From the monthly archives:

October 2010

Not Chess, Mr. Spock. Poker.

October 30, 2010

I could swear that I heard a solitary snort-laugh from the crowd at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear today when John Stewart made a reference to corbomite – the fictional substance Kirk makes up on the spot in order to bluff Balok in the classic Season One episode of Star Trek, The Corbomite [...]

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Sipping on the Slusho!verse

October 29, 2010

The next time you clasp your hands against your skull as the result of an excruciating brain freeze brought on by downing an ice-cold Slusho! too quickly, take comfort in the knowledge that the euphoric effects of the “Deep Sea Ingredient” will soon kick in to mitigate your suffering.
The Deep Sea Ingredient is, of course, [...]

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The Simpsons – Basically

October 18, 2010

Reductionist Simpsons.

Original artist unknown.

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Heinz is Pure

October 15, 2010

Filmmaker and close friend, D. M. Pelley, informed me in 2007 that he was creating a short for the Heinz Top This TV Challenge, a contest in which the public was invited to submit their own homemade Heinz Ketchup commercials for a grand prize of $57,000 to the winning entry. I was amused to [...]

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Haunted Pixels

October 14, 2010

Ashley Anderson’s art really pushes my buttons.

This painting is called Personal Photos. It blends and overlaps several of my conceptual fixations, such as art-within-art, pixelated images, and the act of spotlighting the collateral of the digital world – in this case, the default Facebook avatar.
It has a quality of degraded resolution that suggests a [...]

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Natape: A Serious Drink. Probably.

October 13, 2010

For those following NBC’s new series, The Event:  Did the 2.23 second shot (yes, I timed it) of this bottle of scotch strike you as odd?   Michael Buchanan shares this bottle with Sean Walker, describing it as “a serious drink”, and “very rare stuff”.
Hmm.  Anyone wanna start placing bets on the future significance of [...]

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Notarealthingium

October 13, 2010

Because of our obsessive nature, we geeks are tireless curators, petrified at the idea that some inane concept or story element will be brought into existence without being bagged, tagged, and duly entered into a comprehensive database.
Exibit A:

Illustrator and painter, Russell Walks, decided that the sci-fi community has been willy-nilly about the categorization of imaginary [...]

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Hypothetical Development

October 9, 2010

As of the moment I’m writing this, the Hypothetical Development project is a mere $90 away from it’s funding goal of $3,900.  I urge any readers with some loose change on their credit cards to pitch in a couple of  bucks to push this really neat project over the finish line.
From the Hypothetical Development website:

Members [...]

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2011 Mediocrity

October 4, 2010

“This car is an exact replica of a car”
- Marilyn Reiter, Senior VP of Worldwide Product Development, Mediocrity Motor Company

The anticipation is at room temperature for the 2011 Mediocrity to hit the evenly-paved streets this month. With options such as ”Windshield” and “Hubcap”, and a palette of colors that includes “Medium Crumb” and “Stale Biscuit”, [...]

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