I suspect that I’ve outgrown Dead Poets Society. I watched it Monday night. The occasion was, sadly, Robin Williams’ death at the too-young age of sixty-three. My selection of Williams’ films at hand is small (The Fisher King may be the only other one I own on DVD), and I’m fonder of Dead Poets, soContinue reading “Outgrowing Dead Poets Society”
Pink Night at Metro Bank Park
Last night I was in Harrisburg for my sixth Senators game of the year. In the spring I bought a six-ticket mini-plan, and a ticket from April, when my Beetle was in the shop with a blown transmission, was swapped out for a ticket in August. Last night, to be exact. The Senators were playingContinue reading “Pink Night at Metro Bank Park”
Doctor Who: Engines of War
A few months ago, BBC Books announced George Mann’s Engines of War, a hardcover Doctor Who novel that starred John Hurt’s Doctor, seen in the 50th-anniversary special, “The Day of the Doctor,” during the Time War. The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. Scores of human colony planets are now overrunContinue reading “Doctor Who: Engines of War”
No, RNC, I Do Not Miss W
The Republican National Committee wants me to donate money. In exchange, they’ll send me an “I Miss W.” mug. Considering how I really would like to see Bush in the dock at the Hague, I think it’s safe to say that I’m not the RNC’s target audience. What amuses the hell out of me isContinue reading “No, RNC, I Do Not Miss W”
Fundraising and John Boehner’s Lawsuit
Today I have received more political fundraising e-mails than I can count. And, with one exception, they’ve all centered on the House GOP’s vote to sue President Obama. The Atlantic had a piece up today about the 21 fundraising emails the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent out over the weekend about the lawsuit and itsContinue reading “Fundraising and John Boehner’s Lawsuit”
Why Harlan Ellison’s Batman Story Isn’t “Lost”
At San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, DC Entertainment announced Batman ’66: The Lost Episode, an adaptation by Len Wein and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez of a Harlan Ellison story for the Adam West Batman television series that would have seen the Caped Crusader do battle with Two-Face. A Harlan Ellison-penned story for Batman? you say. HowContinue reading “Why Harlan Ellison’s Batman Story Isn’t “Lost””
Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Notebooks
BBC Books recently published Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Notebooks. Newly discovered entries and drawings in William Shakespeare’s journals reveal for the first time the astounding relationship between the Bard of Avon and the Doctor! BBC Books has rediscovered notebooks, long thought lost, compiled by the Bard in which he divulges the influential role the DoctorContinue reading “Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Notebooks”
Ethan Hawke’s “The Black Album”
I haven’t seen Richard Linklater’s new film Boyhood yet, and despite the rave reviews I may not anytime soon, but there is an aspect of the film that touches on my interests. At some late point in the film, the character played by Ethan Hawke gives his son a 3-disc mixtape of post-Beatles songs. It’sContinue reading “Ethan Hawke’s “The Black Album””
To Jason, On His Thirty-Fifth Birthday
Dear Jason, We haven’t talked in a long time. Almost seven years, not since you asked what I knew about eBay scams and how your father had been taken in by one on a camper. We talked about that and Sophia Myles and how The Project was progressing, and then the conversation drew to aContinue reading “To Jason, On His Thirty-Fifth Birthday”
Robin Rises Omega
Robin Rises Omega DC Entertainment Written by Peter Tomasi Art by Andy Kubert and Jonathan Glapion Several years ago, Grant Morrison introduced comics audiences to Batman’s son, Damian Wayne. The product of an encounter with Talia al Ghul, the daughter of long-time foe Ra’s al Ghul, Damian had been raised by Talia and trained inContinue reading “Robin Rises Omega”