Category Archives: TV

The New Yorker does SF, Doctor Who does the Olympics, a rightwing thinktank does Game of Thrones – all that and the German fixed book price agreement, too

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Cora

As already reported, we’re having our annual speculative versus literary fiction discussion, courtesy of The New Yorker, which has designated its current issue “the science fiction issue”. According to the table of contents, “science fiction issue” means a mix of … Continue reading →

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Pentecost Monday Linkdump

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Cora

It’s the long Pentecost/Whitsun weekend in Germany and the long Memorial Day weekend in the US, plus plenty of people seem to be at some con or another, so the Internet has been a bit quiet of late. Nonetheless, I … Continue reading →

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Eurovision goes political and Mad Men goes SF

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Cora

Tonight the final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. The Guardian also has a liveblog from a UK perspective here. Unlike last year, I really did not catch more than a handful of … Continue reading →

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GLBT characters in comics and elsewhere

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Cora

Two days ago, I posted about discussing superheroes with my fifth graders and how some sexual questions came up. The post got a lot of hits, which I put down to the post title, which was obviously search engine bait. … Continue reading →

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The Dumb and the Dead: Watching The Walking Dead

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Cora

The Walking Dead had its somewhat belated German TV premiere tonight. I’m not a zombie fan, so I wasn’t interested enough to seek the show out. But since I had to stay up fairly late anyway to pick up my … Continue reading →

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Yet another interview and a few links

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Cora

First of all, I’m interviewed by Debra L. Martin and David W. Small at Two Ends of the Pen today. Otherwise, I’ve been very busy these past few days, so there hasn’t been a whole lot of blogging going on … Continue reading →

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The original sexy vampire dies – RIP Jonathan Frid a.k.a. Barnabas Collins

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Cora

First of all, the original sexy vampire, Canadian actor Jonathan Frid who played Barnabas Collins on on the gothic soap Dark Shadows in the late 1960s, died aged 87. There is another obituary here. Jonathan Frid had a lot more … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the 2012 Hugo Awards Nominations

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Cora

The nominations for the 2012 Hugo Awards have been announced just in time for Easter with lots of “What the fuck?” nominations mixed in with the good choices. First of all, the good thing is that there are women nominees … Continue reading →

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Back from Yorkshire – and a Linkdump

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Cora

I’m back from Yorkshire. Well, actually I got back yesterday, but I was too tired to blog or do more than catch up with my e-mails. There will be photos in the next few days, but for now here are … Continue reading →

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German TV discovers Furries

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Cora

Tonight I watched Kulturjournal, a cultural program on the North German regional TV station NDR. And among the usual type of report found in this sort of program, presentation of a documentary about unhealthy food, the profile of a controversial … Continue reading →

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