Always a sucker for both science fiction and anything vaguely related to time travel, this season I've started watching ABC's new series, Flash Forward. The premise of the show is that everyone on Earth simultaneously loses consciousness for approximately two minutes and sees visions of a few minutes of their lives six months in the [...]
Posts under ‘sci-fi’
Conspiracy Theories
Image credit: Photo by CowGummy on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It started off innocently enough years ago. She would forward me the usual stories warning me that I should watch out for snakes in McDonald's ball pits or people out to steal my kidneys or serial killers who would lure me out of the [...]
Choices
Finally! My followup on life, the universe and Silda Spitzer's choices.This is also posted at Two Women Blogging. Photo credit: Photo byshadowfax the second on Flickr My husband and I were having a discussion once about life, the universe and everything (not the book, although we've been known to discuss that too, but actual life, [...]
The Matrix, Reloaded
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Mark and I lived most of our lives in the Matrix; we were born in it, grew up in it, met each other in it, were married in it. For over 30 years, our brains tried so hard, [...]
The Matrix
Now, I admit, I love a good Keanu Reeves movie, or even (as most of them are) a bad Keanu Reeves movie. He has this uncanny ability to channel his defining role as Ted Theodore Logan (of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) throughout his work. (Just think of the way he delivers the line, "I [...]
