Tag Archives: aliens

Rapid-Fire References from Space

Posted on April 26, 2026 by Nathan

Beth told me recently that she associates these two movies we watched this weekend with each other. They do have some things in common, but very different tones. As usual, there are SPOILERS for both. Flight of the Navigator – … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Families, Food, Humor, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Science, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, alyson hannigan, dan aykroyd, flight of the navigator, jimmy durante, kim basinger, my stepmother is an alien, nasa, paul reubens, pee-wee herman, phaelon, puckmaren, sarah jessica parker, the three stooges, time travel | Leave a comment

Curves and Angles

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Nathan

Leather Goddesses of Phobos – Released in 1986, this is an Infocom text adventure with some raunchy elements. They aren’t the main focus of the game, but that kind of thing is usually going to stand out. It’s mostly a campy … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Greek Mythology, Humor, infocom, Language, Mathematics, Mythology, Sexuality, Sierra, space quest, Video Games | Tagged aliens, king midas, latex babes of estros, leather goddesses of phobos, mars, mazes, phobos, puzzles, robots, sex, space quest iv, steve meretzky, venus | 2 Comments

Mirth and Magic

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Nathan

Celtic Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, by Sorcha and Aron Hegarty – This a guide to the characters in this mythology, which provides a few pages on the key details of each one, and an lush illustration by … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Christmas, craig shaw gardner, Discworld, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Pac-Man, Relationships, Sierra, space quest, Star Trek, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a malady of magicks, aliens, amy myers, anna stead, aphrodite's new temple, aron hegarty, astro chicken, ba hubba tree bob, beatrice wankmeister, brutus of britain, carmen sandiego, celtic mythology, chris genoa, chris geona, cohen the barbarian, conan the barbarian, cornucopia agricorp, david langford, death swatch, dragons at crumbling castle, dragons at crumbling castle and other tales, elmo pug, esther friesner, fall'n into the sear, father christmas, father christmas goes to work, foop!, jack sharkey, james bibby, jeremy spear, king arthur, mabinogion, mike ashley, molly brown, monkeys, peter spear, queen of the green sun, quentin blake, richard lupoff, roald dahl, robots, roger wilco, ruella in love, seven-league boots, sludge vohaul, sorcha hegarty, space quest iii, space quest v, star generator, swineoids, sword and sorcery, tales of the carpet people, the 59a bus goes back in time, the abominable snowman, the distressing damsel, the frog prince, the mammoth book of comic fantasy, the space quest companion, through the looking-glass, time travel, troll bridge, trolls, two guys from andromeda, war of the doom zombies, witches, wizards, yeti | Leave a comment

I Can’t Wait ‘Til the Future Gets Here

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Nathan

While the previous Hulu seasons were released one week at a time, this one was dropped all at once. It was also around when there was a push for people to cancel Hulu because of Disney caving to Trump in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Climate, Conspiracy Theories, Donkey Kong, Drugs, Food, Futurama, Genetics, Global Warming, Humor, Mathematics, Monsters, Relationships, Religion, Science, Technology, Television, The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Video Games | Tagged aliens, artificial intelligence, bears, bender bending rodriguez, borax kid, bureaucracy, bureaucrates, cubert farnsworth, cygnoids, donald in mathmagic land, donald trump, dr. banjo, dr. john zoidberg, dwight conrad, emeril lagasse, fishy joe gilman, georg cantor, godzilla, hermes conrad, hulu, kaiju, kif kroker, monkey fracas jr., numbers stations, orangutans, philip j. fry, pigs, pizza, planet express, polar bears, professor hubert farnsworth, professor ogden wernstrom, radio, rapture, robot devil, robots, suicide, time loops, truffles, turanga leela, zapp brannigan | Leave a comment

Astral Animation

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Nathan

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie – I kind of wish I’d seen this at the theater, since we don’t get a whole lot of traditionally animated features these days. And Warner Bros. seems to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Cartoons, Humor, Magic, Politics, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, c-3po, chopper, daffy duck, darth maul, ezra bridger, garazeb orrelios, grand admiral thrawn, hera syndulla, hondo ohnaka, jedi, kanan jarras, lasat, looney tunes, lothal, mandalore, petunia pig, porky pig, r2-d2, robots, sabine wren, star wars rebels, the bad batch, the clone wars, the day the earth blew up, twi'lek, warner bros | 1 Comment

