I haven’t updated in a few days because of a variety of things — a hopefully minor but scary health issue at the beginning of the week, writing (a book chapter, a journal paper, two abstracts for two talks, and a proposal for another paper), plus general summer lethargy is finally kicking in. I’m [...]

Yesterday, while randomly poking around YouTube, I came across an awesome little bit of fandom and media reappropriation: Remixes of Doctor Who “Next Time” trailers.
For those of you who don’t know, Doctor Who is the venerable British science fiction institution, in production from 1963 through 1989 and then again since 2005. The latest [...]

Well, I was on local TV last night.
It was, initially, what you’d probably expect from a local news piece on videogames — a sensationalistic ‘VIDEOGAMES ARE ADDICTIVE AND MIGHT HURT YOUR CHILDREN!” kind of spin (at least from the lead-in by the anchor). But, after the hook, it turned into a collection of short [...]

I’ve been struggling the last week with trying to get a book chapter done, and whenever I’m not working on that, I’ve been spending time either rearranging the furniture in my house, watching movies, or both. The semi-annual Deep Discount sale makes up something like 80% of my yearly DVD shopping (plus, like I’ve [...]

As I’ve stated a few times before, I’m a rural Ohio boy. And, while that would probably lead one to think I was more comfortable with nature than most, it’s quite the contrary — there’s nothing to do in rural Ohio, so I’d spend most of my summers sitting in front of the television, [...]

I posted recently about the Deep Discount sale, as I always do — I don’t mind giving that company free “advertising” (c’mon, maybe five people regularly read this weblog anyway), and that got me thinking about my stupid DVD collection. I linked to it in the previous post, so click on that if you [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again. In early June and early December, Deep Discount runs its 20% off all DVDs sale. If you paid attention to previous versions of this weblog, you might have seen me post detailed lists of my semi-annual “DVD haul,” but not this time. I’m too poor [...]