Geeks don't come much geekier than this: My buddy Nathaniel, proprietor of the blog Film Experience, is madly in love with Michelle Pfeiffer, and he doesn't care who knows it. In fact, he has invited bloggers all over the Web (including yours truly) to come worship at the altar of La Pfeiff, and come they have, 35 so far on the occasion of Ms. Pfeiffer's birthday tomorrow.
I hope she at least sends out some nice thank-you cards...
Holy crap, did anyone else watch last week’s episode of PBS’s Nova, “Dimming the Sun”? The premise: “New evidence that air pollution has masked the full impact of global warming suggests the world may soon face a heightened climate crisis.” The three unexpected days of clear skies after 9/11, when all aircraft were grounded, showed that the artificial clouds that are airplane contrails are having a dramatic effect on how much sunlight reaches the surface of the planet, part of the overall impact that pollution is having on the environment, and it is scary as hell. Basically, we’re fucked, and it doesn’t even require secret government conspiracies to douse us unsuspecting Americans with aerosols via airplane exhaust.
Meanwhile, deliberate willingness to discard the scientific method for religious reasons as well as the willful ignorance of a scientifically illiterate populace continue to keep issues of global climate change from the forefront.
Doctor Who is awesome, no question about it (and yes, I’ve got lots to say about the most recent episodes, which I’ll get to as soon as I possibly can), but are you missing the Stargates just a tad on Friday nights? Me too. I don’t see why we couldn’t have Stargates and Doctor Who all on the same night.
If you’re really missing, say, geek-hunk David Hewlett’s snarky-smart Dr. Rodney McKay (from Stargate Atlantis, of course), then click on over to my other site, FlickFilosopher.com, and enter to win one of three DVDs of Dave’s flick Ice Men, a Canadian indie in which he demonstrates that he’s not just a geek (you did know that he’s a Net entrepreneur and -- yup -- an enormous Doctor Who dork, too, didn’t you?), he’s also an intense actor who steals every scene he's in. But then, we Atlantis watchers already knew that.
I’ll review Ice Men and another Hewlett flick, Nothing, soon over at FlickFilosopher.com.
Oh, and yesterday was Dave’s birthday. Happy birthday, Dave!
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In honor of the weird-stuff-from-outer-space vibe of the way-cool, way-gross Slither, which opened today (read my review here), I'm proud to announce the first-ever Geek Philosophy giveaway contest. The winner will receive a four-book set of ooky paranormal aliens-among-us “nonfiction” paperback books:
