I haven’t read the books. From my perspective, I really loved the world building (my favorite moments were when we got hints at how the ships and world worked), and found the characters by and large unlikable and unremarkable, cardboard cutouts of their “types.” It didn’t help that the dialogue mix was turned way…

As soon as I saw this on TV last night, I immediately went online and googled until I found the mug. Spent this morning desperately calling stores to see if they had it in stock. My husband just acquired the last two (based on my phone call marathon) in stock in the greater Los Angeles area.

Only one way to express my…

“El-oh-El was an acronym. It stood for “laughing out loud,” or “laugh out loud,” though in my head I always pronounced it “loll.” Like head-loll. It was spelled LOL. Gunters used it in chats when we wanted to express that something was funny, but didn’t want to type out “ha ha ha.” LOL had its origins in the internet…

I hate posting twice, but the more I think about it, the more this statement bugs me:

“Plus, he’s been much, much, much more involved with fandom than the King of the Nerds hosts ever were, so it’s entirely possible he won’t allow the show to alienate his legion of fans, his people?”

First of all, Curtis Armstrong and…

Did you actually watch King of the Nerds, Rob? As in, more than the promos or one full episode? The TBS promos were ridiculous, but the show itself was a lot of fun, and wasn’t about making fun of nerds so much as it was a lighthearted celebration of what geek culture likes and dislikes. Although to be honest, I’m not…

Barry Sonnenfeld I approve of for directing. I take the show runner announcement to be very bad news. The show runner keeps the story on task, makes sure characters remain consistent, oversees the writing and is the main creative lead. The fact that True Blood failed on all of those counts, despite also being based on…

Didn’t he kiss Carter right before she died? He also kissed the Fixer lady.

I was going to say the same thing, but “Equilibrium” instead of “The Island.”

I think your mom is right, here. My own mom went through the same gift-giving thing with my dad. It wasn’t until she said “no more” and stopped buying him presents altogether that he started to realize he really wasn’t holding up his end of the deal. The fact of the matter, the money and stress of gift-buying is HUGE,…

My mother says that fashion designers are pushing that look on purpose: they know that ultimately older women are the only one who can afford (are willing to pay for) high end fashion right now, so they are quietly designing clothes that will be loose and comfortable for older women (because that’s what that customer…

Yup. I’ve been getting properly fitted bras, and was shocked to find I was a 30DD/32D when I’d been wearing 32A bras. Why? ‘Cause I just thought I was small, and small breasts wore As. Turns out, most the tissue was just getting squished into my arm pits, but still, I don’t look huge—I have a pretty broad/round base…

I think Sam Worthington’s the acting equivalent of “fetch.” I just want to tell Hollywood, “Stop trying to make that man happen, he’s not going to happen.”

Oh, so the prequel to Titan A.E., pretty much?

Grimspace (Sirantha Jax #1). Hands down, just awful. It got a lot of positive press, so I picked it up, only to find that the author was a savvy marketer but I hated the writing. The writing wasn’t only bad—her action sequences were literally ripped right out of science fiction movies, one in particular stood out to…

That’s a fair point, and one I appreciate because it supports my overall argument - there was a lot of good about Firefly, but there’s room for improvement, and Killjoys might - if handled correctly - come to surpass it.

These may be fighting words, but I’m actually starting to like some aspects of this better than Firefly.

Gasp, astounding, I know.

But once you get past the humor and stellar dialogue on Firefly, it wasn’t a perfect show. There wasn’t a ton of character growth or change. There was the feeling that a lot of characters…

When this came up with my boyfriend (now husband) I said: You wouldn’t buy a Ferrari and not expect to put time and money into maintaining it. If you’d prefer a more affordable Honda Civic or a Volvo, please, be my guest.

Probably not very feminist of me, but he got it and hasn’t complained about the money I spend on…

Also, she really looks like she got a laser skin peel at the dermatologists’ office. That’s the tell-tale greasy sunscreen they slather on you afterwards and drill into you that you have to wear several days out. I know because my mom had that same shiney/greasy look the day after she had hers done. If you get a lot…

So true! And astounding how many were in music—though maybe it’s selective bias, based on my own experiences as a music-focused kid. But I remember when I was 13, I started voice lessons with a music teacher. He said some things to me that, when I told my mother, disturbed her enough that she immediately un-enrolled…

IKEA is more like a Cult-Created Temple to one of the dark Old Things of the Netherworld, a labyrinth designed to sap our immortal energies from our mortal bodies in order to feed the Darker Gods of the Before Time and give them strength for their ultimate return.