...and everything in between
...and everything in between
I first read Octavia Butler’s Kindred in high school, but, looking back, I don’t really know that I was ready to process the novel for what it truly was: a dark reflection on how a person’s power and agency are…
According to BBC Newsnight, the Walt Disney Company is negotiating with Carrie Fisher’s estate “over her continued appearance” in the Star Wars franchise. Read more… Source: io9
When DC Rebirth kicked off, Batman found the blood-dripped badge of the Comedian embedded in the wall of the Batcave, leaving him very confused but confirming to us that the world of Watchmen was coming to the DC universe. Since…
This month marks 25 years since Doreen Green entered the world of Marvel Comics as Squirrel Girl, although her true road to becoming one of the greatest Marvel heroes around didn’t really begin until her excellent series Unbeatable Squirrel Girl…
Travelers features an icky, insidiously clever form of going undercover: agents from 100 years in the future take up residence in people living in the present’s bodies. It makes things morally complicated. Like when a heroin junkie watches a man…
Sneezing is set off by many different things. Tina Franklin / Flickr Aside from allergies, you can sneeze at seemingly random things. I sneeze every time I start chewing a piece of gum. It happens to other people whenever they look at…
Misao Okawa, Japan’s oldest woman, lived past her 117th birthday. Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images Japan is redefining aging — literally. Members of the Japanese Gerontological Society, a group of medical doctors and university professors, have proposed changing the threshold for “elderly”…
Octavia Butler’s Dawn, along with the rest of the Xenogenesis series, is regularly taught in college classrooms, but you don’t need to have it on your syllabus to enjoy it for $2 on Kindle. Read more… Source: io9
Late last weekend, semi-pro photographer Timothy Joseph Elzinga woke up in the early hours of the morning to attend to his crying two-year-old son. When he looked out the window, he was greeted with a rare and spectacular sight known…
We’ve known for awhile that American Horror Story would return for a seventh season. Today came the news that Ryan Murphy’s anthology horror show has received two more seasons on top of that. Read more… Source: io9
