Welcome to an inadvertent series called Miniature Monday.  It wasn’t intentional, but the summer lull in scheduling means that some painting gets done over the weekend at Chez Abox.  This week’s offering is Splintered Light’s Chaos Panthers, done in a traditional black so dark it has blue highlights.  ...

With a production budget of $144 million, and a marketing budget of $100 million, the financial backers of the Ghostbustettes movie are on the hook for almost a quarter of a billion dollars.  That kind of heavy budget is used for tentpole movies – the big summer guaranteed moneymakers that...

Forward.com, one of the left’s frontline soldiers in the culture war – and one dedicated to scaring Americans of Jewish faith away from those super scary Republicans, recently sperged out a primer on the AltRight, or alt-right, or however you want to spell it. If you’ll permit a bit of...

Can you feel it?  Can you feel the held breath by the media, the pundits, and those of us in the cheap seats, as the Republican National Convention approaches?   Dallas was just a warm-up, every angry mob and rent-a-mob is warming up their throwing arms and sharpening the ends...

Larry Holden’s One Fist Was Irish is pretty much A River Runs Through It, with boxing substituting for fly fishing.   Barney Nolan is a decent raspberry farmer and a great boxer.  A gentle man, he only ever fights to raise money for the farm, which he continues to...

Took almost half of the year of fantasy to get around to painting up some heroes, but they look great.  You’ll want to click on the pictures to get the full effect.  This is a 10 man pack from Ral Partha Europe’s BlightHaven line, specifically BH011: Human Mercenary Warband....

Pulp magazines have been out for a long time.  Plenty of people have noted that they provide a glimpse into the culture of days gone by.  Surely there are multiple books out there on the subject – why not just read one of those?  It would be trivially easy...

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Dear Officer, You don’t deserve this.  Sure, you may rally around men accurately accused of wrong-doing.  You might stand by and allow Trump supporters to be viciously attacked on a regular basis.  You may even repeatedly fail to protect the rights of assembly and freedom of speech, but you...

Yesterday the best little SF/F magazine that could, completed a successful Kickstarter for Issue #2. The first issue was fantastic, and that was done on little more than a wing and a prayer.  It’s going to be great to see what P. Alexander can do with some extra financial...