Trek books for me—first I finished Leonard Nimoy’s I Am Spock, which is a delightful little memoir—light in tone but more thoughtful than one might expect. Now I’m working on Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics, which looks into the potential ins-and-outs of post-scarcity economics, parallels across other SF stories and…

My friend who worked at a coffee place loved cleaning the toilets since it was a break from the customers—their literal shit was easier to deal with than their metaphorical shit!

My first reaction to this comment is “woah, facebook’s into some dark shit”

And I think Clinton’s lucked out that the “basket” comment, despite the press’s best efforts, has ended up tripping up Republicans and brought out a lot more about their relationship with the far right .

I made the mistake of listening to Skeleton Tree yesterday afternoon when I was trying to get some work done. Bad idea, both because it’s the kind of album that doesn’t just demand your complete attention but it just reaches out and roughly grabs it and because it’s heavy. Cathartically heavy, maybe, but I was in such…

Frank Ocean sits in his undertground lair, his hand hovering over a big, glowing green button labeled “TOUR”

A young girl’s strange, erotic journey from mélange to mince.

Oh shit that was him! I’d forgotten he did that.

Hamlet in Klingon:

For in that sleep of life, what dreams may come,

A Deutsche Grammophon release featured on the AVC! More of this, please—little contemporary classical blurbs on the regular would be great.

Salt of the Earth was well received and I liked it overall—I had my issues with it but they were more about the subject than its film itself.

Hmm…seems appropriate for a movie about Le Roi Soleil that devotion has to be assumed. That said I’ll probably see this—sucker for French history and a fan of Léaud (he did this eyebrow lift in a trailer that made me crack up), and frankly if I’ll probably need the isolation of a theater to give it my full attention.

As you should—lots of people can’t make it.

To me it even feels like T2 and Aliens are kind of the same movie.

On the plus side he doesn’t turn Paul Winfield evil with a mind-slug. On the minus side he still kills him.

Seriously, one of the most disappointing things about moving to the US (or at least the west coast) is the relative paucity of competent croissants relative to Europe, where even ones from the canteen were good enough that one (plus a coffee and piece of fruit) became my standard lunch. The drizzling chocolate on top…

I think people realized they misjudged MAYA pretty quickly—IIRC in the one of the AVC’s 2010(?) year in review articles Koski said that she felt like it hadn’t gotten the immediate critical momentum it had deserved and that its reputation had already been unfairly tanked (I couldn’t find that reference in a few…

And this really didn’t read like a C- review to me—it sounded like it might not hold togetheras an album (which is kind of an odd thing to critique in 2016) but that the songs were quite interesting. And I’m going to second @exexalien:disqus (who finished his comment before me) on Arular-Kala (MAYA hasn’t stuck with…

Best Trek fruit is the melon O’Brien and Ezri blew up in a late-season DS9 episode—they evidently went to a lot of trouble to get the pulp all alien-looking just for a brief shot (and it did look weird).