Wil Wheaton Loves You
“It doesn’t mean that Wil Wheaton doesn’t love you”: Jonathan Coulton explains a few things about Wil Wheaton to Wil Wheaton and the fans at PAX 2009–to the tune of “Code Monkey.”
Klenginem
Klenginem lays down Eminem’s “Without Me” in the original Klingon, “Suvwl’pu’ qan tu’lu’be.”
“If Not For Brent Spiner, I’d Be Illiterate
LeVar Burton isn’ t the only bridge between Star Trek and the reading rainbow. Dan at Faust’s Fantastically Fantasmagoric Forum explains how a media tie-in novel, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Metamorphosis transformed him into a reader.
Kirk in Black and White, Kirk in Color
Fren Attic writes of growing up in a family of Scottish “proto-Trekkies”: “[T]he image that burned itself on to our retinas was the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise. …Only this time they were devoid of their dull, grey uniforms. Kirk was yellow, Spock blue, Scotty a shocking red. […]
Klingon vs. Esperanto–Sindarin Wins!
Andrew O’Hehir reads a book about artificial language and decides: “Tolkien’s languages, one might say, form the missing link between Esperanto and Klingon.”
If You Could Turn Back Time
You remember the ending of the original Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve, directed by Richard Donner: Superman, too late to save Lois Lane, flies around the world at tremendous speed, reversing events so he can have another chance to save her. The facts seem straightforward, but I find […]
The Cultural Gutter 