For a bit more diversity in age, ethnicity, and overall look, cable is the place. Maybe they’re smaller audiences mean they don’t have to automatically default to “teen to mid-twenties, white”.
Full Story »About Alpha-Girl
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Fictional Femmes 2011: Networks
Our yearly Power 100 list, while fun, hasn’t really given me the opportunity to look more critically at what’s going on currently. So, I wanted to take a look at 2011 on its own. Who were the women on our screens? What are they like? How did they behave? Is there a common pattern among them?
Full Story »Revisiting A Special Christmas
As a special holiday gift to you (and because I’m feeling lazy after spending hours compiling next week’s Fictional Femmes of 2011 extravaganza), I’d like to share a a special Christmas story that we originally ran four years ago.
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Books: The Faerie Ring
If you have a Twihard girl in your life, consider giving her The Faerie Ring as a step toward heroine rehabilitation.
Full Story »Star Trek 700: The Cage
I appreciated that the female crew members not only got to wear pants, but also weren’t relegated to the skintight jumpsuits that passed as pants for shapely women in later years (I’m looking at you, T’Pol and Seven of Nine).
Full Story »The Anti-Gift Guide Strikes Back
Not to belabor the topic, but there is just too much awesome stuff out there to purchase for yourself and/or your victims. Oops. I meant family.
Full Story »An Anti-Gift Guide
This is the gift guide that has a bonfire on the beach instead of going to its fascist high school’s prom. This is the gift guide that’s mostly stuff to console yourself with while relatives and family friends ask why you aren’t married/ don’t have kids/ suck so much.
Full Story »Star Trek from the Start
How can I call myself a Trekkie when there are over 700 episodes in existence and I’ve only seen maybe 300 of them? This must be rectified.
Full Story »Once Upon a Time: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
So, there is a simple solution to the Storybrooke problem: everyone in town has to make out with Emma Swan.
Full Story »Killing Cable
I went years without cable because watching a staticky picture was OK with me, even when my leg formed part of the antenna. Now, I’m headed back there.
Full Story »Books: The Thirteen Hallows
This book was the literary equivalent of cheese curls, and not even the good ones. I’m talking dollar store cheese curls that are more orange than orange ever should be and when you open the bag, the scent of giving up wafts up to meet your nose.
Full Story »Once Upon a Time: The Shepherd
King Midas has taken his golden touch his soldiers’ chain mail and, presumably, weapons. No wonder his soldiers couldn’t slay a dragon – they’re armed with the metal equivalent of Jell-O.
Full Story »My Life as Boober
Some red flags should have gone up for someone when the Muppet I most related to was Boober from Fraggle Rock.
Full Story »Letters from a Concerned Zombie: Dear Mitt Romney
Mitt, your relentless trudge forward in the face of tremendous negativity is rather admirable from this Concerned Zombie’s perspective, but you’re embarrassing yourself now.
Full Story »Books: Down the Mysterly River
I wasn’t enthusiastic about this at all. The concept sounded old fashioned, like dusty butterscotch candies. It turned out, however, to be amazing.
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Once Upon a Time: That Still Small Voice
Maybe it was best for all of fairyland residents that the Evil Queen transported them to the really real realm of reality. That bunch was prone to super bad decisions in Fairytale Land.
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