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“Reagan in the Machine”
I’ve posted the next story in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer project. In The Red Curse of the Mummy, Ted Orchards joins a family friend, Professor Beames, on an expedition to the Valley of the Kings. The object: to unearth the...
The final Minitel hack, Minitel 2 but no lulz, Shopping, Disc space.
Gita Jackson: I Am Here To Defend The Noble Action Movie From The Classicist Emily Wilson. Wilson being the most recent translator of the Odyssey and also the author of this takedown of Nolan’s movie, confusingly titled The Odyssey ⊕...
British society underwent a seismic change during the 1960’s, and this was reflected in the output from our film industry. Between 1959 and the mid 1960’s, a series of bold and fresh films began to be made which switched focus from the...
Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading a 1965 edition of the 1953 collection E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon, the man who brought you such bizarre utopian visions as "If All Men Were Brothers Would You Let One Marry Your...
Eighteen months ago, I wrote in review of Being John Malkovich: The worst thing a piece of comedy can do is, in the process of not taking itself seriously, forget to take its characters seriously. This film is deeply funny, and deeply...
If I could travel back to 11/25/64, the day I turned 13, to talk with myself, I’d warn him about the dangers of reading science fiction. In the Fall of 1964, I became addicted to science fiction after discovering Robert A. Heinlein. I...
A combined birthday and anniversary celebration involving several pints of Wye Valley Brewey’s excellent "Butty Bach" put paid to any ideas of a morning session yesterday. I was a knackered after the previous two early mornings anyway,...
“So, you beat the Halo demo. Not bad, soldier, not bad at all. But are you ready to take the next step?!” –Avery Johnson When I was in middle school, one of my friends invited me over to try his new Xbox and Halo 2 – we’d largely...
Whilst this photo of mine is not a great image, it is a good image. “A good image is created by a state of grace. Grace expresses itself when it has been freed from conventions, free like a child in his early discovery of reality. The...
I believe the worst thing we've ever been told as creatives is that we have to 'pick a niche'. You have to optimise and focus on that one group of people... Your group of people, like there's this magical circle of people waiting for...
Splatterworld: Rick to Kyoufu no Daiou (“Rick vs. The King of Terror”) is an interesting oddity. The trend of taking action games and turning them into RPGs was not a new one, but would definitely have been a first for the Splatterhouse...
A strange thing happens when you press Enter on an empty item in a list in most text editors – the entire list item disappears: This feels counterintuitive. Isn’t Enter for committing and adding more things? Wouldn’t Backspace be the...