These are my top ten Valentine’s Day cards you can give while maintaining your self-respect and general contempt for this dumb ass holiday.
Full Story »Top 5 Geek Changes Since 2007
Seems like these days a woman can barely start a scholarly discussion about self-objectification and Leia’s metal bikini without a slew of other women accusing her of slut shaming.
Full Story »Top 5 Things I’ve Learned from Pink Raygun
When I pay attention, sometimes I learn things. These are my top five things I’ve learned with Pink Raygun since launching in 2007. Why, yes, there ARE zombies.
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Fabulous Sci-fi for 2012
I want to go to this place where everything is turquoise and there are metal skeleton horses, robot dogs and robot teddy bears.
Full Story »Top 5 Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2012
Including the end of the world, which I expect to be about as anti-climactic and lame as Y2K, Harold Camping, and Roland Emmerich’s 2012.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: The Big Picture
Tackling it one show at a time like I did made me feel pretty hopeful. More wrinkles! Lower concentrations of white people! Hooray! HOWEVER….Looking at them all at once shows something different.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: Movies
Having looked at female characters on network (young, mostly white) and cable television (less young, less white), let us now turn our attention to women in 2011;s biggest movie releases.
Full Story »Fictional Femmes 2011: Cable
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 »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 »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 »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.
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A Muppet Version of Me
At FAO Schwartz, you can turn yourself into a Muppet. Or you can just create your own wackadoo Muppet, but it’s way more fun to Muppetize yourself and the ones you love.
Full Story »Mayor Bloomberg the Merciless
Haven’t we invaded countries for this sort of thing? And this is going on in Manhattan? Does that make Mayor Bloomberg the leader of a rogue state, now? It’s like he’s been watching Flash Gordon and taking notes on how Ming the Merciless runs things.
Full Story »A Little Bit of Samwise
Lately, I’ve had to be like Ghostbusters. I’ve had to be like Ellen Ripley. Now, I’m being Samwise Gamgee.
Full Story »Be Like Ghostbusters
Sometimes, inspirational words aren’t enough. Sometimes you just have to cross the streams and hope for the best. Hopefully, someone will bring marshmallows.
Full Story »Sexy Costumes: The Manly Edition
I know your dilemma, guys. You want to pay homage to your favorite geek stuff with your Halloween costume, but you want to be sexy, too. I see you there gazing at the wall of masks on the comic shop, wondering, “Can I be sexy and still be a geek?”
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