The Crotchety Old Fan

Why align myself with Norman amidst all of the abuse, hate, villification, hubris or whatever you want to call the recent spate of overly loud umbrage?
Because the guy just does not give a good goddamned flying fuck at a rolling donut what someone else is going to think about what he says, that’s why.
If he [...]

I just submitted my ballot: I only made four choices for novel, a couple of short stories, one movie (dramatic, long form), a couple of fanzines and fan writers, two short story nominations, one novelette nomination and one fan artist nomination.
My finger is purple.
Make yours purple if you’re eligible and haven’t submitted a ballot [...]

Here’s (most of) the list of “genre” (sf, fantasy, horror) winners and nominees of most of the categories awards are given out for.
Music remains to be handled (best, mixed, editing, etc), as do shorts, but this is the bulk of it.
You may agree or disagree with some of the films I’ve included or excluded: [...]

Where did that expression come from? Why not As sick as a really, really sick person?
Regardless. Whatever mammal you insert – that’s how ill I am right now with some kind of upper-respiratory crud that started last night and has me feeling very loopy right now (like my sinuses are squeezing my brain).
Therefore, [...]

Icing on the cake?  It doesn’t win best director either.  Icing flowers on the cake?  BOTH awards go to Cameron’s ex-wife for The Hurt Locker (a far, far, far superior film:  Hurt Locker actually has WRITING behind it, originality behind it AND characters that weren’t cut out of animation cells for Disney’s Pocahontas.
Seems kinda strange [...]

DailyKos has just started a weekly ‘Geek view’ posting. The first episode unfortunately starts off with the usual carnival barker draw – look at the geeks! look at the geeks! by mentioning the golden age of SF (12 years old) and emphasizing the balance of Sturgeon’s equation (an award to the first quasi-mainstream outlet [...]

It’s not just (bad) science fiction films.
Anyone else out there writing business plans?  If so, you know what a headache it can be.  Spreadsheets, resumes, competitor analysis, marketing plans…just typing those things is making my fingers AND ears bleed.
Important stuff, but unfortunately not entirely unlike college English class thesis.  Lot’s and lots of high quality [...]

Sci Fi? Did he just stick Sci Fi in a post title? OMG! Something must be terribly, terribly wrong over there!
Yes, I did just use Sci Fi – but there’s nothing wrong. I haven’t gone over to the dark side and my brain has not been taken over by Kahn’s earwigs [...]

Gary Wolf – author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit (basis for the acclaimed Who Framed Roger Rabbit film) and Space Vulture (TOR, reviewed here has just announced that his 1975 novel – KILLERBOWL – is available for .99 cents as a Kindle e-book.

The novel features a different version of the 2010 Superbowl – a game [...]

Starring Harry Belafonte, WFD was one of the first “post apocalyptic” films I ever saw. Produced in 1959, the flick begins with Belafonte trapped in a coal mine, which explains why he escapes the “atomic poison” that wipes out the rest of the world.
I’ve been looking for this flick intermittently for ages and finally [...]