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Being Human in America: Episode Two Reviewed
All right, so here we are with the write-up of the second episode of the American Being Human. For those of you just joining us, my stated goal is to watch the first three episodes (my write-up of the...
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Being Human in America: Episode Three Reviewed
So here we are. Third Episode. We can do this. Deep Breaths. ...Shit. Okay! So, if you're just tuning in, what I was doing here was watching the first three episodes of the American version of Being...
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American Gods: The Motion Picture
You know I was just talking the other day about the fact that Neil Gaiman has always said that he would only ever make an American Gods film if it was perfect. Well, according to the folks over at...
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Why Limitless is About Cyborgs and Magic
So, UnknownBinaries & I recently saw Limitless. Now the film's animating premise is an old one, and you hear it in nearly every piece of science fiction concerned with human enhancement: we only...
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Albarn and Dee Are On Their Own
Remember a few months back, when I mentioned that Alan Moore, Damon Albarn, and Jamie Hewlett were planning on doing a rock opera about the life of Magician John Dee? Well apparently that's not...
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The Black Rider: The First One's Always Free
As we approach autumn, it's good to remember some of the music and art that makes us feel like fall. Certain bits and pieces of culture can live in a particular season, in our minds, and the stories...
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Ready to Walk Through It, Now Just Searching For the Door
Recently, photographer, writer, all around interesting person, and friend of the show, Ms. Katie West wrote an article on the impact of The Matrix on the culture and minds of a certain generation: "I...
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What I Want From "The Dark Knight Rises"
So, in case you hadn't heard, the full trailer for The Dark Knight Rises went live, and it is oh so very much yes. But, in addition to just showing you this brand new hotness and asking you...
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Why Fringe and Futurama Are Pretty Much the Same Show
So. We're all SF nerds here, right? We've all watched the first four seasons of Futurama, and we're all watching Fringe? Yeah, of course we are. So you'll all be with me, and you'll understand what I...
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Q: What Are You Prepared To Do? A: Mashup Some Trailers
Found via sxyblkmn, I submit to you: The Avengers Extended Mashup Trailer (by ScreenRant) And Honestly? This needs to be the trailer they play in theaters. This ties every one of the individual films...
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The Oatmeal on Nikola Tesla
David Bowie, standing in for Tesla. He too has Wizard Eyes. Thanks to The Oatmeal, the world now knows that Nikola Tesla had what the kids at "Adventure Time!" aptly termed Stanky Old Wizard Eyes*....
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An Interview with Comics Creator Jared Axelrod
Photo of Jared Axelrod, by J.R. Blackwell. A few weeks back, I hadn't slept well in days, and I came up with and posted the following: STUPID IDEA ALERT! I'm REALLY FUCKING TIRED and so offering to...
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Prometheus: Rampant Spoilers and Speculation
This isn't really a review of Prometheus, so much as it is a spoiler-filled retrospective of some things which may have been missed in the tulmut of awesome which was that film. What I mean is, I want...
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HBO Posts Entire Pilot for 'The Newsroom' on YouTube
A short but important update to say Holy. Mother. Of Crap. HBO has posted the Entire Pilot for Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom on YouTube, for free. This is huge! Folks, as a devotee, nay Acolyte of The...
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44Flood and TOME
Every so often, there comes a project the scope of which is kind of baffling--not just in terms of the physical components, but in emotional and psychic resonance. TOME, by Ben Templesmith's new...
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The Oatmeal Wants To Help Build A Nikola Tesla Museum
And so you may remember a previous post of mine where I told you about The Oatmeal's love affair with Nikola Tesla? Yeah, this post. Well, keeping with what the public knows of his manic, obsessive...
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An Interview With Kim Boekbinder about Space
I first heard of and met Kim Boekbinder in 2008, when she and her sister Zoe appeared as the sister-cabaret duo Vermillion Lies, accompanying Amanda Palmer on her first solo US tour (That's also the...
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Fringe: We Were Meant To Build A Better World
I almost titled this piece "Quid Nutriti Me Iam Nunc Destruit Me," but I thought that might be a little heavy-handed, even if it is true. It means "That Which Once Sustained Me Now Destroys Me." I can...
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Neil Gaiman's Final Book Signing Circus to Come to Town...
Longtime readers of Need Coffee will know that we are huge fans of The Neil. So when we heard that his US book-signing tour for The Ocean at the End of the Lane was the last one he'd be doing, we were...
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Iron Man Three: On What Was Done
Hey folks. Other than that AWESOME NEIL GAIMAN ANNOUNCEMENT it's been a while. I was still kind of recovering from Fringe, to be honest. Anywhoddle, as you know, Bob, part of my remit here is that I...
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