January 2010

10 Things That Dollhouse’s Finale Taught Me

#10: No-one will visibly age in the next ten years, except for the possibility of some grey appearing in women’s hair. This is, obviously, good news amongst a sea of bad.
#9: Having characters tell other characters how cool your central character is, instead of actually showing said character actually doing anything cool, is not only [...]

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Reason To Like Where I Live #23

One of my favorite discoveries since moving to Portland has been the concept of work dates. It’s not just the “getting out the house while still getting work done” aspect of it that I adore so much - although, don’t get me wrong, I love that part of it - and neither is it the [...]

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The Future, Now!

[It's another weekend of working insanely hard, so here's the essay from last month's Comix Experience newsletter so that we don't fall into another long run of radio silence here.]
It feels like it’s been awhile since we last talked - Wasn’t it a year ago? - and as always happens during the holiday season, all [...]

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Almost Like Family, Only Slightly More Dysfunctional

My old place of work had a particular culture that couldn’t really, in all honesty, be described as “corporate” - Something that, genuinely, was a plus for the place as much as that sounds like a diss - but at the same time, wasn’t anything like the real world either (Something ably demonstrated by the [...]

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It’s Me Again, Yes How Did You Guess

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? The reason for that is, I went on vacation. And, as I’ve discovered since moving to America, vacation doesn’t actually mean “time off” as much as it means “time pushed to either side.” Maybe it’s just me, but everytime I get near vacation that doesn’t involve my work actually [...]

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One Decade Earlier

Never let it be said that I ignore Twitter’s trending topics, even if some of them take more than 140 characters to fully explain. But #10yearsago (as the kids say), I was waking up in Old London Town with my best friends, having made sure that the world didn’t end when the calendar clicked from [...]

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About me.

In case you haven’t guessed by the title of the website, my name is Graeme McMillan. You may have seen me elsewhere on these internets, in places like io9 (where I write and, on weekends, wear the editor’s hat), Savage Critics or even old haunts like Newsarama or even Fanboy Rampage. In case you can’t tell, I like words.

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It’s “powered by Wordpress” and created and maintained by my lovely wife Kate. She’s also the one who told me that I should have my own, personal blog again, so, really? Blame her.

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