Santa exists! Or so claims Dr. Larry Silverberg. The North Carolina State University professor and NASA Mars team member answers all those pesky questions about how the rotund gift-giver accomplishes his physics-defying duties
In an interview with Discovery Canada Dr. Silverberg explains Santa’s route-planning software, cellular data collection system, and even the approximate time frame that [...]
Scientist Proves Santa Exists
Martians Kidnap Santa, Fail To Steal Presents From Earthling Children
While I’m on a Christmas countdown kick, I want to thank my friends over at Film and Cinema Puritans for mentioning Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on their list of favorite Christmas films. As the title may suggest, this is a classic holiday-themed sci-fi flick, most famous for its regular appearance on worst films ever [...]
The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas
Whatever you celebrate this holiday season, be sure to check out Sean Bieri’s themed comic strip for Tor. His zombie-based reinterpretations of classic Christmas stories begin with “Gift of the Zombi,” a simplified—and much improved—variation of William Sydney Porter’s overly altruistic tale, “The Gift of the Magi.”
The Neverending DVD Story
I’ve never seen The Wire but I know the theme song by heart. Every morning for a period of several weeks I would find my roomate curled in the fetal position on our couch with the menu screen for the show blaring on repeat. As everyone who has fallen asleep while watching a DVD knows, [...]
Old School Vampire Kit Sells For $15k
With the irritably angsty Twilight sweeping movie theaters and True Blood still skulking through TV-land, a whole new generation of sexually repressed audiences is discovering the inner blood-lust—or, at least, a fictional fetish.
Longterm fans of the genre, however, will be more interested to learn that an authentic 19th century vampire kit (complete with holy [...]
Mario Kart Love Song
Sam Hart’s singer/songwriter gig is not what it sounds like. The San Francisco-based musician’s acoustic ballad “Mario Kart Love Song” references the video game in its lyrics (“no one can touch us if we pick up a star”), while evoking the crooning sweetness of a tributary tune (typically my least favorite kind of song). Donning [...]
The Adventures Of Langdon St. Ives
James P. Blaylock has an affinity for inventing authors out of the blue. His fictional poet William Ashbless was reportedly imagined with the help of then fellow Cal State student Tim Powers. Though the two later found guidance under Philip K. Dick and have since gone on to become successful authors of their own, this [...]
The Last Man, Just A Guy
Variations of the phrase “The Last Man” have been used by Nietzsche (to describe the weak-willed anti-superman), as the moniker for Vincent Price’s character in the 1964 film The Last Man on Earth (later reprised by Will Smith in I Am Legend), and now for the Sony Computer Entertainment’s PS3 game The Last Guy.
The title [...]
