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The Secret Lair #0028 Released Into the Wild

secret_lair150_txtWarning!

Episode #0028 of The Secret Lair has broken free and is wreaking havoc across the world.  It boasts the following weaponry:

Staff Reports

Chief Medical Officer’s Progress Report. In which the Bad Doctor speculates that the Minister of Crackpot Schemes and Unfortunate Synergies ought not be involved in our plan to demoisturize the moon.

Discussion

We are joined by our lovely wives to discuss The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

  • There is chili. And there are Fritos. And SPOILERS.
  • Everyone talks about time travel as metaphor, but what if it’s actually a simile?
  • Chris discusses the difference between men and women. He says it’s all about the potential versus the kinetic. Or something.
  • We explain why Prisoner of Azkaban is the best book-to-film translation of Harry Potter to date.
  • Chris issues a challenge to Neil Gaiman (American Gods, Anansi Boys).
  • Kris was right about the “R”. The movie version of Clare Abshire is portrayed by Rachel McAdams.

Do yourself a favor and catch it now, before it kills somebody!

I’ve ranted on The Secret Lair about how modern fantasy novels are pretty much cookie-cutter pieces of shite, especially when the blurb on the back goes something like this:

She is (insert Celtic-ish name here), an orphan girl in the land of (insert made up word, usually ending in -ia). Pursued by (insert bad guy with too many apostrophes in his name), who knows that she was the answer to prophecy and understands that she holds his doom. Now, she comes into her own power, as a priestess of (insert Greek or Celtic goddess here)… …and she will save, or damn, the world.

Keeping that in mind, you can see why I loved today’s xkcd:

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