Like, I think, most people, I first heard Junip's mesmerizing song "Line of Fire" in the promo for the final episode of Breaking Bad:http://youtu.be/Mbm8UqQUXYgSometime afterward, I decided to check YouTube to see if there was an official video for the song. I found it here, but along the way I also found something far more entertaining in this fan mash-up from someone … [Read more...] about Step Back From the Line of Fire, Batman
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The United States of Paranoia – Review
The nice folks at the Reason Foundation sent me a free review copy of Jesse Walker's The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory all the way back in September of last year. At the time I was churning through my close reading of Radley Balko's Warrior Cop, so it took me a month or so to get around to reading Walker's book. And after reading it, I really didn't have much … [Read more...] about The United States of Paranoia – Review
Game of Thrones – Season 4
The fourth season of Game of Thrones begins today, and I have a few predictions. I realize this is a fool's game, since people who've been reading the books already know what happens next, but those of us who've skipped the reading might as well speculate. The story is too large for me to address all of it, but here are a few things I expect to see, in no particular … [Read more...] about Game of Thrones – Season 4
The Forensic Geology Series – Review
When I don't have any new novels from my favorite major authors, I like to browse the cheap e-books at Amazon to try to find new authors. Many of them turn out to be unappealing -- not so much because they are badly written but because, like most indie art, they have a somewhat narrow appeal. Of course, when that narrow appeal is aimed straight at me, it's like digging a random … [Read more...] about The Forensic Geology Series – Review
Why Helix Kinda Sucks
(Spoiler Alert for potentially all 8 Helix episodes to date.)I loved the Andromeda Strain, both the book and the movie, and so I'm always willing to give a good plague story a try, which is why I really wanted to like Helix, the new series on SyFy, about a CDC team sent to investigate a mysterious situation at a biological research complex somewhere in the … [Read more...] about Why Helix Kinda Sucks