X-Files: "They're All Mythology Episodes"

Mulder and Scully talk with nun 

played by XF vet Christine Willes

Recently Mike Clelland (author of The Messengers, which you should pick up as soon as you're done with this) and the good fellows at the Sync Book Press reported on the second episode of season 10 of The X-Files, "Founder's Mutation", written and directed by TenThirteen founding father James Wong. 

Generation X: History's Latchkey Kids

So, a developing theme out there in the culture is this "Baby Boomers vs. Millennials" war. You've probably seen it floating around. 

The X-Files Revival Strikes a Nerve.

So after 14 years off the air, 11 months of waiting after the revival was announced and most excruciatingly, 20 minutes of contentless, post-game fluff and a mind-rotting avalanche of commercials, the new episode of The X-Files aired. 

What Year is This? It's SecretSun16

What an interesting year this has been already.

Last year during the New Horizon mission to Pluto (and points beyond), I speculated that the real purpose of this mission was not Pluto at all but was in fact about searching the murky reaches of space beyond the former planet, specifically looking for Planet X. 

Bowie, Blackstar and the Stories Still Untold, Part Two

Bowie's farewell with Blackstar was so meticulously planned and executed, both musically and visually, both as a masterpiece of media manipulation and also as a magical working, that many people forgot this was nothing new for the Starman, that he'd been performing similar if not lesser feats for much of the new century. 

Seen From Space: The Inaugural Secret Soup Summit

I rarely speak. It's one of the hazards of self-employment. I'm alone most of the day, trapped within my own inner dialogue. I don't get many opportunities to flex those verbal muscles, but am thinking I should take it upon myself to practice, y'know, talking more often. 

The New Age Unleashed: Resistance is Futile

A link popped up recently in my Facebook feed, titled "Ten Facebook Pages You Need to Stop Sharing From." It was a link to a blog called "Dawn's Brain," the author of which seems to be an art teacher who decided to expand her resume into teaching biology (probably in reaction to arts programs being increasingly targeted by budget-minded administrators).