Cubs win! Cubs win! Cubs win! :cubs: The Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals today, 5-4, at Wrigley. The Cubs clinched the National League Central, repeating as the NL Central Division champion. This is also the first time, since 1908, the Cubs have gone to the post-season two years in a row. Cubs win! CubsContinue reading “On the Cubs’ Post-Season”
Author Archives: Allyn
On the Perils of Peanut Butter
My grandmother refrigerates peanut butter. I do not like refrigerated peanut butter. The reason? It’s impossible to spread. It comes out in clumps, and it tears the bread apart as I try to smooth it out. All I wanted, all I really wanted, was a peanut butter and banana sandwich. However, my grandmother had eatenContinue reading “On the Perils of Peanut Butter”
On “The Time of My Life”
About six months ago I started picking up Doctor Who Magazine on a regular basis. DWM used to be hard to come by on this side of the Pond, and within a year of the new series starting up the magazine began turning up in more and more bookstores. So, why the long wait? ItContinue reading “On “The Time of My Life””
On “The Goddamn McCain”
Consider Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. An aged hero confronts a new generation. He’s older, he’s slower, he knows that he’s physically no match. An artist has done an incredible job mixing portaits of John McCain with Frank Miller’s Batman dialogue and thought balloons from The Dark Knight Returns. If Frank Miller, circa 1985,Continue reading “On “The Goddamn McCain””
On New Hitchhiker’s
Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, will be writing a new novel in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. I don’t know what to say. I mean, yes, I’ll be curious. But at the same time, I just don’t know. I mean, I really don’t know. Colfer himself says: My first reaction wasContinue reading “On New Hitchhiker’s”
On the Return of House
House is back. Oh, how I’ve missed it. 🙂 I read in this morning’s paper that Hugh Laurie is signed with the series through the 2010-2011 season. So, two more years, through the seventh season. And now that House is back… I thought the episode was… okay. There’s no reason, that I can discern, forContinue reading “On the Return of House”
On Rethinking Scenes
So, the other day I sketched out a scene for the novel I’m plotting while on the subway ride home. As I wrote on this website at the time, I saw it as a follow-on to a previously sketched out scene. Then, while walking to the post office on my lunch break today, I hadContinue reading “On Rethinking Scenes”
On Paul McCartney and Israel
What the hell is wrong with the world? A Muslim preacher, Omar Bakri, has threatened Paul McCartney if he performs, as planned, in Tel Aviv later in the month in a concert celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary: If he values his life, Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there. TheContinue reading “On Paul McCartney and Israel”
On Living in the Middle Ages
A meme from Keith — who would I be if I lived in 1400 CE: Your result for The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test… The Knight You scored 24% Cardinal, 38% Monk, 44% Lady, and 70% Knight! You are the hero. Brave and bold. You are strong and utterly selfless. You areContinue reading “On Living in the Middle Ages”
On Joan Winston
Joanie Winston passed away earlier this week. It seems strange to me that I’m referring to her as “Joanie,” but that was how she introduced herself to me at Shore Leave a few years ago, and even though she was a decade shy of my grandmother’s age, she’ll always be, in my mind, Joanie. JoanContinue reading “On Joan Winston”