Lieutenant 030 commented on Stephen King Takes A Shine To Girl Talk And Al Green, at 2:17 PM on Dec 1 Every time King says "your Uncle Stevie" in that worthless column of his, the "bad touch" warning lights come on. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Cutting To The Chase With "Uncut", at 2:48 PM on Nov 26 Seventh Tree was the best Kate Bush meets ELO album ever. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Where Were You The Last Time Guns N' Roses Released A New Album?, at 12:32 PM on Nov 17 Finally had a permanent job (well, "permanent" until earlier this year), had an apartment of my own, still sometimes hanging out with an ex-girlfriend but also with another woman who usually just wanted to be friends, getting away from reading science fiction a bit, going out to see local bands a lot, discovering shoegazer bands like Ride and listening to other pre-grunge alternative rock, and generally ignoring the existence of Guns 'n' Roses. It was a great and mostly carefree time, before things with that second woman got weird and my best friend was transferred a thousand miles away and the 90s began to suck in earnest. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Britain Goes Fannish Over New Trek Footage, at 4:24 PM on Nov 11 Things we know about the young Kirk, as established by the TV series: In Where No Man Has Gone Before, the young Kirk is described as a stack of books with legs -- Garry Mitchell threw a young blonde lab assistant at Kirk, and he nearly married her. more » [io9]

Lieutenant 030 commented on Journey Confuses Two Million More People About Detroit's Geography, at 4:45 PM on Nov 6 Okay, now someone explain Kim Wilde's line about "New York to East California." more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Oh My God: It's A New Official Release From Guns N' Roses, at 10:45 AM on Oct 22 I never understood why anyone cared about Guns and Roses twenty years ago. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Buzz Ballads 2: Scraping The Barrel To Sell You The Drama, at 3:02 PM on Oct 6 I've never heard most of those songs. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Former KLF Dude Dismembers Your Childhood Memories, at 2:55 PM on Oct 6 Tom and Jerry have nothing to do with Looney Tunes. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on Which Fourth-Quarter Release Are You Most Looking Forward To?, at 7:32 PM on Oct 3 My wife is going to want to hear the Streets, Tom Jones, and Big Boi. more »

Lieutenant 030 commented on The Greatest Concept Album Adaptations of Classic Scifi Tales, at 11:32 AM on Sep 10 Replicas by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. more » [io9]

Lieutenant 030 commented on Reprints And Retcons Get Eclipsed By Mars In This Week's Comics, at 9:51 AM on Sep 4 Labour Day on Monday, I mean. more » [io9]

Lieutenant 030 commented on Star Trek Isn't Just About Exploring The Past After All, at 9:46 AM on Sep 4 There have been a lot of developments in the Deep Space Nine post-finale novels. more » [io9]

Lieutenant 030 commented on 9/11 Killed Bryan Singer's Battlestar Galactica, at 11:25 AM on Jul 25 @Spacehamster: "I suspect that at the time (2001) Bryan Singer's rendition of BSG would've been much more popular with fans precisely because it was a continuation of the original show." It would have been more popular with the handful of people who still cared about the original Galactica, sure. more » [io9]

Lieutenant 030 commented on Everything You Knew About Star Trek's Villain May Be Wrong, at 10:31 AM on Jul 24 So... more » [io9]

Lieutenant 030 commented on John Lydon Gets Less Interesting By The Day, at 9:50 AM on Jul 23 Sometimes I think I'd just rather not know anything about the people who make the music I like listening to, which includes the Pistols, PiL, and Bloc Party. more »