Ragnarok, Doom of the Gods (theater review)
I had never before conceived of the Norns as pinheads with topknots. However, as you can see from the attached picture, the maskmaker and costume director for The Shotgun Players in Berkeley did:...
View ArticleI am Womb, I am Vagina: Women As Roles Rather than Characters
Warning:Â Spoilers for ROME, the recent HBO miniseries One of the ways I rate my enjoyment of books and filmic-visual fiction is in how the roles of women are approached by the writers and/or...
View ArticleComicon International 2008 — Dr. Horrible, The Dark Knight, and me
Back from Comicon. Also back from Westercon. Thoughts…. First off…wow. Comicon was amazing. In over twenty years of attending, Comicon’s managed to outdo itself again, mostly by dint of those who came,...
View ArticleGore Vidal Has Left the Stage 1925 – 2012
Charles McGrath’s New York Times obituary for Gore Vidal calls him “the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American...
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