First Draft, First Sequel
The first draft of my first ever sequel has wrapped. Jack Dashing, the planetary romantic and hero of Adventure Constant returns to free an entire city from the clutches of tyranny in Adventure Rising. He will once the book ages a bit and goes through two or three rounds...
Happy Thanksgiving
As part of my ongoing pushback against all things [Current Year], my kids will be receiving a healthy dose of factual history. In addition to giving thanks for the blessings we enjoy and discussing how and to Whom we give thanks, my kids will receive a short explanation of...
Arrival – Part Two
Did you know Arrival earned eight Oscar nominations? It even won an Oscar for best sound editing. It’s nice to see Hollywood take a sci-fi film seriously for once, even if the film they take seriously was one carefully crafted to make kind of smart people feel smarter than...
Arrival – Part One
Arrival is one of those strange movies that you hear a lot about despite that fact that no one really talks about the movie itself. Now that I’ve seen it, I understand why. On the one hand, any discussion of the film’s critical plot points necessitates spoilers. On the...
Staying In Touch
Scuttlebutt has it that old @Jack is up to his usual tricks these days. The House Un-Twitter Activities Committee is hard at work preparing yet another purge list for their latest pogrom. For a site dedicated to helping people communicate, they sure do love to make it harder to...
Jaded Consumption And Secret Fandom
Inspired partially by a binge listen to Diversity and Comics and partially by several young daughters who enjoy finding ways to fly their own nerd-flags, I found myself at a small local comic and toy expo this past weekend. After milling about and finding a few things for the...
On Jeffro’s Departure
Jeffro Johnson blazed up through the game blogging scene in record time. Never one of the more prolific writers on gaming, his posts were nevertheless widely recognized as making up in for their lack of quantity with massive amounts of quality. Early on, his analytical gaze turned toward Car...
Stranger Things 2: The Belated Review
Here we are, more than a week after the release of Stranger Things 2: The Enstrangering, and thanks to the magic of Netflix and a culture that struggles with portion control, talking about this show feels like old news. My own family, dominated by young girls, followed the cultural...
The PulpRev Sampler
Maybe you’ve been sitting on the fence, not sure whether these loud mouthed PulpRev guys really can back up their pulp talk with a little pulp walk. No doubt, the crowd has an online swagger and confidence about their understanding of the pulp works and how to recreate the...
Halloween – A Christian Holiday
Time once again for your annual reminder that in a lot of ways the secular holiday of Halloween is, in fact, one of the single most Christian holidays celebrated by Americans. It is a unique blend of sacred and civic holiday and one well worth preserving in its most...