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Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1 – ALWR
[ Mood: Happy ][ Currently: Recording a Podcast – no really. ]I am not a Green Lantern fan. My knowledge of the character comes from his association with Green Arrow through Justice League and the...
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Go Team Everyone Else
[ Mood: Sleepy ][ Currently: Editing a Podcast ]The RevolutionSF books editor, Peggy Hailey, is attempting to beat all the children in her town in a reading contest. You can send letters of...
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier (LWR)
[ Mood: Amused ][ Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]You want to know what Alan Moore was thinking about as he was writing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier? Sex. Sex. Sex. Sex....
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Aurora – Some thoughts
[ Mood: Shocked ][ Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]A Facebook friend commented on the blaming for the horrific events in Aurora on the Joker. A discussion ensured and these were my thoughts. I...
View ArticleHow to Stop Bullying
A little off topic today, but relevant. <Drags out soapbox. Steps up.> If we truly want bullying to stop, we need to stop looking to children to change their behaviour. We need to start looking...
View ArticleWhining About Saturday Mornings Gone By
I have seen a lot in the last 24 hours about the end of the Saturday Morning Cartoon Block. Many of my Gen X friends are wringing their hands at the loss of three to four hours of cartoon goodness. And...
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The Elite – A Long Winded Review
Imagine a distopian future world where North America where your birth determined your job. It is a society divided into clases, with each class only allowed to do certain jobs. Over all of them sit...
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Boy/Girl Kinder Eggs
Jenna Bush over at Legion of Leia posted the following photo on Facebook And rightly pointed out that there were no female superheroes in the selection. And she is right. Black Widow and Captain...
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Black Canary #1
I did something for the first time this week, I went to the local comic book shop (convieniently called The Comic Shoppe) and picked up a comic to which I have subscribed. I felt like a member of the...
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The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard
The Selection is a distopian YA series about a young woman named America Singer who is chosen to be one of the candidates to marry the Crown Prince of Illea. The whole process is televsed to distract...
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The Heir – A review
I loved the first installment of this series, The Selection. I literally fell into the book and emerged excited and in love with a new author. I followed America through the rest of the series,...
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Hawkeye: My life as a weapon
How do you make something lame cool? Hawkeye is lame. The world knows it. There are whole tropes about his lameness. No one should be surprised by this. Originally conceived as Marvel’s version of...
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The Jewel (The Lone City, #1) – A Review
Violet used to live in the Marsh, the poorest area of the One City. But she possesses a genetic variation that allows her to manipulate the world around her using what is called the Auguries. This...
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Thank you, Internet
The Internet is many things: a place where I spend a lot of time, a water cooler, a public square, the Wild West, a dystopia. But what it has been for many of us is the place that spoil us on the...
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Project Runway – Season 15 Episode 1
Confession time. I love fashion. I love it’s drama, it’s whimsy, it’s frivolousness. LOVE IT. I don’t follow it too closely, but I do enjoy a good runway show. As part of this, I have come to love...
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Why Hermione Should Not Have Ended Up With Harry
The Harry Potter series ended in a tidy bow of Harry marrying Ginny and Hermione and Ron ending up together. Many fans didn’t like this, thinking that Hermione and Harry were meant to be together. Even...
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RUNWAY! RUNWAY! RUNWAY!!!
You may have heard that Tim Gunn recently published an editorial the pointed out fashion didn’t want to design for the majority of women. Probably his actual feelings, but also is probably a tie in...
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I Love Nina!
So another week of Project Runway, and another week of drama and mean guy behaviour. This week’s challenge is to make a look that transitions from normal light to black light. It’s a tie in with an...
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Boywatch – Episode 1
Being a geek parent is a game of waiting. There is so much you want to share with your child. So many TV shows that you enjoyed that you want them to enjoy. I, like many geek moms, is taking the time...
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