Mars needs … Christians? Red Planet Mars
Back in the 1980s, conservatives began holding up the 1950s as a utopia. A peaceful, united nation full of happy nuclear families resembling 1950s sitcoms (mom at home, dad at …
Category: Movies
Genres and subgenres we hate
As this weekend proved less congenial to blogging than I’d expected (dog-sitting for a friend’s pups), here’s a question of the week instead: is there a genre or sub-genre of …
The Aliens Are Here Is Here!
In other words, the author’s copies of my book, The Aliens Are Here, just showed up at my house.Yeah, somehow I didn’t capture my name under the illustration (from 2008’s …
Dying is easy. Indexing is hard.
So early last month my publisher, McFarland, sent me the PDF containing the edited manuscript for The Aliens Are Here. My mission: check it for any errors that slipped through, …
The Sidelining of MCU Moms
As much as I’ve loved the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it has always had its share of issues, primarily the focus on only one type of hero–white, straight, and male. As …
