Alright Sports Fans, Anexandros here, doing my Brony blog about my interactions with the ponyboys. As y’all may not be aware yet, I am taking the Brony Challenge to watch the first season so I can “Hate Smart”. So I made a mistake in my attempt to know more. I [...]
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I might make it through this challenge today. I got out of bed, and said the words, “I get to finish the first season today.” My Significant other responded, “How good do you think the second season will be?” Before I could stop myself, I uttered the phrase, “So far it is not bad.” Did [...]
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Alll right Sports Fans. It is Anexandros back for day 2 of the Brony dare Challenge. I was initially going do an extra article by seeing the newly refurbished model of the Enterprise Shuttlecraft Galileo at my local Johnson Space Center. They are housing it in a permanent exhibition on the influences on the road [...]
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All right Sports Fans. I have a couple friends who have thrown down a gauntlet. Normally when I take a dare, the sucker is humiliating, but rarely does it hit the net. This time, the net is the dare. They dare me to watch at least a season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic [...]
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1. Who is the Character? River Tam, the little Sister of Simon Tam, from the television show Firefly (2002) and the film Serenity (2005). For those who are unfamiliar with Firefly or Serenity, you can read my previous blog entry Serenity: Take me out to the Black. 2. What is her role/career in the [...]
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Strong Female
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Contestants needed for Trivia Challenge at Coppercon Revolution August 10. On August 10, 2013 Coppercon Revolution at Windemere Hotel in Mesa, Arizona is going to host the very first Land of Nerds trivia challenge. Teams of three will compete in a live, web-streamed game show, broadcast on http//www.landofnerds.com on a larger-than life game show set. [...]
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1. Who is the character? Jadzia Dax is the Science officer on Deep Space Nine from Season 1-Season 6. A joined Trill, Jadzia is a young woman who is conjoined with a symbiont, the Dax. Prior to the beginning of Deep Space 9, the Dax had been joined with eight different Trill, 3 female, 5 [...]
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One thing I often find when I’m reading about Sci/Fi or Fantasy novels, television shows, movies, et cetera, is the discussion of how Sci Fi and Fantasy produces Strong Female Characters!” However, what methods do we use to determine the strength of a female character? Who makes the list, and who doesn’t? Who shouldn’t make [...]
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As I start a new dungeon crawl this weekend, I am reminded of my first exposure to dungeon crawling with a party. The movie Goonies is by Richard Donner, the same guy who brought us the Lethal Weapon Series (1987-98), Scrooged (1988), Ladyhawke (1985),The Toy (1982), Omen (1976), and Maverick (1994). I accept that the [...]
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This year, from August 2-4, 2013, this blogger and Anexandros, our film critic, will attend Spaces City Con in Houston. This will be the second Space City Con, and already, this Convention is drawing quite a buzz of popularity and some amazing special guests! Special guests this year include: Jewel Staite (Firefly’s Kaylee Fry) Sylvester [...]
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On a previous post, I talked about my tabletop role-playing game experience and some of my favorite characters from the various table-top RPGs I have played. Since another, long established part of my gaming experience also consists of live action role playing games (LARP), I should probably discuss live action role playing. Just like in table-top [...]
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I am deeply saddened upon hearing the news of the passing of Canadian actor Corey Monteith. For those who don’t know who this fantastic young actor was, Corey, 31, played “Finn” on the television show “Glee!” for its first four seasons. Corey was found dead in his Vancouver Hotel room Saturday afternoon when he failed [...]
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When I was young, I heard about tabletop role playing games (RPGs) in hushed tones. Dungeons and Dragons was ‘evil.’ The people who played it were actually all Satanic devil-worshipers who were using real magic spells to drive their friends to suicide. People pretend to be thieves and wizards, evil things, and become so in [...]
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I love films that make us cry, I love films that make us laugh, but horror films for some reason rarely resonate with me. I just am not a fan of red karo and absolutely gratuitous bloodbaths built solely to give the actors a messy wardrobe. So when horror films [...]
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Since True Blood Season 6 is partway underway, I thought I’d take this blog to discuss the show, the Southern Mysteries (also called the “Sookie Stackhouse novels” and what I like about the phenomenon in general. I first learned about True Blood when I worked at Blockbuster Video. HBO did something really cool prior to the launch of [...]
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A list of questions posed by Gerda Lerner to aid in the study of Women's History/
Where and who are the missing women?
What did they contribute to American history? To community work and reform movements?
What did women do while the men were doing what the textbook tells us was important?
How did women live?
How did women define the issue?
What was the female experience?
How was it different for women?
How is gender defined in a given period?
Who defined wome
Hundreds from the Dune Sea Garrison of the 501st Legion are descending on Phoenix Comiccon this weekend. These Storm Trooper Bad-asses are “Bad Guys Doing Good,” said Joe LaFortune, Commanding Officer of the Garrison. “We are part of a worldwide costuming club with a focus on the bad guys.” Even members from New Mexico attended.Here ...
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