Here’s a short video of what it looked like in my neighbourhood. How’d the day go for you?
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Penguicon 2023
The MI crossover event– SF, tech, makers, writing, Open Source, and more– continues to return, post-pandemic.
Al Jaffee dead at 102
The Reuben Award-winning cartoonist, best known for his work with Mad magazine, has died at the age of 102. Jaffee will be remembered for the Mad Fold-ins, ridiculous magic tricks, and Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions– which makes me wonder what he said when someone asked him to what he owed his long life.
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Newspace
A Martian equivalent of Google Earth (with fewer pranksters), and some SF-seeming stories about dogs and pigs and, of course, con-going cosplayers, feature in this holiday Newspace. Links below:
Artemis 2 has its crew….
…and they should be heading around the moon in November of 2024. The first crew to go further than low-earth orbit since 1972 includes…
Movie Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
I’ve been a fan of Michelle Yeoh’s work for years, and this is a film that really lets her showcase every aspect of her skill as an actor. If she doesn’t get a Best Leading Actress nomination at the Academy Awards for this role, she will have been robbed.
–Alex
Alex rhapsodized about this film when it came out, and Blaine put it at the top of his “to watch” list. But we’ve never reviewed the multi-award-winning, groundbreaking megahit, so here’s a belated look at the film that ruled the 2023 Academy Awards.
Science Round-up, 2023
The James Webb Telescope continues to bring the universe closer to us, but there have been other and even bigger science stories this year. Click below for a few of these. They’re more hopeful than much of the rest of the news.
R.I.P., Aline Kominsky Crumb
Aline Kominsky Crumb, a major figure in the Underground Comix movement, died November 29, 2022, at the age of 74.
She is survived by her husband, Robert Crumb and their daughter Sophie, also comix artists of note.
Book Review: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
After I killed my wife, I had twenty hours before her new body finished printing downstairs.
Kim Fu, rising literary star (For Today I am a Boy, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore), has written a collection of short stories that mostly fall into SF/fantasy/horror genres, reminiscent of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror.
October Countdown: Nope (2022)
The night is upon us! The finale of our haunted Halloween Countdown, 2022, features two very different productions. We start with summer’s super, sinister hit.
The 2022 hit film features a pair of animal-wrangling siblings, a goofy tech guy, an old-school cinematographer, and the troubled manager of a roadside attraction. This disparate adult Scooby gang becomes embroiled in an otherworldly mystery out in the California desert.
It’s a little reminiscent of Spielberg, except you don’t want to look up in awe at the sky.
Nope.