BSC Round-up: Nov. 8, 2009

Website Information | Elena Nola | November 8, 2009 at 10:23 am

Another week of fall foliage and reviews dropping like leaves onto the frosty earth of BSC Review… Eh, enough poetics for the morning after the Saturday that in all likelihood locked down who will play in the college football championship. If you were too busy trolling the interwebs for every scrap of news about your team (or the other team, or which team you’re going to bet on if you’re one of the lucky few who either have a local bookie or live in a state with sports betting) to check in every day, fret not! I’ve got your cheat sheet, my weekly run-down of our original content so you can toast to your victory (or wash away the bitter defeat) without worrying that you missed something awesome.

Interviews

BSC’s re-running of Victor Gischler’s World’s Worst Interview series concludes this week with the Final Three: Dennis Lehane, then Harry Hunsicker, and finally Charlie Stella

Book Reviews

Brian gives us our first look at Stumptown with issue #1 from Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth

The Nerd of Noir serves up a delectable assortment of crime comics for all palettes…except the most delicate with Crime Comics for One and All (Except Cozy Fans, Regrettably)

Aaron Teiser says Mark Chadbourn’s The Silver Skull (first in his new Swords of Albion series) “in its better moments reminds [him] of Scott Lynch’s Locke Lamora”

Brian takes a drive down memory lane and drags back Friday’s Forgotten Book in the form of Cruddy by Lynda Barry, which is as fascinatingly bleak as they come

The Week in Television

Katelin takes another turn at spying on her Desperate Housewives neighbors with “Don’t Walk on the Grass”

PLMII and Dexter are back with season 4’s sixth episode, “If I Had a Hammer”

Gerald So has The Big Bang Theory covered with this week’s “The Cornhusker Vortex”

CSI: Miami had Scott Parker questioning the wisdom of pre-wedding bachelor parties as this week’s bride to be asks, “Dude, Where’s My Groom?”

Castle’s “Famous Last Words” adds one more to this season’s streak of interesting, solid episodes

Gerald so enjoyed the bevy of familiar faces on NCIS this week as recurring characters took center stage on the plotline in “Outlaws and In-laws,” while on the opposite coast NCIS: Los Angeles had the right mix of technology, deduction, and undercover chops with “Keepin’ It Real”

Gerald So enjoyed Bones’ latest quirky episode, “The Toughman in the Tender Chicken,” more than he expected

Vampire Diaries had an episodic and emotionally charged week when a visit from Stefan’s oldest vampire pal ends in tragedy on the night he should have been blowing out “162 Candles”

Columns

Mangakissa is back! Medora shines the spotlight on two SF-influenced stories this week in her bi-monthly manga-wrangle

Jan-ken-pon is back with Deadpool #16

Keith Rawson has more Short Thoughts on Short Fiction this week, as he takes to Playing Favorites in Volume 17

Charles Tan virally spams another installment of his Stalker’s Notebook with some reflections on Gender, Minorities, and International SF

Damon Cap debuts his new and hopefully to be weekly column, BSC Battle, which pits two of…well, just about anything or anyone against each other in a battle for ultimate street cred. This week: The Office’s Pam Beasley and Ugly Betty’s Betty Suarez claw it out for Best Admin Assistant

Hal Duncan sends us some more Notes from the New Sodom with his newly developed theory about the pop culture evolution of vampires On Blood, Bad Boys, and Bottoms

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