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My roommate and I in college once had a big argument about books. We both loved the “Apprentice Adept” trilogy by Piers Anthony. We bonded over those books, which was good because we didn’t always have a whole lot else in common. But then, the unthinkable happened. Piers Anthony wrote a sequel. My roommate was [...]

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So they announced something at the D23 Disney Fan Convention that totally blows me away. No, there won’t be free massages from the princesses in a totally revamped Fantasyland. They actually announced the sub-title of the new Pirates of the Caribbean flick — On Stranger Tides. Reading this announcement caused me to spit shredded wheat [...]

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Did music ever stir your emotions? Make you cry? Laugh? Feel afraid? Feel like getting out of your seat and moving? Yeah, you macho guys are sitting there, going, “No way…music only makes me want to rawk!” Well, maybe so. But what about the stirring, high-pitched violin string as the stalker sneaks up on the [...]

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So, I got a lot of books for Christmas, being a reading nerd, and one of my favorites is “Good Day and Mad” by Dick DeBartolo. Dick is the Giz Wiz, as well as Mad Magazine’s Maddest Writer. He’s been writing for the magazine so long he must have been born writing a satire of [...]

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Some interesting notes on the new Hitchhiker’s book from The Guardian. It’s being published by Penguin, not Hyperion as I reported earlier. (I thought the NPR thing mentioned Hyperion.) It’s sanctioned by Adams’ wife. It’s plotted as a way of bringing Douglas Adams’ work to the next generation of readers. Um…on that last point, wouldn’t [...]

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Eoin Colfer, who wrote the popular childrens book series Artemis Fowl has been tapped to write a sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now, I like Mr. Colfer okay. I understand his reasoning for not turning down the offer out of hand. And I hope he does a decent job. I read the [...]

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I have a confession to make. I didn’t rush out to the theater to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I hear you gasp. I hear you ask what has happened to my fandom. And no, I will not turn in my Jedi Knights membership card. Mind tricks are far too useful. The characters are [...]

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Picture me in 1981, a geeky 13, sitting in front of my dad’s big boom-box stereo, stack of cassette tapes nearby, along with my self-constructed lightsaber and my Kenner X-Wing, all ready to listen to the very first episode of the Star Wars radio series on NPR. I’m a little less than 30 minutes early, [...]

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If you’re not familiar with Oliver Sacks, he’s a neurologist who has sort of popularized the field of brain science in much the same way that Carl Sagan has popularized the field of astronomy. He’s written a tall stack of books detailing the unique cases he has come across in his profession, and providing a [...]

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I just finished the latest novel in the Warcraft universe, World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal. This one picks up where the last one left off. The orcs once again open the Dark Portal from Draenor to Azeroth, mainly to steal some magical artifacts so that they can escape their dying world, and build [...]

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