To me, Halloween is a classical holiday; not in the spiritual sense of Christmas and Easter, or the familial sense of Thanksgiving, but in that it brings me back to childhood. I’ve always loved a…
Have any of you ever wondered how Halloween became such a popular holiday? Who came up with the idea of people dressing up in costumes for one night, knocking on a stranger’s door, and asking…
With Halloween just around the corner… that cold, gloomy, silent, lonely corner… wait, what are you doing? No! No! Don’t go around that corner! Ahem. Halloween’s less than a week away, and The Sci-Fi Christian…
Toward a Theology for Trick-or-Treating: One Christian’s Perspective (Part 1 of 2)
- October 24, 2011
- Tagged as: Halloween
I first realized some Christians have a problem with Halloween when I wanted to go trick-or-treating dressed as the Devil. I don’t remember exactly what year that was. It had to have been later than…
Watch William Shatner’s New Album Destroy Civilization! (Music Video)
- October 20, 2011
- Tagged as: humor, music, William Shatner
What has Queen’s epic rock hit Bohemian Rhapsody been missing all these years? William Shatner, that’s what. http://youtu.be/1XpfTjLSPVk It’s a little bit Monty Python, a little bit Kubrick’s 2001, and even a little bit Star…
NYCC 2011: Avenge and Assemble!
- October 18, 2011
- Tagged as: Captain America, Comic Con, joss whedon, The Avengers
(Photo courtesy of Sarah Pfeffer) Comic Con: The Avengers Saturday, October 15th, 2011: Day two of our New York Comic Con experience. Sarah and I, along with our friend, Ronnie, decided to wait in line…
Re-Read and RetroView: Richard Matheson’s “Steel”
- October 14, 2011
- Tagged as: Richard Matheson, Steel, The Twilight Zone
I admit: Real Steel was not on my movie-going radar. “A movie based on ‘Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots?’” I thought. “What’s next, a movie based on ‘Battleship?’” (Little did I know…) As it turns…
Remember the saying “Save the cheerleader, save the world,” from the first season of NBC’s Heroes? Remember how captivating that first season was; a television show about super-powered individuals was finally getting it right? Remember…
ABC has just ordered a pilot for a new science fiction series. According to Deadline: It follows a newly-elected President and his top secret “Executive Committee” (a.k.a. Ex-Comm), the government’s covert team of America’s most…
Caveat lector: “TARDIS Talk” treats everything officially aired through the most recent episode as fair game, so here there be spoilers! Domo Arigato, Doctor Roboto Last week, I declared that “wherever Steven Moffat takes us……
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