Omniverse One

Oh man, that was actually really awesome! Those guys are to pop music as Shaun of the Dead is to zombie movies - they do such a good job of parodying/playing with it, they actually end up making a really great example of it. Which reminds me... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6MNc2yCjs&playnext...

Ah. So it's police drama, eh?

Southland. Best cop show on American TV today. Maybe ever. No, I'm not exaggerating.

No reasoning, to elaboration, nothing at all to back that claim up. But if you love me at all (more importantly, if you love cop shows at all) you'll start watching it right now.

Nice I like how you incorporated all the myriad ranger teams into something more like a cohesive whole. I have to admit I'm a little lost on the galactic scale, but hey, it's your cup of tea!

The Rules: Someone posts the title of a fairly well-known speculative fiction franchise of some kind. Just the title, nothing else. The next person writes a no-more-than-five-paragraph pitch for a reboot, re-imagining, or re-something-or-other, holding to the core concepts of the story, themes and w...

Siege, the fact that you have CCR tapes that you still listen to further cements your status as Damn Cool Guy.

Oh, microgravity definitely has it's hazards - the fact that the armorers are working with the constant threat of decapitation by ammo pallet makes them that much more badass. I have to admit to having stolen the idea of hand and head motions controlling the powered armor from Heinlein's Starship Tr...

2 There was a storm crackling and rumbling overhead. It was a kind of storm Avalon had probably never seen in it's natural history, though Knight-Captain Carpathia Jones was not planetologist and couldn't be sure of that. The sky pulsed a strange blue color, not the even, light shade she was used to...

The Minstrel Boy The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone In the ranks of death you will find him; His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him;" Land of Song!" said the warrior bard, "Tho' all the world betrays thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard...

Following in that same vein, Nightwish does the Crimson Tide theme.



I DARE you not to headbang to this.

Incidentally, also really good writing music, as is most of Nightwish, especially the instrumentals.

Exactly. Just wait 'til you see it in use

Whoo boy. Gosely is more of a back-biting bitch than even I anticipated!

This is getting really, really good Siege. I can't wait to see where you're taking this.

KNIGHTS IN POWERED ARMOR A story of the T-K War 1 “Armorers!” the authoritative voice of the Sarge-in-Charge echoed metallically through the prep bay. “Sew 'em up!” Sergeant Solomon Diego settled down in the cracked leather seat that covered the nuclear fission reactor of his Sleipnir suit, popped ...

This one's a bit more mellow, but it's still incredibly fun.



I can't even comprehend a mind that can piece all this together.

Oh sorry man, I lost quite literally everything when my last computer crashed. If I remember the title, I'll let you know, though!

Oh man, if you want mashups... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BguWG1G8g0g DJ Earworm is seriously one of the best mashup artists I've ever encountered. To handle that many tracks and not only make it feel like a cohesive whole, but to make it into something this... I dunno, just this SMILE-INDUCING!...

Happy happy birthday Shroomz, you corsair of the internet.

House passes Healthcare bill. Now if we could just switch over to the metric system, the U.S. will finally be able to call itself a First World country again.

Oh man, I love Portishead. Great quietly angry music. Mourning Air is probably my favorite at the moment. Have you by chance heard of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble? They're not EXACTLY trip-hop, but they've got sort of the same feel to it. Video's kinda questionable, but its for one of them bett...

The last few years have introduced me to trip hop, and the kings and queens of trip hop are undoubtedly Massive Attack. You might know them for a little ditty they did for the TV show House. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpluQpyAn8 The above song, Dissolved Girl, is one of the few songs of theirs ...

Updated to add the Community of Ganymede - flag coming soon.

Boobs, I think. At least, that's what my brain defaults to.

The lesson here, I think is this: Stories are just idea delivery systems. Very good ones (the best, I think) and no less wondrous for it, but that is what they are, no more no less. However, if the delivery system fails, what you were trying to deliver fails as well. The story has to work, or your i...

Oh man, I WISH I did.

"Remember, citizens, in the Bragulan Star Empire, DONUTS glaze YOU!"

is the only line from it that I can remember by heart

To my mind, pretentiousness comes when something tries to be deep, or complex, or "challenging" (what the fuck does that even mean? And that's a rhetorical question), and fails. Whether it is wrapped up in opaque symbolism merely for the sake of being artsy, or simply has an undeservedly ...

Said by Warren Ellis, one of my favorite writers of anything. "We're deathly afraid of that stabbing word "pretentious," the word that students use to curse each other's ambition. It's a young person's word, a shortcut-to-thinking word. I'm a big fan of pretension. It means "an a...