of high-tech battle armor, right? So why does the Army expect them to be able to make it an actual thing?

"The problem with Star Trek, though, is that it’s super boring. Flying through space and learning about how to coexist with alien creatures? The world has had enough of that. "

Oh, it wasn't for last weekend - at some vague unspecified time in the future (though DragonCon would probably not prove conducive.)

(Breathy) Aw, yeah… tell me more…

The Taternet.

ComiCon EXCLUSIVE you say? That only generates a roil of jealous bile in me.

Oh crap - I thought I was paying my student loans!!!

Are you Atlanta-based, Jimmy James? Over at the Tolerability Index forum, I tried trolling for an Atlanta AV Club meetup. Interested?

Those are all primo chicken names.

The Anachronist's Girlfriend and I finished up "Doctor Who: The Ark" (part of my fitful mission of watching the TV series in transmission order) and listened to "Doctor Who: Embrace the Darkness" on a long drive to and from her family reunion.

"FIND IT, MR. FIBULI… or I'll have your bones bleached."

Isn't "Orphan Black" filmed/set there too?