Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are almost done reading the submissions for their
second steampunk anthology, which will focus much more on stories from the
past decade as opposed to classic tales. And they're noticing some big
changes in the make-up of steampunk lit. Writes Jeff VanderMeer:
The
I think that they just ran out of steam and didn't have a well thought out
story line that would last this long. They stopped doing all of the cool
things that attracted people to the show. It was as if they changed the
format of the show without really changing anything and it broke the show.
I agree. I think that the current Tara (Rutina Wesley
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2179180/bio) is a much better choice. I'm glad
that they found her. I am enjoying her work as well as the work by Nelsan
Ellis (Lafayette http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1734700/ ).
There's a lot of people on the show
I found Thomason quite fetching in Black Knight (2001) and she played a great
character called Nessa Holt on the television series Las Vegas.
On a different tip, I saw a stunning picture of actress Rochelle Aytes in the
March 2010 issue of Esquire. Stunning enough to get to DVR an episode of
We
were dressed and ready to go out for the New Years Eve Party. We
turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered our
pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard.
We phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and we
opened the front door to leave
I was wondering what people thought of this. I watched it on Netflix
instant-play and I am so glad that I didn't add Starz to my lineup just to get
this dreck.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella tdli...@... wrote:
Raimi Brings Sword and Sandals to Starz
It's
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http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=ZnB02zrhcXk
Enjoy!!!
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'When you reach the end of your rope ...
You will find the hem of His garment'
Let your praises to the Lord be the soundtrack of your life.
The show has improved a bit since the first episode. They've toned down some of
the 300 style flourishes in the last couple of episodes. The pit fighting
episode awesome.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, marian_changling md_moor...@... wrote:
I was wondering what people thought of this. I
http://blackplush.blogspot.com/2010/02/shutter-island-begins-with-woozy-sea.html
Shutter Island begins with a woozy, sea-sick U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels
(Leonardo DiCaprio) and neither he nor the audience will gain their equilibrium
for the next two hours and twenty minutes. Martin Scorsese's
Hello Everyone,
I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself before. My name is Tracy. (I'm a
female Tracy) I'm currently living in Madison, WI where I have a university
job. I joined initially because one of my students is working on a project
that involves science fiction, speculative fiction and
Great Review!
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Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:51 AM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [scifinoir2] Shutter Island
Welcome to the room, Tracy! Don't run screaming, please. The rest of the group
will keep me in line. ;-) Enjoy the place, and don't hesitate to speak your
mind in anything.
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Does sound juicy.
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First I'm hearing of it, Mr Worf, and I'm only surprised that it took the
Mossad this long to get him.
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The national news didn't cover it for some reason. Only BBC and PBS
Newshour. They were probably letting him slip into a sense of false security
then did the hit.
This incident is a movie in the making. Or at the minimum a NCIS episode. :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Martin Baxter
That's kind of odd, the lack of mainstream coverage, especially from the
right-leaning news outlets, where Israel is as holy as Jesus Christ.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
I heard about it earlier this week. It's an incredible story. They all used
false European passports to enter Dubai and disappeared after the hit. It's
some Sword of Gideon type stuff.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote:
The national news didn't cover it for
Missed it entirely, Keith. Working again. I'll have to do the online thing. And
it's a shame that the duty of creating fun TV programming has to have fallen
to cable TV.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
Welcome to the group. I hear Madison is nice this time of year...compared to
the Yukon.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote:
Welcome to the room, Tracy! Don't run screaming, please. The rest of the
group will keep me in line. ;-) Enjoy the place, and
Welcome to the group! Glad you stopped lurking! :)
I like your movie choices of Event Horizon and Brother From Another Planet.
Those are two of my fav movies as well. I'm also a big fan of writer/director
John Sayles, who did Brother from Another Planet. Have you seen many of his
other
Anyone get theirs yet?
From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com
To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 3:15:56 PM
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Saying Goodbye to Mother
To quote the old song, How can something so wrong...
Steampunk is edging up into the realm of deriving stories from true Steam
settings (i.e. a future derived from an initial Steam realm), and I couldn't be
happier, because I've been trying my hand at it, unsuccessfully to date because
I'm surprisingly having trouble working within the strict
Maybe I'll give it a second go, then.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: daikaij...@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010
I believe that, Mr Worf. One more scary reality in my head, that...
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From:
They changed my channel line up so I can't watch it anymore.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:31 AM, marian_changling md_moor...@yahoo.comwrote:
I was wondering what people thought of this. I watched it on Netflix
instant-play and I am so glad that I didn't add Starz to my lineup just to
get this
Mr Worf, I grew up in Virginia, and the person who introduced me to hoghead
cheese and tripe was my great-uncle JT, Deity rest him well. He was a farmer,
originally from Mississippi, if memory serves, and he brought his mother's
entire cookbook with him when he left home after she passed away,
Hitting the same wall here in Georgia, Mr Worf. Several local counties are
stubbornly unwilling to fork over a lousy 1-cent-hike in sales taxes in the
name of education, but rail at jokes about how Alabama and South Carolina
outclass Georgia in test scores regularly.
