sockii is just your typical Jane-of-All-Trades who never has enough time in her day for all of her projects. She has written for many websites online including Squidoo, Zujava, Yahoo! Contributors Network, HubPages and Wizzley. She has been attending and vending at science fiction and media conventions for over 15 years, and for several years ran an art gallery and jewelry store in Philadelphia. Today she is happy to be living in South Jersey with her partner David and their 6 cats. Sockii is a member of several affiliate sales programs including Amazon Associates and Viglink. Products from these services may be advertised on her posts and pages to generate sales commissions.
MasterChef US Season Four: September 4, 2013 Episode Recap & Review (Part 2)
September 5, 2013 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
It’s time for the final three home cooks to face another Mystery Box. Under the first box is 250,000. Under the second box is their cookbook. Under the third box is the MasterChef trophy…
MasterChef US Season Four: September 4, 2013 Episode recap & review (Part 1)
September 5, 2013 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
It’s down to the final four cheftestants and there are only two mystery boxes ahead of them, and two stations behind them. It turns out they will be working in two teams of two for this next challenge…
Depeche Mode in Atlantic City August 30, 2013: Concert Review
September 3, 2013 | Posted in LIVE MUSIC | By sockii
Depeche Mode Rocks Ovation Hall in Atlantic City On August 30, 2013, electronic music legends Depeche Mode brought their Delta Machine Tour to Atlantic City, New Jersey. The show, which took place at Revel’s Ovation Hall, provided fans a wonderful
MasterChef US Season Four: August 29, 2013 Episode recap & review
August 30, 2013 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
The (still) five remaining contestants are now at a ranch outside of Los Angeles. They have to cook all of the food at the party. Whose party is it? None other than Paula Deen…
Book Review: “The Melody Thief” by Shira Anthony
August 30, 2013 | Posted in LGBT THEMES, ROMANCE | By sockii
Cary Redding is a successful and talented cellist living in Milan and in demand all around the world. But a troubled childhood and domineering, demanding mother has left him with little sense of his own self-worth beyond what he can achieve with his instrument…
MasterChef US Season Four: August 28, 2013 Episode recap & review
August 29, 2013 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
Tonight there are some VIP guests putting together the Mystery Boxes for the remaining five cheftestants…it’s the judges’ sons, dressed up to be little mini-mes.
The Surreal Science Fiction Art of Richard M. Powers
August 27, 2013 | Posted in ART | By sockii
Richard M. Powers One of the most influential and revolutionary science fiction illustrators of the 20th Century As a young child growing up in the 1970s, a great deal of my interest in reading and literature shaped by the large
Remembering Brimstone: The TV Series
August 25, 2013 | Posted in CULT TV | By sockii
In the Fall of 1998, FOX premiered one of the most unique supernatural television series of all time (at least in this author’s opinion): Brimstone. The series starred Peter Horton (of Thirtysomething fame) and John Glover, who would later go
MasterChef US Season Four: August 21, 2013 Episode recap & review
August 22, 2013 | Posted in EPISODE RECAPS, REALITY TV | By sockii
This week’s episode finds the remaining contestants on the rooftop of a high rise in downtown Los Angeles. Well, five of the last six are up on the roof – Krissi is too scared to go up there…
5 Things I Won’t Miss About Missing Dragon*Con This Year
August 21, 2013 | Posted in CONVENTIONS | By sockii
Since 2005, I’ve spent every Labor Day weekend working the dealers room at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the first year since then that I’m skipping out on the convention for a number of reasons–mainly that the sheer expense
