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As MSNBC cut between New York and Chicago and Kenya and Atlanta last night following the 11:00 p.m. official call for Obama, was I the only one thinking of the montage of victory celebrations at the end of Return of the Jedi? At the risk of stretching analogies between the Bush administration and the Galactic [...]

We noted on today’s episode of Poli Sci-Fi Radio that it was a pretty slow week, sci-fi-wise, despite the fact that it’s the opening weekend of a Star Wars movie. And indeed, when Emily and I walked into the theater for a 9:30 screening tonight at 9:15, there wasn’t a soul in the room. Eventually [...]

How lame is this: A blog post about all the would-be blog posts that I haven’t gotten around to writing.  Pretty lame.  Still, these are the things that I’ll try and tackle when my time frees up a bit (sometime around Christmas at this rate)… John (GMD) Odum responded at length in the comments of [...]

O’ the recursive wheels within wheels keep spinning… Here are some tasty tidbits about much-anticipated upcoming SF TV fare from Gerry Canavan, who always seems to be 1/2 step ahead of me with this stuff.  I guess you can all just stop reading Candleblog and go straight to the source from now on… Sci-Fi has [...]