Vampires are all the rage these days. With the popularity of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series, HBO's True Blood and the Sweedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, kids everywhere are appropriating vampire culture. No big deal, right? Well, it's no big deal unless you're a real vam...

The Institute For The Future Of The Book sums up my ill feelings about John Updike: His death is, in a sense, another nail in the coffin of a kind of literary vanguard. I can understand why this blog’s readership might relish, openly or in private, the extinction of these writers, particularly...

I bought Joe Nazzaro's (name sounds vaguely familiar but don't know why) Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Television from the local comic store mostly on the strength of a picture of Angel on the cover. I'm shallow. Well, okay. It's a collection of interviews with writers and producers of a numbe...

"George Bush is NOT the president ... we're alive! ... we actually made it!" - Chris Rock I certainly couldn't put it any better myself, so I'll just move on to something much, much more trivial. Along with the Oscar nominations coming tomorrow morning, there's evidence (though I can't yet call it p...

84 icons. Requests & misc. icontest entries. teaser: when you see my face, hope it gives you hell....

79 icons. REQUESTS! Multi-fandomishness. teaser: here....

Image via Wikipedia I was trying to print out a label for return of goods to Amazon today, but none of the options appearing on screen fitted the situation. I ordered ONE copy of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer graphic novel, and THREE turned up, all of them charged to my card. I accept mistakes are some...

When Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its run in 2003, it didn't just fade away. Sunnydale might have been obliterated, but the Joss Whedon universe was buzzing with the possibility of other spinoffs, television films, and big screen appearances. Over the last five years, that has become increasingly ...

Filed under: OpEd, Reality-Free It's that time of year again -- time to shop 'til you drop, bake until you sweat, eat until you bloat, and take stock in what you are thankful for, in your life and of course, on television. You might think that in this season of less-than-stellar television, it would...

The Good: For today only, Amazon.com is selling the Buffy the Vampire Slayer complete series box set for $69.99, free shipping included. Back in my day, each season cost $60 itself! I totally just bought one, partly because a) I've always wanted it, b) a lot of my old discs are scratched up from so ...