Brian Thompson
Brian is the editor of The Amateur Scientist- a skeptical science blog that covers the realms of pseudoscience, religion, politics, the paranormal, and dick jokes. He is also a regular contributor to Pink Raygun- a geektainment site for people with and without vaginas. In his spare time he enjoys white water rafting, slapping, and vagrancy. He has been able to read and write for over seventeen years.
Blogs by this Author
I always thought M. Night Shyamalan just wasn't a very good writer. Too many scenes in his movies come off stilted. His characters feel like robotic plot devices--like they're all puppet...
The recent announcement that Johnny Depp will be playing Tonto in a new Lone Ranger movie may have come as a surprise to many of you. It would make far more sense, you thought, if Depp were pl...
A while back, Devin issued a call for thoughtful discussion of The Dark Knight that didn’t take the form of a top ten list. Was he referencing the questions I asked myself while watching...
Last week, I wrote of my harrowing journey through the bowels of the Downtown Atlanta Sheraton into the sweaty belly of the beast that is modern Star Trek fandom. I attended a Dragon*Con screeni...
I ducked out of Dragon*Con a little early Monday morning so I could beat the hurricane back home to Louisiana. For those who don’t know, Dragon*Con is the largest gathering of something ...
The Mountain Goats make the best music. Let’s throw out that fan-wank conceit that any aficionado’s tastes should be too dense and layered to let any one artist rise to the top.&nb...
I’m not going to write about The Clone Wars. Not because George Lucas bullied me into an embargo. Lucas hasn’t bullied me into doing anything other than get the hell off his ...
Last week I began a look back at the summer movie season of 1994 in an attempt to contextualize this year’s excellent, though potentially overblown, crop of blockbusters, blockdenters, and blo...
Some are saying that this is the best summer at the movies in the history of summers at the movies. Admittedly, it’s been pretty good. While The Dark Knight didn’t ask you to c...
Some questions I asked myself while watching The Dark Knight:
If Superman growled all the time, would anyone ever suspect he was really Clark Kent?
Hong Kong?
Why?
Couldn't Gordon have ju...