Due to the expense and time for traveling, I prefer getting together with my family during Christmas time, leaving me to navigate Thanksgiving on my own. I'm tired of buying thanksgiving dinner, but I also don't want to make so much food that it will just go to waste. Is there a good combination of…

In my theory, that wasn't Kristen Stewart's body, she was actually inside of Joan Jett like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap. We'll see how she does in On the Road, though.

I feel like Kristen Stewart always plays the same character. She had the same range in Snow White as she did in The Cake Eaters as she did in Twilight. Since this is io9, my theory is now that all Kristen Stewart movies take place in the same universe, just at different points in history.

The bit about police presence and nice windows doesn't go far enough. One of the major changes going into the 1990s was the concept of police *involvement*. More cops in the community. When cops are in their cars, the windows stay rolled down, encouraging people to approach and engage them. When cops are walking a…

An easy trick I've used to make third person omniscient work better (from a 'comedy' perspective anyway), is to write only dialogue on the first draft. Sort of like some artists will frame out a drawing by sketching the frame of a scene first. With most of my writing, dialogue ends up being the major framework of…

It's not so much the power level as the humanity behind the power. Thor was turned into a human to get him down to the relatable plane of characters, then given his powers back. Loki, even though he's a god, was shown as a strange mishmash of powerful and weak, but most of his shows of power were rife with extended…

DC is going to have a hard time with this no matter what. The Marvel pantheon is anchored by heroes that are almost woefully human and who largely exist locally, not universally. Tony Stark is a drunk, Thor's very origin as a Marvel hero involves his being forced to become human, Spider-man is just a kid, the nature…

Got my 360 on launch day in one of those overpriced bundles. It still works. Everything is original, even the crummily small hard drive that's been full since about a year after I got it. I've considered buying one of those new-fangled ones with hard drives capable of storing more than a smattering of LIVE games…

Not sure the timeline really adds up for Otis to have been able to wrangle Sophia. Carl was shot within days of Sophia disappearing (two days? three tops?), at least from the piss poor way the show tracks time. Darryl found evidence that she was okay (presumably as there was no blood in that pantry he found her…

This seems oddly timely. Tranströmer was just awarded the Nobel lit prize - here's one of his more touching poems:

Don't really think you can say much of anything without a head, Ned. You're welcome to sit there and quietly bleed in anticipation, though.

Damn, those were better than mine. Oh well, at least I can still break the news that Michael Ironside will actually be playing Cable.

The new director candidate for the Wolverine movie is actually the Coen brothers, not Hooper. Their graphic depictions of the parallels between good and evil will play well to Hugh Jackman's snarling every-man (mutant) and the shadowy nature of The Hand.

I've always felt that we don't give ancient cultures enough credit for their navigation and transportation prowess. If one culture managed to make it to the Americas and live there for X number of years without further expansion, the odds of finding that evidence are somewhere between slim and none. If three…

Terrified? My testicles just climbed back up into my torso and are currently huddled together in a dark corner having a good cry. As melodramatic as that may sound, this really looks like a hubris movie that leads to studio meddling/overprotection on the big property (Superman).

Wasn't FIOS the first cable group to claim they were doing this? I could have sworn they said they were going to put out an iPad app in early 2011, but I haven't heard anything about it since last summer. I think they claimed all channels would be available (which I guess is part of the hold up).

Finally, a way to recover all of the information in my head that's been overwritten by Saturday morning cartoon theme songs.

This connects to the problem of constant cross-overs. Cross-overs make money. Self-reference is required to cross-over. Therefore, in gorilla business logic self-reference is where the money is.

The difficulty inherent in writing dystopian fiction for adults is characterization of key roles that the readers will relate to. I think that's why teenagers have dystopian fiction and adults have apocalypse fiction - more often than not the main characters in each will reflect their readership solely by plot…

All of these points lead to an incredibly ridiculous series of one-up-manship, not only between companies or writers, but within a given company.