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Trivia Thursday
In Ira levin’s This Perfect Day, children sing songs of praise to whom? What is the title of Steven Baxter’s sequel to H. G. Wells’ Time Machine? In which series, introduced in 1971, do Hermann Goering, Mark Twain, and Philip Francis Burton all appear? What would you buy in the Little Shop of Horrors? What…
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Link Dump
Toddler Droid Dresses – Cute homemade C3PO and R2D2 dresses for twins. Science Lab Cookie Cutters – Cookie cutters in the shape of test tubs and atoms and whatnot. Make cookies…for science! Set Phasers on “Whuh?” – The mouseover text is particularly entertaining. Scenes from a Multiverse – I mainly just love the host’s name.…
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Nighthawks at Mos Eisley
From Worth 1000 via Super Punch, found whilst I was trying to find the name of that one hooded alien in Mos Eisley. In related news, it makes me happy to live in a world where you can type “mos eisley alien hood” into a search engine and get an immediate answer. (It’s Garindan.)
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Hollywood is Dead
I’m tending toward ambivalence where posts about zombies are concerned. On the one necrotic, rotting hand, they were never really my favorite monsters even before their recent explosion in popular media left me with a severe case of burnout. On the other hand, their overexposure has resulted in some pretty clever riffs on the subject…
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It’s Alive! (With Your Help)
Jamie Lu Dunbar, the creator of BANG! The Universe Verse, is planning a sequel which will explore the origin and evolution of life on Earth. Where BANG! was fine in black and white (being mostly about space), IT’S ALIVE! would be much more compelling in color. Creating the required color illustrations will require an upgrade…
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Trivia Thursday
What Roger Zelazny novel features Siddhartha, Binder of Demons? What was the name of the semi-regular “science fiction” segment of The Muppet Show? Aldous Huxley’s classic SF novel Brave New World took its title from a line in a famous play. What was the play? What do these writers have in common? Robert Bloch, Harlan…
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100 Planets
Comic creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey has recently begun a new Webcomic, 100 Planets, which is an odd little minimalist strip involving a very 50s-esque spaceship’s encounters with planets such as The Planet Where You’re Always 10 Minutes Late and The Planet of Our Perfect Robotic Duplicates. They’re mostly sort of surreal, but a couple are…
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Seen Online
The weirdest part about being a parent is having to pretend to your child that the world makes sense. — amuirin Saw a kid wearing ripped up clothes while getting out of a ’89 Bronco II. I told him how awesome it is here in the future. — YeahImAshley I’d like to tell you I…
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“Possessed” Girl on Chatroulette
It’s sort of my opinion that anybody who goes, “I’ll just let a random stranger beam any image they want onto my monitor,” (which, at its heart, is what Chatroulette is) probably deserves what they get.* Which is why what Lionsgate did is hilarious: They leveraged the service to create a highly amusing ad campaign…
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NSFW, But Highly Entertaining
Rachel Bloom from Upright Citizens Brigade really likes her some Ray Bradbury. (Yesterday she reported that Mr. Bradbury had seen the video and enjoyed it.) As someone commented over at BoingBoing: If I were Bradbury, I would open every lecture, panel, and signing with this video for the foreseeable future: “Before we begin, have you…