Digable Planet

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Nathan

The Dig – Released in 1995, this is similar to other LucasArts games in how it’s played, with a point-and-click interface and an inventory that you have to use in various places, but it has a more serious tone. Based on … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Language, lucasarts, Monsters, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, asteroids, commander boston low, cora miles, crystals, dr. ludger brink, ken borden, maggie robbins, puzzles, robert patrick, spacetime six, steven spielberg, the dig, zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders | Leave a comment

Sometimes a Flying Cigar Is Just a Flying Cigar

Posted on September 13, 2025 by Nathan

Something I’d been considering writing about, and that is somewhat relevant to my seeing Fire in the Sky a few weeks ago, is the design of spacecraft in popular culture. The flying saucer is ubiquitous, but I wasn’t sure exactly … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Christianity, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Frank Black/Black Francis, Hinduism, History, Magic, Music, Mythology, Pixies, Religion, Technology, Television, Video Games, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged alberto fenoglio, alexander the great, aliens, bible, birds, chimney swift, erich von daniken, ezekiel, flying cigars, flying saucers, frank edwards, frasier, ganesh, great schism, hummingbirds, indra, kenneth arnold, le cigare volant, mahabharata, pushpaka vimana, quintus curtius rufus, ramayana, ravana, roger tory peterson, space invaders, spacecraft, texas instruments, ti invaders, ufo sightings, vimana, wine | 2 Comments

Some Guy with a Mop

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Nathan

Fire in the Sky – I knew this movie was about a UFO, but not that much else. It’s pretty insular, really, focusing on a group of lumberjacks in Arizona. One of them, Travis Walton, leaves their truck to check … Continue reading →

Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Corporations, Environmentalism, Families, Humor, Magic, Names, Prejudice, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aliens, ann-margret, anthony hopkins, burgess meredith, elijah wood, fire in the sky, frankenstein, kevin bacon, magic (1978), misogyny, peter dinklage, pollution, the toxic avenger, the toxic avenger (2023), the toxic avenger part ii, ufo sightings, ventriloquism | Leave a comment

Love the Craft

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Nathan

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, edited by S.T. Joshi – I’d read a little bit of Lovecraft before. There’s definitely something about his weird style that I find appealing, but his writing is also kind of dense. A recurring theme is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Conspiracy Theories, Dragon Quest, Environmentalism, Families, Genetics, Hinduism, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Language, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Science, sparks, ursula vernon, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged aliens, artificial intelligence, at the mountains of madness, cannibalism, cats, curious myths of the middle ages, e. nesbit, edgar allan poe, edith nesbit, fairies, five children and it, gnoles, gnolls, h.p. lovecraft, ichthyosaurs, john milton, kiranmala, kiranmala and the kingdom beyond, megatheria, pakkhiraj, paladin's grace, paladins, penguins, perfume, plesiosaurs, poison, pollution, psamathos psamathides, psammead, racism, rakkhosh, rakshasas, roverandom, s.t. joshi, sabine baring-gould, saints of steel, sayantani dasgupta, secrets in the sky, seven champak flowers, shoggoths, st. patrick's purgatory, t. kingfisher, thakurmar jhuli, the annotated h.p. lovecraft, the chaos monster, the colour out of space, the dunwich horror, the narrative of arthur gordon pym, the rats in the walls, tuntuni | 1 Comment

Vive L’Armadillo

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Nathan

I haven’t been reading quite as much as usual recently, and it sometimes seems like I’m having some trouble absorbing what I do read. Still, here are reviews of a few things I thought were worth writing about, with SPOILERS. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Christopher Moore, Comics, Disney Afternoon, Food, History, Humor, Inuit, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Native American, Relationships, Television, ursula vernon | Tagged adolf hitler, aliens, anima rising, armadillos, carl jung, carlo lauro, darkwing duck, doctor who, dragons, ducktales, egon schiele, frankenstein, gizmoduck, gustav klimt, justice ducks, justice ducks starring darkwing duck, kay o'neill, minor mage, morgana macawber, neptunia, raven, roger langridge, sacre bleu, sedna, sigmund freud, st. canard, stegmutt, stegosaurus, t. kingfisher, the tea dragon society, walburga neuzil | Leave a comment

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