Charlie Brown’s Christmas Stocking Fantagraphics Books Written and Illustrated by Charles Schulz While BOOM! Studios publishes new stories of the Peanuts gang in a monthly comic book and occasional graphic novel, Fantagraphics Books is reprinting Charles Schulz’s classic comic strip in their Complete Peanuts hardcover collections. This month, Fantagraphics released something unusual, a reprint ofContinue reading “On Things I’ve Been Reading”
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On a Tragic and Unnecessary Death in Ireland
I’ve been pondering this since yesterday. A woman in Ireland, Savita Halappanavar, began to miscarry her child. She asked for an abortion but the hospital refused. Several times over a period of days while she suffered in pain.. Ultimately, the body expelled the dead fetus, but Ms. Halappanavar now had blood poisoning and she died.Continue reading “On a Tragic and Unnecessary Death in Ireland”
On Star Trek/Doctor Who Speculations
Tomorrow, issue #7 of Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 arrives in shops. In about six weeks, the crossover epic will be done. Finito. Before we get the final issues, here’s how I think the series will shake out. Possible spoilers, naturally.
On What I Want for Doctor Who’s 50th-Anniversary
My last panel at Philcon this weekend was on 50 years of Doctor Who. It was a very good panel — it was mainly about why the series has lasted as long as it has, and there was also some good questions from the large audience. (It was the best attended panel I experienced allContinue reading “On What I Want for Doctor Who’s 50th-Anniversary”
On Paul McCartney, the Election, and His Band
Excepting Twitter, this is my last word on politics until Wednesday, and that’s a promise. 🙂 Paul McCartney and his band make an endorsement in the 2012 presidential election. I realized something watching that little video. Paul’s band has been together together for a decade. While the Beatles were a band for longer than that,Continue reading “On Paul McCartney, the Election, and His Band”
On Planning for Tuesday’s Election
Tuesday’s Election Day. Thank goodness. I feel a bit like Abigael Evans; I, too, am ready for “Bronco Bamma” and Mitt Romney to go away. I did not early vote. The early voting locations and times weren’t convenient to me. I’ll vote after work on Tuesday. The subway train will get back at 7 o’clock,Continue reading “On Planning for Tuesday’s Election”
On my Philcon 2012 Schedule
Next weekend is Philcon, a science-fiction convention held annually in the Philadelphia area. This year, like last year, it’s being held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. And this year, like last year, I’ll be attending the convention. My schedule for next weekend looks like this… Friday, November 9 The Eye of Argon Reading Crystal BallroomContinue reading “On my Philcon 2012 Schedule”
On Matt Smith’s Desire for a Sherlock/Doctor Who Crossover
Well, this is interesting. Matt Smith is expressing an interest in a Doctor Who/Sherlock crossover. Though I’d much rather see John Munch turn up in an episode of Doctor Who, I have to admit that the idea of the Doctor and Sherlock Holmes crossing paths isn’t a bad one. With the Canonical Holmes, there’s PatriciaContinue reading “On Matt Smith’s Desire for a Sherlock/Doctor Who Crossover”
On Today’s Commute
If you’ve followed me on Twitter or on Facebook today, you saw that I went to work. Yes, when Maryland’s governor asked people to stay off the roads — his exact words yesterday were “We are urging all citizens to hunker down at home and stay off the roads tomorrow” — I went to work.Continue reading “On Today’s Commute”
On My Grandmother’s Car
My grandmother’s boat of a car is gone. It was a mid-90s Ford Crown Victoria. No, scratch that. I’ve just looked at pictures. It was a late-80s Crown Victoria, probably about 1986 or 1987. I don’t know the last time my grandmother drove it. She didn’t drive it after summer 2005. That’s when the transmissionContinue reading “On My Grandmother’s Car”