Who on TV?

There're a thousand TV channels out there. Is there one for Doctor Who?

Less of a sauce, more of a glaze

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

New Buffy Movie?

If they have to do a Buffy movie - and really, they don't - I really wish they wouldn't do a Spike spin-off.

Trampoline Bear

I know this has been around for a while but I've never linked it. Oh man. Can't get enough of the trampoline bear video.

This in lieu of the snarky post about how we used to be the ones saying you shouldn't have secret prisons and torture people with a link to the article about how the EU has made every American with a conscience (again) ashamed of our government. OK, never mind in lieu of, here's the link. The bear video is much funnier.

Anti-Anti-Utopianism

Joshua Glen's got a relatively thoughtful article in today's Globe that reviews the Jamesonian perspective on utopian sci-fi from Bellamy's Looking Backward through the likes of Delany, LeGuin, and PKD. Ultimately, (you probably saw this coming if you know who my favorite author is) Kim Stanley Robinson is described as the contemporary author whose novels do the best job of challenging readers to imagine alternatives.