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So, I’ve been way busy with the band (robotJunky), the new videogaming site (gamesAreEvil) and my work (Special Ed. Service Agency). Plus, you know, parenting and husbanding and such.
I’ve also been trying to keep up the reading. I feel like a more ocmplete human being when I a) read, and b) exercise. So here’s a [...]

Charlie’s Diary: Bechdel’s Law
The current decade is characterized by security anxieties writ large, a socially conservative culture of retreat from liberalism, and a strong anti-feminist backlash. Our popular media, far from being the bastions of liberal values that conservatives say they are, are actually belwethers of popular culture, amplifying, reinforcing, and reflecting our culture’s normative [...]

I hate hate fucking HATE The Chronicles of Riddick, mostly for the way it trashed one of my fav little scifi films. Apparently, so does John Scalzi, a new-ish (to me) fav sf author that I’ve come to dig:
AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi - The Ridiculousness of Riddick, or, How Not [...]

Goodreads | Iron Man: Extremis
Get it, read it. Ellis can do no wrong. It’s got all his trademark themes and humor, applied to a superhero that’s more like you and me than most.