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JournalMastodon: Viva la Revolución! If you're reading this, you've probably clicked the link on my Mastodon profile. Hiya. Yes, it's me. Have fun running around and looking at various areas of the site. If not, and you're still running around on the increasing...
All The Best Writers Have Death Issues
I never thought I would say this, especially this time: Putting the funeral for Dad together might have been the best thing to help me achieve some sort of peace with his death. This isn’t the first eulogy, or funeral, that I’ve had to help arrange. I had almost zero...
One More First Time
STAR WARS is not about the movies themselves. Hasn't been, for a long while. We will go on and on about the other movies in the series. "Franchise." Whatever. In my mind, the thing that makes the films so special is almost irrelevant to the actual films themselves. I...
The Vinegar Of 21st Century Fandom
When I think of the way people view popular franchises, I think of the painting of the three vinegar tasters I first saw when I was studying Buddhism…
Bullies Are Bullies, Even When They’re Nerds
People like to point to the late Sixties through the late Eighties, the era Gen-X grew up, as the start of Geek Culture’s Golden Age. In a two-decade span, you saw the rise of DOCTOR WHO, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, STAR TREK, STAR WARS, BATTLESTAR: GALACTICA, and so many...
Goodnight, Grandmother.
So many of my Christmas memories are inexorably bound to my grandmother’s house. The primary place my family celebrated the holiday was there, along with dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. The dinner and gift exchange were always the centerpiece, but there...
Requiem For A Goddamned Batman
I’ve been trying for the last hour to write something appropriate for Scott Eric Kaufman. Nothing works, however. Nothing fits. I want him to be on the other end of a Facebook instant message, so I could bounce ideas off him for the perfect lead. I did that, off and...
Rebel, Rebel
The most ridiculous thing about the way I found out about David Bowie’s death was the first notice, where a notorious death hoax site published a note saying not that he had passed, but that it was a hoax that he had died. Instead, we learned within the hour that the...
We Will Not Be Of Good Cheer: How Andy Williams Haunts My Holidays
If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know of my absolute aversion to Andy Williams’ holiday classic song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year.” What you might not know, however, is the story of why I break out in hives at the first notes of the song. In...
The Day I Made Harrison Ford Laugh
My last regular writing gig was for a site I co-founded called Red Carpet Crash, in 2009. In the three years I wrote for the site as its editor, I did hundreds of interviews, but the one I enjoyed the most was in the environment I liked the least: the roundtable...
The Universe Does Not Owe You That Thing You Want
Amid the coverage articles for the short-run of GILMORE GIRLS, this comment jumped out from the din of “OMG I CAN’T WAIT” “What? Wait! Did *anyone* ask for this? I didn’t ask for this! Bring back FIREFLY — a show that more people will watch and love!” …okay. Let’s...
Forgetting To Remember
History isn’t written in an instant. We’d like to think so, these days. Best Something EVER, we’ll say about a performance, or a film, or a t-shirt. (More likely, WORST ever, but that’s a discussion for another day.) In the realm of Instant Gratification and Flash...
The Duality Of Leonard Nimoy
With all of the STAR TREK cast members I've had the sheer pleasure of meeting over the years, the only time I had a chance to speak with Leonard Nimoy was during his 2010 appearance at Dallas Comic Con. I was doing some studying up on a panel (I think it was the FLASH...
Goodnight, Sharon
In my dream, she’s picking me up from the airport, like she did on that Summer day in 1993. She looks at me, with that knowing smile, and all I can do is sigh. It was good to be home. It was good that she was the one that I saw first. For the last 18 hours, I’ve been...
Don’t We All?
I keep going back to the Doctor Who episode (reboot Series Six, ep four) “The Doctor’s Wife.” It's Neil Gaiman’s writing, which would make me happy regardless. However, there’s one bit of dialogue between Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill that I simply love....
Thought Experiment: Replacing The American Tip With A Living Wage
Before I begin, I want you all to take a deep breath — especially my friends who have worked in the service industry. Ready? Okay. Is it feasible for restaurants and bars to price their goods where servers and bartenders made an actual, salaried wage instead of...