Hello Hugo voters! Thanks so much for stopping by. I’m Alasdair Stuart, a finalist for this year’s Best Fan Writer Hugo and this is my eligibility packet. One of the few perks of most of my work being unpaid is I can easily make it available for voters and non-voters alike. A quick note about …
Saib is one of my favorite artists right now, their lo-fi, gentle beats are the perfect combination of funky and low impact for me. You can find their Bandcamp here, their Cowboy Bebop tribute album streaming below and trust me, all of it is Something Good. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVWqdnLH9-U]
This is actually three Something Good(s) for the price of one. Firstly, Firewatch is a wonderful, odd, kind game. Secondly, What’s So Great About That? is an incredibly good YouTube channel and thirdly, this, their essay on how the game uses photography is brilliant critical writing. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc968u5yr68]
Something Good from someone Great today. Samuel L. Jackson, a man who uses profanity the way Mozart used musical notes. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvB9ftAHpwc]
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Five years ago, I wrote a piece about Interstellar and the death of the astronaut myth. …
Not a hallucination! Not a dream! SIXTEEN episodes of the most endearingly cheesy toy cartoon ever made! And now you know and knowing is half the battle. The other half is lasers. Something Good for Friday! Enjoy! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBaZHONIWOM]
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. My favorite definition of horror is allegedly William Friedkin’s: true horror is seeing …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. I talked myself out of a panic attack this week. Here’s what happened, and …
Maria Elena Fernandez doing God’s work, assembling this magnificent group of showrunners to answer how they’d write a Corona Virus episode. The 30 Rock one is great (‘My snakes eat bats and then I use my snakes to practice French kissing, so it was inevitable, Liz Lemon!’), the Brooklyn 99 is transcendentally great. They’re all …
This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Regular readers of The Lid will know my fondness for audio drama in all …