Is it me, or has anyone else noticed quite a lot of post-apocalyptic cultural expressions in the last decade? While the nineties were about vampires — and you could argue pretty effectively that this fetish hasn’t waned too much — the aughts seem to be the years of the zombie.
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More Criminal Behavior
Yes, we, the viewing public, are truly criminals. I mean, we must be to be treated this way. Tonight, I got an interesting flag on a TiVo recording. I never watch Law & Order, but I received a text message that Katee Sakhoff would be a guest star. (OK, so I get texts about Battlestar [...]
I Spoke too Soon
I’m really tired of being treated like a criminal. When are these big companies going to learn: the more they try to break my digital devices, the faster they will lose? The more they try to control their digital content with DRM, the more they damage themselves? They might be able to keep their content [...]
TiVo!
Well, we’re TiVo people again. Thanks to Circuit City going out of business here, we were able to score an HD TiVo box for $80. We had been thinking about ditching cable, but with the addition of more HD channels and now a brand new TiVo, we’ll be holding on to cable for a while. [...]
Star Trek: 1966-2005
Today’s Op-Ed section of the NYTimes prints the obituary of our long-beloved Star Trek. Since the Times only has its articles available for a short time, I’ll reprint the whole thing here: By the middle of May, the “Star Trek” franchise will be no more, having died a death as long and lingering as — [...]
Long Way Round
I finished watching “Long Way Round” this evening. Though I wish they had spent some more time highlighting the U.S., the seven episode series was very well done. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman rode 20,000 miles from London to New York City, though Mongolia and Siberia on a pair of BMW R 1150 GS motorcycles. [...]
The X-Files Effect: The Case of José Chung
What I call the “X-Files Effect,” then, is similar to the notion that Luckhurst examines in his article: the science-fictionalization of trauma; i.e., it is a person’s attempt to explain postmodern trauma through recourse to “genre stories”: abduction scenarios, new ageism, conspiracy theories, and the technological sublime.