If all the world's a
Our news will never report real news about Israel. This is a big story all
over the world including in Israel, but our “free press” is forbidden to cover
such stories. This has been the policy for years.
In fact, NCIS is the only form of “media” in our country that comes close to
That makes me think that there is a conspiracy at work here.
What bothers me more is that Israel seems to be taunting terrorists into
doing stuff. Because you know there will be payback for this.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
That's kind of
My father still eats hoghead cheese on occasion.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
Mr Worf, I grew up in Virginia, and the person who introduced me to hoghead
cheese and tripe was my great-uncle JT, Deity rest him well. He was a
farmer,
I have yet to get into Steampunk stories, but I am really enjoying the
general concept of it and the clothing. I love the idea of an alternate
reality using such devices. Can you imagine how different the world would be
if we had such things as mechanical televisions?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at
I feel the same way you do. I like the concepts but most of the stuff I've read
never grabs me. I really tried to get into Cherie Priest's Boneshaker but
something about it didn't click for me.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote:
I have yet to get into
This made me think about all of the terrible things that our country has
done in our best interests.
You know, what would be interesting is if there was a show that focused on
the happenings that other governments do.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Tracey de Morsella
I was watching an old ep of No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain a few weeks
ago, and he was in France, watching hogshead cheese being made. Don't know who
was drooling more, him or me. :-)
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director?
Frankly, I'm still trying to get a handle on this administration's policy
toward Israel is. Sometimes, it seems as though they want to hold their feet to
the fire, and times when it wants to be Israel's caddies.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell
He loves him some pork. Dude said that he was seriously considering moving
to asia after he found a place that made honey roasted pork. I do have to
admit that the place looked beautiful. :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
I was watching an old
Welcome Tracy! Great to have some more Wisconsin blood on the list!
~rave!
http://www.theworldebon.blogspot.com/
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@... wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself before. My name is Tracy. (I'm a
female Tracy) I'm
I saw it and liked it quite a bit. This season was fun but not as fresh as last
year. I think they need to shake things up a little more in the next season.
i'd love to see the mirror Leverage team again or a similar team headed by Wil
Wheaton's character.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com,
Still haven't made it to the comics store yet. If you do, one question -- is
Reed Richards in position to kick much metal a$$?
Martin (begging for a 'yes')
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
I'm still waiting for Boneshaker to free itself from Queue Heck at the
library. (A close friend read it and raved on it for weeks.) My first
introduction to Steampunk (as was pretty much everyone else in SF) was Gibson
and Sterling's The Difference Engine. And, like many in the genre, it
He's got my dream job. Travel and eat and talk about it.
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Mr Worf, a series of novels by L.E. Modessitt, Jr, his Ghost Cycle
(http://www.lemodesittjr.com/ghost_books/index.html, with apologies for the
lack of hyperlinking from ths craptastical e-mail service), posits a Steam
world in which TVs are called ghostvids, because their displays are so
There's a topic for you. Which book or books have you tried to read multiple
times but just haven't managed to finish?
For me it is Stephen King's The Stand. I tried to read and finish it 9
times.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
I'm still
It’s not a conspiracy. It is a policy in part. Some leaders in Israel
acknowledge that Israel kind of runs the US. Media is not allowed to openly
report of the news in Israel. Since they did away with rules that
prevented a few owners of media, Most mainstream press is controlled by a
Comcast has placed a bunch of black history videos On Demand. There's about
40 documentaries and also the entire Roots series in the Top Picks section
under Black History.
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Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity!
Mahogany at:
Its almost as if Israel is friends with the US but they have enough dirt on
us to blackmail us into doing things.
Sort of like going to Vegas with your buddies and they take pictures of you
drunk making out with a transsexual. Whatever happens in Vegas... Lol! :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:13
They do want to hold their feet to the fire, but it is a well known fact by
most politicians that going up against Israel is considered political
suicide. The only glimmer of hope is that there is a large minority of
powerful Jews that do not agree with Israel's current policies toward
B, there are ten things in this life I'm certain of. One is Do not f*ck with
the Mossad.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From:
You forgot The Mossad never forgets
Another quote I heard was God forgives. The Mossad does not.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
B, there are ten things in this life I'm certain of. One is Do not f*ck
with the Mossad.
If all the world's
He's a good writer. I also love his monologues on the show as well. Hmm
lets see. Travel the world, drink and eat exotic food, and get paid for it
too? Yea, I would say that is a dream job. :)
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Martin Baxter
truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote:
He's got my dream
Guess you guys do think I’m paranoid.No response at all. Wow…..
