When most people think of science fiction/fantasy writers the usual names that pop up are Octavia Butler, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, and, of course, Ursula K. Le Guin. Today Mrs. Le Guin celebrates her 85th birthday. For 85 years we’ve been lucky to have this wonderfully talented woman grace us with her writing.
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Did you know?: Before Law & Order, Dann Florek lived in the Galapagos. There’s an inherent problem with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit addressing specific issues in an episode. The show is awful at original stories, and the “ripped from the headlines” formula especially grates when they decide to try out something completely unrelated
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Producer Beth tries (and Fails) to fill Kip’s shoes in this very special after-school episode of Can We Just Be Friends? Skinner promotes the new Facebook Group and announces a new contest with a choose-your-own-adventure prize!
It’s important to address Halloween when doing horror columns in October. After all, without it there’d be no connotations between the month and the genre. Divorced from Halloween, October is when a bunch of fucking teams you hate advancing in the MLB playoffs and increasingly irritating weather (woo Wisconsin!). When it came to choose a
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A little background for those of you who don’t know, the show is based on a book (or series of books) by Diana Galbadon, click here for more info. So the story centers around Claire Beauchamp Randall (Fraser) and begins just after WWII. She and her husband Frank Randall have spent the last 5 years
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