This post throws a whole color guard of flags for me starting with the comment:
I have become increasingly interested in examining Joss Whedon’s work from a feminist perspective since I had a conversation with another lesbian feminist sister at the International Feminist Summit about whether Joss was a feminist.
It goes about where you’d expect it […]

Amazon’s recommendation algorithms can sometimes lead to rater humorous results.
I got this email today:

Now as far as I know Brian Michael Bendis has never collaborated with historical consultants and I’m pretty sure the artist for his run on Ultimate X-Men is not an expert on the oil industry…

I was home sick this last week so to kill some time I rented Mass Effect. From the get-go, fantastic game! Lots of options to customize your character, good controls that ween you into them, fun story, blah blah blah… Then I got about 45 minutes into it and hit the first timed portion of […]

Finally just finished watching/re-watching the first season of Smallville. A few observations:

There’s a whole lot more killing and violence in this than I remember.
Lana sucks.
Whitney is sooooooo lame.
Pete is far under-utilized.
Monster-of-the-week really doesn’t work for this show, it ends up feeling X-Files lite and doesn’t have the metaphor punch that Buffy gets from it.
It’s fun […]