Category: screens & pages

When I watch or read or play something worth writing about, you may find those writings here.

  • book reviews: simple sci fi

    book reviews: simple sci fi

    All my great intentions for reading in 2026 have manifested in the way of man whose eyes are too big for his stomach. In my case, my reading appetite has bitten off a few large portions and I find myself already well into March and not having completed much of anything. It is not for

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  • film: scott pilgrim vs the world

    film: scott pilgrim vs the world

    My long and frustrating quest for an Actually Good Movie Critique Podcast has been (temporarily) achieved. After nudging through an uncounted dearth of film discussion pods that seem more interested in trying to make jokes at a movie’s expense while doing little more than a basic rehashing the plot than actually discussing the film itself,

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  • media: winter science fiction-ing

    media: winter science fiction-ing

    I haven’t been much of a television watcher these last ten years or so, but I do hunt down good science fiction when I can and enjoy a good speculative romp through the clever landscapes of surrealism and technology mashed together. Fantastic creatures, galactic politics, or philosophical swirls through the soul, it all nabs me

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  • carey christmas

    carey christmas

    What did you want this year … and get? Drew. Oh, don’t get me wrong. Santa was pretty generous this year as usual, and even before Christmas morning I had tallied a long list of random things I’ve picked up along the way this past year, new toys, new tools, and travel souvenirs. But when

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  • book reviews: on down the river

    book reviews: on down the river

    September may be the end of summer reads, but no doubt that I am still trudging through a reading list longer than I care to admit. My lack of completed tomes this last few weeks has less to do with the quantity of reading I am going and more to do with my ability to

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