emilyc, Author at Kittysneezes

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft: Juno/Atlas V NASA Tweetup

On August 12, 2011 by emilyc

Image by nasa hq photo via Flickr In early July 2011, I was licking my wounds after seeing the final space shuttle launch in Titusville, FL, and quite frankly I was getting rather depressed over the decline of manned space travel in…

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Guilty Pleasures: Tammy Wynette

On April 5, 2010 by emilyc

I am a Tammy Wynette fan. Most people assume this is because of her association with the KLF in the early 1990s; their song “Justified and Ancient” harkened back to her massive 1960s hit about submissiveness to men, “Stand by Your Man.”…

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Interview: Nick Abadzis

On December 3, 2009 by emilyc

Nick Abadzis is a writer and illustrator who wrote the 2007 instant classic Laika, the heartbreaking graphic novel about the USSR’s first space pup, profiled a few months ago on Kittysneezes. He also wrote for Marvel Comics in the 1990s, and has…

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Kevin Bacon Blew Up Apollo 13, and Other Various Theories

On July 27, 2009 by emilyc

Given that the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13 was a week ago, I recently re-watched the 1995 movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks as the happy-go-lucky, all American, apple-pie mission commander Jim Lovell, Bill Paxton as the brash LEM pilot who won’t…

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Ad Astra Per Aspera – Gus and Deke

On June 22, 2009 by emilyc

“If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.” –Gus Grissom,…

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All Dogs Go to Heaven: Laika by Nick Abadzis

On June 19, 2009 by emilyc

[Purchase Book] “Sputnik 2 was not designed to be retrievable, and Laika had always been intended to die.”

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An Open Letter to Lady Gaga

On June 1, 2009 by emilyc

Image via Wikipedia I’ve just finished watching the new Lady Gaga video, “Paparazzi,” and I am sort of nonplussed about all of the attention she has been getting from all of the blogs, especially Perez Hilton (who I am NOT a fan…

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The Opposite of Phil Oakey: Top Five Darkest Synthpop Songs

On May 23, 2009 by emilyc

Cover of Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey Most people are familiar with the light hearted, pop oriented synthpop songs from the early 1980s; “Don’t You Want Me” by the Human League (NOT the early, darker incarnation of the band) and pretty much…

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Nivea’s New Ass Cream, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ass

On May 17, 2009 by emilyc

My ass. 31 years of torment and tumultuous body hate have come to this – me gazing at my ass ceaselessly in the mirror. It used to be a quite nice ass, when I was around 22 years old – no cellulite,…

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Feeling That I’ve Lost Control: Mental Illness in Pop Music

On May 12, 2009 by emilyc

Another night and I can’t sleep I need to cry but I can’t weep Feeling that I’ve lost control Where’s my spirit, where’s my very soul? Kevin Ayers, “Wide Awake” (from the album The Unfairground, 2007) Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shotgun…

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