There Will Be Chrome
Mar 01So it’s been about a year and a half since the announcement of Blood and Chrome, a story that would take place between Caprica and Battlestar Galactica, and which would feature a young Bill Adama during the first Cylon war. Since then, Blood and Chrome’s announced status has shifted back and forth among three possibilities: [...]
The Sign of Two
Dec 24Sherlock has two theme tunes – the “Main Theme,” which plays over the opening credits, and sounds like this: – and “Sherlock’s Theme,” which pops up at various points during the show, and sounds like this: My question is: why on earth do they use the first theme for the opening credits when the second [...]
Random Rambles
Nov 24Speaking of Burroughs, while I was in San Diego for Libertopia last month I made a point of driving past the house on Coronado where Burroughs lived in 1913, when he was writing The Return of Tarzan and some of the early Barsoom and Pellucidar books. It looks exactly the same today as in this [...]
Entangling Alliances With Nun
Nov 08Around 1984, my college roommate Paul Fine (my collaborator on the Kant Song) and I wrote, inter alia, a song called “Sister Ann,” which I like best of all our joint compositions. Below are the lyrics; lines in bold are Paul’s and the rest are mine. All the music is Paul’s. Here’s a version with [...]
Scary Singing
Oct 31David Tennant (who will be David Ownner after the revolution), Catherine Tate, and other Doctor Who cast and crew members commemorate series 1-4 here: And this next video reminds us just how Hallowe’eny series 5-6 have been: (CHT TARDIS Newsroom here, here, and here.)
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