“It is easy to invent a flying machine,” said the 19th century aviation engineer Otto Lilienthalmore, “[and] 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.

Of course, Supernatural had tiny ratings to begin with, but it really is the little show that could, with the doggedest fandom that ever dogged.

The only ting that would make this better is if he had used coloured smoke!

Bryan Singer just announced that Evan Peters will play Quicksilver in Days of Future Past. What does it mean for the reports of Quicksilver appearing in Avengers 2? And will Singer also use the Scarlet Witch as well? It seems like Days of Future Past's timey wimey plot would make more (comic book) sense with reality…

This past weekend was spent traipsing through New York City and its various boroughs. It took three trips over 10 years but I can now say I have officially been to all 5 boroughs. Although the Bronx will always be associated with a rained-out Yankees-Blue Jays ball game (I went ALL THE WAY to AMERICA and THE BRONX for…