Posts by Ryan Livingston
Fortnight Tonight – 10-07-2005
First podcast from the NWOt. Serenity, Stand Your Ground, Spanish Flu, and Ronnie Barker.
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Travel back in time to 2002: A bold new show premiered on FOX. After only 13 out-of-order episodes (the pilot show last), the plug was pulled. The show was Firefly. Three years later – redemption. Universal bought the rights after record DVD preorder numbers and gave the show’s creator, Joss Whedon, the greenlight to make…
Read MorePortuguese Irregular Verbs
The Premise Now before you balk, Portuguese Irregular Verbs isn’t a text book. Well, it is, but not in real life. It is the opus of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld – a very pompous, very German, philogist. The novel Portuguese Irregular Verbs, by Alexander McCall Smith, is a collection of misadventures staring Igelfeld supported…
Read MoreThe Muppet Show: Season 1
For years, when kid themed stations sporadically showed The Muppets, it wasn’t all there. Any episodes from season 1 began with later season’s opening montages (which is a shame, because Fozzy warmed up the audience before the show), and not all episodes were shown either (any star who faded from pop culture by the time…
Read MoreThe Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Unlike most geeks, I read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy late in life – 24. But I read it and I was glad. Then I learned Douglas Adams was no longer with us, and I wasn’t so glad anymore. Then I heard he’d been working on a screenplay that would be made into a…
Read MoreSalmon of Doubt
The Premise In September of 2001, the Earth lost a great talent to a heart attack. Soon after, Douglas Adams’ armada of Apple computers were ransacked and the result is Salmon of Doubt, a collection of snippets, letters and magazine articles Douglas had written over the years. The title comes from the constantly in progress…
Read MoreThe Killers – Hot Fuss
When I first heard the song Somebody Told Me, the bubblegum angst anthem with the chorus “somebody told me you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfriend I had in February of last year…” caught my ears. Not because the line spoke volumes of the current dating scene. Nor was it that because it…
Read MoreGood News For People Who Like Bad News
I only heard of Modest Mouse recently, much like most of America I’m sure. They’ve been around for some time and making at least ten albums; however, they traveled the independent circuit thrusting them into underground obscurity. It’s a shame really, because if Good News For People Who Love Bad News is any example of…
Read MoreThe Penitent Retailer
At last I am employed. Employed somewhere where I didn’t get the job defaulted to me because of kin. I am now… in retail. The commercial world. And in an office supply chain, capitalism is definitely the motto. I will, eventually, be working in the desktop publishing center where my skills can finally be realized…
Read MorePine Terry Salad
Well, tha holidays ‘ave come ‘n’ gone. An’ wouldncha know at, I gained a few pounds ’round tha ol’ kilt. So I’ve been put on a diet, yeah? But ets nay so bad, ay? Neh bad. An’ to ‘elp out all ye who’ve eaten a wee too much haggis thas season, I’ve come up with…
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