(From the Head of the Q.U. Crypto-Musicology Department) There are so many things to mock about your average Fantasy movie. For some reason, movie studios have traditionally treated Fantasy films on about a level with porn (and slightly below homemade horror movies) in terms of plot, acting, dialogue, costuming, puppets, wigs, gratuitous nudity, men…
(From the head of the Q.U. Marketing Team) Trying to find print Speculative Fiction magazines outside the ethernet is quite a challenge. They are not generally available anywhere but in major bookstore chains, and even there they are well hidden. Consider: This is an example of specfic magazine placement in Barnes and Nobles, tucked back…
(From the head of the Q.U. Crypto-Gameology Department)My game review of Fallout 3 and Fable 2 is up at Fantasy Magazine. For those like myself who feel guilty after spending time playing a game instead of on more productive pursuits or, heck, interacting with other humans, how might you justify to yourself and others the…
As noted in the Fantasy Magazine "Fantasy Friday Blog for a Beer," Obama has been named President of the Marvel Universe. As the (unofficial) self-appointed Spec-Fic Community Outreach Representatives for Obama, I would like to release the following (completely unauthorized) victory speech on behalf of President-elect Barack Obama: My fellow Universians, We stand at…
Steampunk is a fine example of a semi-mainstream trend in fashion and technology that developed hand in hand with a similar trend in fantasy literature. Here are some trends inspired by fantasy literature that a few brave souls tried out, but sadly failed to inspire a large-scale following. HERALDPUNK – Inspiration: Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar novels. …
(From "Current Jaffairs Magazine" Special Jaffa Reporter) It seemed our struggle was nearly over, brothers and sisters. The system lords Bush and Cheney were on their way out, and there was hope that the terrible destruction they have wrought on our people would soon be addressed and undone. For although they had somehow…
(From the Head of the Q.U. Crypto-Political Sciences Department) Look at this Ad for McDonalds. It features a young female of indeterminate ethnicity, and the taglines: "Discover a career that fulfills your potential." And "It’s not just a job, it’s a career." Okay, first of all, I have no wish to imply that…
From the Head of the Q.U. Crypto-Visual Media DepartmentWarner Brothers is suing a Bollywood film company because the title of their film is ‘Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors.’ And Warner Bros. thinks that name is too much like Harry Potter. Seriously. Yet the film has nothing to do with wizards or magic. It is…
From the Q.U. Crypto-Journalism Department: Note: The following article was inspired by the Earth17a-reality events reported on via the ethernet here at BoingBoing.net. This just in: A man was holed up in his New Jersey home wielding what police officials referred to as “one of those giant knife thingy’s from Star Trek,”…
Internal Memo from the Head of the Q.U. Crypto-Zoology Department As you may have heard, the frozen Bigfoot found in the U.S. was “revealed” to be a hoax – just a gorilla suit frozen in a block of ice. The Ethernet article to which the link above jumps to also mentioned, however, that the two men…