I would love an alien as a sidekick

Beam me all the way up

Why is it a stereotype that sci-fi is enjoyed by people of a nerdy persuasion? I'm leaning into it with this very title. Is it the fact that smart people tend to enjoy it and smart people are seen as nerdy? Is there something inherently dorkified about liking robots? What's a jock thing to like, action movies? There's no denying that the stereotype exists. Close your eyes and picture a Star Wars fan. Odds are, you're probably picturing a dude who wears glasses and collects figurines. In other w…

Memes are our future

Live long and meme

E.T. Phone Meme

Blast all the way off

Halloween and science fiction is a match made in heaven. Halloween is all about transformation-- taking ordinary things and making them seem mystical or supernatural. A pumpkin becomes a Jack O Lantern, a human becomes a skeleton, and a dog becomes a pumpkin. Science fiction is all about making the impossible seem possible. A Delorean becomes a time travel device. A boy becomes a Jedi. A robot becomes the destruction of all civilization. Transformation occurs at all levels on Halloween. So this…

Nerding out

Take me away

Scroll on and prosper

One of my favorite sci-fi tropes is alternate universes . Okay, it might be more than a trope. It might be real if certain astrophysicists are to be believed. But I love to see it represented in movies and TV because the concept is so endlessly interesting and also hard to wrap your head around. You mean there are infinite universes out there, and some of them might look EXACTLY like this one, except that I was born with blue hair and that was totally normal? Infinity is an almost impossible th…

Meme me up, Scotty

Going back to the future

In a world far far away

Need me a talking robot sidekick