2019 Roundup or I Got Sick Again, Have Some Links

I’ve not been feeling great the past couple of days. It happens. I was going to do this post at the beginning of the year, but decided to instead save it for a day just like today, when I wasn’t feeling well. So, instead of my normal post, here’s some of my favorite things I’ve …

Oh Dear Merciful Jesus, We Don’t Need a Bloodshot Movie

Just last post, I talked about how the 90’s were a dark time for comic books, a dark time full of bad writing and excessive gore. The one real good thing I can say about the 90’s is, as terrible as they were for comics, it’s an era that we escaped from, an era we …

7 Things I Tried for NaNo (That Failed)

So we’re in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, and I haven’t even talked about it yet. That’s just not how things are done around here, and I decided it was time to fix it. Now, last year I made some posts about NaNo and tips and tricks for managing it.  Stay motivated …

Remaking Princess Bride is a Terrible Idea

The internet rumor mill is a hungry beast, always looking for the next morsel to stuff into its terrible, inescapable maw. I tend to try and ignore it, because so often the rumors end up being nothing more than smoke and mirrors birthed out of the darkest corners of the web. After all, was it …

3 Great Cheesy Movies You Forgot Existed

There’s something about a certain kind of bad movie that’s just straight up fun. Whether it’s the corny one liners, the over the top action, or the complete disregard for physics or basic logic, there’s nothing quite like popping one in and turning your brain off to enjoy. However, they tend to...not exactly stick in …

Cringing at Myself: In Which I Make Fun of My Older Writings

Oh boy, this should be a fun one. So over the weekend, I went to my parent’s house for dinner. While I was there, I remembered a red folder. A red folder I had long ago blocked from my memory. A red folder that I suddenly had a burning need to find. A little bit …

The Best Lessons I Learned from Terry Pratchett

As I mentioned a little bit ago, I’m a huge Terry Pratchett fan. The Discworld novels have gotten me through some rough spots in my life. They’re hilarious and fantastic (in the traditional sense, i.e. full of fantasy, as well as the modern sense) and just...just the best.  One thing I didn’t mention though? They’re …

(Bad) Ideas from my Dreams

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve woken up or half woken up with what I was certain was an absolutely amazing idea, only to have it evaporate into nothingness by the time I got to my computer to write it down. It’s the most frustrating sensation in the world, and I felt like …

The Beginner’s Guide to Befriending an Alien

A little while back, SinderElf decided to play with the clickbait title generator and came up with a list of Fantasy article titles. I wrote “Why You Should Give Up Sex and Devote Your Life to The Elder Gods” and had far too much fun doing it, so when he did the same for Sci-Fi, I absolutely had …

Why the Urge to Jump in on Food Shaming Means you Should Re-evaluate your Life

So. #Bagelgate is a thing. If you are not caught up on your utterly inane internet controversies, someone tweeted about bread-sliced bagels - that is, bagels that are sliced into thin strips like a loaf of bread. For whatever reason, the internet hive mind decided that this was the next Big Food Controversy, on par …