Daily Archives: July 24, 2008
You’re All Insane
Posted on July 24, 2008 68 Comments
For everyone in comments and e-mail who have plaintively asked if it’s okay if they like the Seven and the Ragged Tiger album, here’s a Duran Duran video for y’all: It’s “New Moon on Monday,” in which Simon, John, Roger, Andy and Nick (God please strike me dead for being able to remember all their […]
Also —
Posted on July 24, 2008 25 Comments
If you like fluffy white clouds — I mean, really like fluffy white clouds — you should be in Ohio right about now. Bigger version here. And hey, what do you know — using a polarized filter does help.
Airing a Repeat: On Submitting Bitchy E-Mails to Scalzi’s Attention
Posted on July 24, 2008 130 Comments
Someone is presently boring me in e-mail, so I thought this might be a nice time to haul the following chestnut out of the archives. This is originally from 2004. On Submitting Bitchy E-Mails to Scalzi’s Attention A quick note to anyone who has got it in their mind to send me bitchy e-mail: My […]
History and Science Fiction and Movies
Posted on July 24, 2008
Hey! Thursday again, and another AMC column on science fiction movies. This time I talk about what science fiction and historical movies have in common, which is, not a whole lot of fidelity to their academic subjects — and why maybe that doesn’t matter a whole lot when it comes to science fiction. I’m sure […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying