the exact percentage of indie bands who will inevitably sound like Joy Divison.

This weekend I'm going away to the middle of the desert to play medieval war for three days.

As a long-time fan of both Doctor Who and MST3K/Rifftrax, I totally did not see this one coming, but now that it's here, it may be the single most important crossover event ever!
Or not. Your mileage may vary.

You can order the riff and movie for already pre-spliced together as a video-on-demand title for $9, here:

...and I walk by to check on the group working on Saturn. And they are quietly humming the Voyager theme.

Just finished watching my first ever episode of Alias. Damn you JJ Abrams.

If you do not wish to be spoiled, here be spoilurz. Otherwise brave on dear reader.

“It is easy to invent a flying machine,” said the 19th century aviation engineer Otto Lilienthal, “[and] more difficult to build one; to make it fly is everything.” The challenge of air (and later, space) travel began not with building aircraft, but with building a realistic simulation machine in which to test those…

And it's up on my website A Thousand Bad Ideas.