Author: Shiri Sondheimer

July 21, 2014

Monday Review: Snowpiercer

First things first, Luke Pasqualino (aka: D’Artagnan in my new television obsession, The Musketeers) appears to have at least a little bit of parkour training...

July 19, 2014

Snowpiercer Broke My Brain

You should allow it to do the same to yours. I shall explain once I have puzzled out and superglued the shards of my cortex...

July 19, 2014

That Which Shiri is Reading

At the moment? Fuck all. Two runs of three night shifts in the last week means the eye to brain translation matrix has totally failed...

July 18, 2014

For Your Consideration…

Apologies for the repost blogs this week. Life blah blah blah. Check this one out anyway: A Game as Literary Tutorial: Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced...

July 17, 2014

Gauntlet Slap

Dear DC, Yes, your rival’s recently announced shake-ups are pandering gimmicks, the first of which reeks of desperation and the second of which is moderately less...

July 16, 2014

Your Wednesday Earworm: Sweet Amarillo

July 16, 2014

That to Which Shiri is Listening: 7-16-14

Because summer and bluegrass and because Old Crow Medicine Show is freakin’ amazing. Also because track three, Sweet Amarillo, lodged in my head and has molded...

July 16, 2014

Thor’s Female Armor Bingo Score

The concept art earns you eight squares, hypothetically enough for the win. depending on the arrangement of your card. This may not, or may, be a...

July 15, 2014

My Adoration Grows

July 15, 2014

The Big Marvel Announcement: This is Your New Thor

I would really, really like to be excited about this. The statement from Marvel includes a little bit of backstory that implies neo-Thor is a self-made...

Watch this space, new episodes coming soon!!! March 13, 2017
When we decided to put the podcast on hold there was always a hope that we would be able to start it up again. Well, that day has come. We are going to change the format up a bit, more details about that as we record new episodes. And, to get everyone's appetite whetted, we […]
Hiatus... April 5, 2016
Luke here. This blog and the podcast that it exists to support are a labor of love. In a crazy week, sitting down and recording an episode or banging out some blog posts is one of the things I look forward to the most. That being said, the two of us are crazy busy, and […]
58: Going Places March 21, 2016
This week, Luke and Shiri take a ride in the Midnight Taxi Tango. Next, we journey into the television version of The Expanse. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrr and the Arrrrrgh.
57: Altered Procedurals March 7, 2016
57: Altered Procedurals This week, Luke and Shiri talk Vertigo’s Sheriff of Babylon. Next, we talk the new X-Files and Lucifer. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrrr and Arrrrrrgh.
56: Inglorious, Hateful Assholes and the Person Who Writes Them February 8, 2016
This week, Luke and Shiri bid farewell to two legends, David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Next, we talk Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight and Inglorious Basterds. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrr and the Arrrrgh.
55: The Game Has The Feet… January 25, 2016
This week, Luke and Shiri talk Conan Doyle’s original procedural superstar Sherlock Holmes. Next we enter the mind palace of The Abominable Bride. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrrr and the Arrrrrgh.
Episode 54: Staaaaaar Waaaaaars! (prepare for spoilers) January 11, 2016
Episode 54: Staaaaaar Waaaaaars! (prepare for spoilers) This week, Luke and Shiri talk The Force Awakens. That is all. Lot’s to talk about. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrrrr and the Arrrrrrrrrrrgh.
53: Us and Ms. Jones December 28, 2015
53: Us and Ms. Jones We had a whole fancy episode planned, but we end up mostly just talking about Jessica Jones and then end, as always, with the Grrrrr and the Arrrrrgggghhhhh.
52: The Expanse and Flipside of Fairyland December 14, 2015
52: The Expanse and Flipside of Fairyland After a “What We’re Excited About” Lightening round, Luke and Shiri leap out into The Expanse to discuss Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. Next, we splat into Scottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland. We end, as always, with the Grrrrrr and the Argggghhhhh.
Turkey stole our episode. November 30, 2015
Well, we have been running without a safety net around here for a bit. And, it has finally caught up with us. In the past we have kept a buffer. Just one or two episodes already recorded and ready to go. In case work, home life, NaNoWriMo, or the celebration of turkeys interfered with the recording of […]