I don’t know about the claims against her, she also has some pretty high level supporters, but it does seem people enjoy hating on her...and when they do it’s hard to tell if they are hating on her because they feel she is not practicing what she preaches or if they are racist misogynists who are too happy to join in…

“...despite knocking out a few of the charges against her”

my character being picked apart by people who don’t know me and disrespecting my name. I didn’t sign up for this shit

I’m not really a science-fiction reader, but I’ve read a few of the culture novels, and I think that one of their attractions is that they’re just not made for the screen at all. They have an action sequence every now and then, but Banks seems to grasp that most technological utopias would be kind of boring: they’re…

Could be the actual cost. I was looking into seeing Stevie Nicks on her latest tour, tix were in the $300-1200 range.

As a GenXer who was already in my 30s when this movie came out, get off of my lawn -- 2003 was just a few years ago. But I think the only interesting part of this article was learning that Dunst is married to Plemons. I didn’t know that.

I’ve never understood the weird thing people seem to have against Consider Phlebas; I loved that book, snatching it off the shelves when it first came out, totally excited that this cool new author everyone was talking about had revealed himself as being into science fiction. For years, I thought it would be a great…

For me, Coppola selling off chunks of his wine empire to make a weird scifi movie is the definition of batshit crazy in a good way. I fucking love how he kept making films on his own terms up there even though nobody ever talks about the last few.

I love that he never gave up despite enough black eyes to send 20 other…

I’d just start with Consider Phlebas. It’s basically a series of gigantic action set-pieces strung together.

Of all the Culture books, I think Use of Weapons is maybe the most impossible to film.

As a geriatric millennial who was a senior in high school when this movie came out...this story is extremely old. Slow news day?

To be honest, after The Naked Sun, the robot books don’t do much for me. Most of Asimov’s later works in both robots and Foundation just don’t appeal to me, and linking the two did not help. (Nor did the incredibly obvious authorial insert in the later Foundation books, where he gets to repeatedly fuck an incredibly…

God Emperor is totally doable with modern special effects.

Hey there. G’day. I thought we were all finished here. What a nice surprise - I think?

Easter! It is the time, after all, for dead things coming back!

We’re back!

I just don’t understand how an enormously successful film director from the UK gets knighted before me, even though I’m an American who’s accomplished nothing and is, by most accounts, a burden on society.

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Nothing says staying safe when you do the same thing every week at the same time in the same place.  

Don’t forget Al Franken’s oft-repeated “I like Ted Cruz more than most people like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.”