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Comic-Con, you are beautiful.

For anyone who’s ever wondered what a day at San Diego Comic-Con might be like—and I know there must be one or two of you—here are some highlights from this year’s coolest convention with Selwyn Hinds and me. (I say that with nary a hint of snark, by the way; this is our fifth SDCC!) There’s also some fun video at the end, but I won’t spoil the surprise. ¶ Let the fandom begin…

Pledge to the Virtual Flag?

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Picture it: A giant Washington, D.C., hotel ballroom, a couple hundred people, and that persistent buzz that precedes every conference, as organizers try to wrangle and the audience willfully ignores them. Then over the din, a recorded voice asks everyone to rise for the singing of the national anthem. We all stand, and I look around for the flag, which I can’t find until I realize…

‘Being Human’ (and Happy)

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There’s some new video up of the cast of Syfy’s Being Human being legitimately hilarious on a panel I moderated recently at the Paley Center for Media. You can watch it here for some of the highest hijinks of the night with Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, and Mark Stern, Syfy’s president of original programming. And if you’re up for a little self-indulgent reflection, watching it got me thinking…

Poem No. 1

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Here’s something I’ve been tinkering with since the first time I saw a cruise ship sailing down the Hudson River through my living-room window. The scale alone is disconcerting—the Hudson being not at all like the open ocean, and the zillion buildings of downtown Manhattan framing the boat in sections as it passes. So you end up with the distinct impression that’s the real, wide world sailing by…