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Good News for Talented Friends

It was quite a day for a few friends and I wanted to share it here for the wider audience. First up, in the news of the day… Martin Wilson, who wrote the excellent What They Always Tell Us, saw his debut novel become a Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Best LGBT...

Watchmen

I’ll say up front that I had little experience with Watchmen before I saw the movie this afternoon.  I was aware it was a graphic novel that had a sizable following, but I didn’t know the characters or plot. What little I knew came out of the trailers and...

Friday Geek Out: Night of the Comet

Here’s a massive dose of 80s flashback for Friday: 1984’s Night of the Comet. I didn’t see this in the theater, but did see it a lot when it hit cable TV. It’s one of the funniest end-of-the-world movies ever. A friend recently brought this...

Boldly Go… Again

Back in November I wrote about working on a Star Trek sweepstakes and I’ve just completed another one. The prizes are great: a trip for four to the Star Trek movie premiere in May and a trip for four to take a Zero Gravity flight. Pretty cool, right? If...

2009 Oscars

Just a few things to say on last night’s ceremony (which, in all honesty, I watched most of in about a half hour this morning courtesy of the DVRs fast-forward): My favorite three moments: Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black said this at the end of this...

Friday the 13th

While I can be pretty freaked out by horror movies to the point where I won’t go see many of them, I have always enjoyed the Friday the 13th franchise (as well as Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises). So I was looking forward to the new Friday the...