Jul

An Open Letter To Orson Scott Card

Posted by John Seavey Published in Books, Flicks, General Nerd Crap, The Internets

Dear Mr. Card, I wanted you to know that I recently read your statement regarding the proposed boycott of ‘Ender’s Game’, and I can understand where you’re coming from in your plea for tolerance. Believe me, I can understand what it’s like to worry that your livelihood will be affected by the intolerance of others. […]

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Jul

ALIGNMENT CHART! That 70s Show

Posted by MGK Published in D&D Explains Everything, TV

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Jul

I Co-Signed

Posted by John Seavey Published in General Nerd Crap, General Nerd Shit, Important Things!

I just added my name to John Scalzi’s pledge (original pledge here, place for others to co-sign here) to refuse to attend any convention that does not have a clearly defined, well-publicized, rigorously enforced harassment policy. Admittedly, John Scalzi would be refusing to attend as a Guest of Honor, while I would be refusing to […]

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Jul

I love, I love, I love my magical girl, each and every day of the year

Posted by Jaime Weinman Published in Comics

So in the last month, I’ve been trying to read more superhero comics than I ever did before, trying to give myself a crash course in an art form I should have followed when I was young, but didn’t. (So please remember this in light of what follows, and make allowances for the narrow, American-corporate-comics […]

18 comments

Jul

Can’t we just give Jane Lynch the Best Lesbian Ever award already

Posted by MGK Published in The Internets, TV

My weekly TV column is up at Torontoist.

11 comments

Jul

part six, page twenty-six

Posted by MGK Published in Al'Rashad, Comics

Click on thumb to see full As always, you can also go to the dedicated Al’Rashad site.

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Jul

Single-sentence review of White House Down

Posted by MGK Published in Flicks

Channing Tatum deserves better than a movie that is so bad it deserves to be ranked next to Showgirls in the list of movies that their creators will eventually pretend were meant to be parodies.

21 comments

Jul

Review: London Falling

Posted by John Seavey Published in Books, You Should Read

I always feel like I should begin a review like this with a disclaimer, so full disclosure: I’ve been reading Paul Cornell’s books since he was transforming Doctor Who novels into something utterly beyond awesome with ‘Timewyrm: Revelation’. I’ve been on a few mailing lists he was on, and there’s a non-zero chance he might […]

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Jul