I’m just under deadline and don’t have time to research references. However,
read http://www.haaretz.com/ for a month. It’s a mainstream national media
site in Israel. It covers the news of the US as it applies to
I take everything with a grain of salt. We will never know the entire truth
to any of this stuff.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Tracey de Morsella
tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com wrote:
Guess you guys do think I’m paranoid.No response at all. Wow…..
I’m just under deadline
I think that if time was taken to explain this stuff to folks in a simple
easy to understand way that there would be less problems with issues like
this. Most people don't want to take the time, or actually understand what
they are reading so they fall for the rhetoric.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at
Haaretz is well respected globally and J Street has some serious players behind
it. No one would label either conspiracy nuts.At least you gave me the
courtesy of a response. I get it you think this is the mad raving of an
anti-Semite, so instead of the analytical back and forth we
Thanks for the welcome, everyone. In answer to Keith, I've seen Lone Star,
but not the other movies. In answer to Martin, you don't seem like a scary
bunch. In answer to B Smith and rave, I'm not a Wisconsin native. I moved
here in 2007 for the academic job. It's been interesting. The
Keith,
Have you seen Honeydripper? That is an underrated Sayles gem.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote:
Welcome to the group! Glad you stopped lurking! :)
I like your movie choices of Event Horizon and Brother From Another
Planet. Those are
I feel your pain. I'm a Louisiana native trapped in Iowa. Our winter has been
so horrible that some of my co-workers (natives of Minnesota and the Dakotas)
are bellyaching about it.
Once again welcome to the crew and we'll look forward to seeing you post.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com,
Snow Crash. Stephenson's writing is great but it never really engages me. I
think I'd do better with an audiobook version because I like the story.
William Gibson's Spook Country. I made it through Pattern Recognition but Spook
Country didn't hook me. I liked Walter Jon Williams work in the
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So much of our history is lost to us because we, African-Americans often
don't write the history books, don't film the documentaries, or don't pass
the accounts down from generation to generation.
One documentary now touring the film festival circuit, telling us to
CNN covered it as well. Rick Sanchez was all over it...
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From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:32:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Mossad assassinates leader of the
Yep, most fun stuff on cable. Oh: I forget to mention that Paul Blackthorne of
The Dresden Files had a throwaway part as the big bad guy in the Leverage
finale.
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From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com
To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Remember the short lived TV series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne from
2000? That was a pretty cool show from back when SciFi, Showtime and others
were always giving us cool new scifi. Steampunk personified...
- Original Message -
From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com
To:
You mean the evil Wesley Crusher character that Wheaton turned out to be? That
could be fun. I think the need to write around the brunette's leaving the show
mostly kind of threw the season. You could tell they kind of plugged Jeri Ryan
into the role, and had to change a bit of the team dynamic
The Helliconia book for me: Helliconia Spring, I think. Tried three times,
can't get past the first chapter.
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From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:27:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject:
I agree. There has been some cool shows on showtime (Odyssey 5 for example.)
There were some other shows such as anime and a scifi detective series set
on Mars.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote:
Remember the short lived TV series The Secret
When I was a kid, my mom used to ask me if I wanted to go to Heaven when I
died. It was part of the standard upbringing of act right so you don't go to
Hell upbringing. I used to say all the time, Yes, i want to go to Heaven,
because I want to talk to God.
Mom assumed I meant to worship God
If you ever get another academic opportunity, try to come down here to Atlanta.
Much nicer weather. :)
As for John Sayles' work, it is worth looking up. the man is one of the few
truly indie directors still going...
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From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com
To:
I was either sick or newly unemployed when it hit Atlanta. I seek out all
Sayles movies, but the only theatre in Atlanta to get it was over twenty-five
miles from my house. I put in a mental note to catch it the second weekend
after it arrived and it was already gone!
- Original Message
Quick backstory on such a radical change of locations/environments/cultures?
- Original Message -
From: B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:29:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Intro Tracy,
yeah, that was the time of Odyssey 5, Total Recall 2070, Jake 2.0, and a host
of other good ones. Don't get me started, or we'll having another one of those
posts listing all the shows too soon canceled, from G vs. E. all the way back
to the non scifi but famous Frank's Place.
Tracey and I are
Most frightening of all? I was watching CNN today ,and Rick Sanchez said they
were getting a *lot* of e-mails, Tweets, and Facebook messages from people who
said they understood this guy's feelings. They were quick to say they didn't
agree with his *actions*, but did understand how he felt so
I hear you on that. There's a LOT of stuff that would be interesting to
read. Have you checked out the declassified papers search engine? There's so
much stuff that it can take a life time to read it all.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote:
When I
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Couldn't agree more.
Amy
Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: More Upsetting than Stack's Actions are those who
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Most frightening of all? I was watching CNN today ,and Rick Sanchez said they
were getting a *lot* of e-mails, Tweets, and Facebook
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