Author Archives: JD DeLuzio

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But don’t get your hopes up too high, Pluto:

Fomulhaut B may be a planet after all. Its return from the dead has inspired NASA to make a Halloween-themed video about the finding:

That’s a small piece of history, a giant’s hand these did sign:

Neil Armstrong-related memorabilia is up for bid.

Keep watching the skies:

We have strange apparitions in the Canadian Maritime skies, but these flying objects aren’t necessarily unidentified.

This weekend also sees Atlantic Canada hosting Hal-Con. News coverage appears here, and a fan video below, along with some news from the International Space Station, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic…

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Halloween Review: Sinister

The footage is grainy Super 8. A family of four, mom and dad and the kiddies, stand with hands tied behind their backs and bags over their heads. Nooses tighten ’round their necks; the other end of the rope attaches to the old tree in the back yard. A large limb counterbalances them; when an unseen hand saws it off, the fine folk lift off the ground, struggling against strangulation.

The family had a fifth member, a little girl. She remains missing….

In this media-saturated culture, it’s damnably difficult to produce a game changer, something genuinely fresh in horror. Sinister doesn’t really try, though it brings its own twisted mix to the genre, blending conventional and found footage horror. What it really succeeds in doing…

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Arrow Discussion

In the first two episodes, the Pilot and “Honor Thy Father,” Ollie has returned from that desert island with flashbacks, met some version of his traditional supporting cast, taken up the costume, killed some people, and pulled a Bruce Wayne, convincing the public he’s an irresponsible doofus.

We missed reviewing these, but we might catch up with this week’s ep.

Meanwhile, here’s a place to let your comments about Arrow fly.

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Keep watching the skies!
The annual Orionid Meteor Shower peaks tonight, October 20. Find out where and how you can observe it

Act now. Supplies are limited.
Want one of Endeavour’s “Shuttle Crossing” signs? They’re up for sale.

Must be that plasma it had for lunch:
This week the sun left fly a massive solar prominence.

Who’s going to be seeing this? Not Me!
The season has brought some terrifying films before, but I suspect nothing will be quite so soul-disturbing as this film, now in preproduction.

All agents are reminded that there is no official S.H.I.E.L.D sponsored pool on the number of times Mr. Stark will be required to take the sexual harassment seminar in a given month.

If you still haven’t seen the hilarious Memos from Nick Fury site, settle in and start scrolling.

Nerdy video below– and some comic-book news for trendy perverts:

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Geronim…. Holy *%!#!!!!!!

As I’m certain we all know by now, Felix Baumgartner successly dove from the edge of space and broke the sound barrier, the first person to do so without a vehicle, on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the first breaching of that barrier.

People there have very even tans.

Astronomers announce the discovery of a planet with four suns.

So Sheldon Cooper is right?

The brains of the autistic savant appear to be signficantly and measurably different than the norm.

Will they name it the “Om Nom Nom” Basin?

This crater on Mercury looks like a certain resident of Sesame Street.

You get that there junk-heap offa yer front lawn!

Endeavour has arrived at its new museum home.

You know, the one that’s still about comics?

Below: Video of Baumgartner’s dive, and some awesome cosplay from this weekend’s New York Comic-Con.

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Halloween Review: Frankenweenie (2012)

Tim Burton first made this film in 1984, as a darkly whimsical, live-action short for Walt Disney. Disney executives disliked the result– reviewed today by Blaine–, which they considered too frightening for children. They shelved plans to play the film before the rereleased Pinocchio, though the original “Frankenweenie” did accompany some showings of Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. They also let go of the young director. Years later, with Burton established as a brilliant (though wildly uneven) crafter of darkly whimsical films, Disney decided to give him another chance. This time he used stop-motion animation. The result, while not perfect, succeeds, a stitched-together monster of a movie with a likeable heart

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Planets are a girl’s best friend:
A U.S./French team has discovered a planet, twice the size of the earth, made from diamonds.

Kind of an anti-climax after the diamond story:
Curiosity has fixed its gaze on a rock entirely unlike any other previously identified on Mars.

Pics or it didn’t happen:
Check out these photos of SpaceX Dragon’s flight to the International Space Station. (Video appears after the cut).

Cthulhu is a pirate!
A single giant eyeball washed ashore in Florida this week.

Well, that explains Paul Broun:
Crossbreading between Neandertals and the more familiar sort of human carried on longer than we previously thought.

Atomic tease!
Once again, we have a development that makes tantalizing but uncertain promises about energy from fusion.

Reddit may not be carrying this story:
Their biggest troll and creator of the now-defunct “jailbait” subreddit has been outed by Gawker.

Video follows. Some of it may even be interesting.

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