I honestly don’t mean for this to become the Ficly blog. I swear. There’s already one of those, and I don’t need that kind of pressure. I just felt the need to point out that I am now approximately 1/12th of the way through the Ficly 365 challenge. Upon completion and posting of today’s story, […]
Ficly 365 progress
Well, it’s only been a week, but it’s been a successful one! In conjunction with my new goals for 2010, I’ve created a new Ficly story so far for each of the 7 days of January. It’s been a great experience so far. I feel like I’ve been stretching some muscles I haven’t had a […]
Good-bye two-thousand nine, hello twenty-ten
Is it the reflective time of year already? My how time flies when you only manage to craft one blog post a month for an entire year. Of course, it should be noted that that is completely intentional. 2009 was a pretty good year overall, with the one exception of the current month of December, […]
Obsessively over-analyzing the word “grey” (or “gray”)
Someone on Twitter that I follow mentioned the allegedly “British” spelling of the word “grey”. I love discussing the word “grey” because it’s one of those beautifully awkward words that has morphed its way through our meat grinder of a language, and one of the few words where I have a specific personal set of […]
Hulu Viewlu: Stargate and Dollhouse
I’ve been on a bit of a Hulu bender recently, attempting to slog my way through the deluge of queued-up television shows that need to be watched before they expire, like a bad piece of fruit. I’ve probably got roughly 372 videos in my queue. Last night I calculated my total remaining watch-time and it’s […]
Steampunk Darth Vader Lego
This weekend, I was showing my son some artwork based on the steampunk Star Wars concept and explaining the general idea behind the steampunk subgenre as a whole. Being an avid Lego builder, he was apparently inspired to put together his own steampunk Star Wars creation. I present to you Caleb’s steampunk Darth Vader Lego […]
Help us name our pulp fiction anthology!
So, myself and an eclectic collection of wanna-be authors are presently working on writing short stories for our very own anthology. The catch is that the stories are all pulp fiction (this pulp fiction, not that one). We have quite the extraordinary mix at the moment: a handful of hard-boiled detective stories, at least one […]
Marvel vs. DC: Zombies eating your brains
I must have a thing for Brad Guigar since this is the second post in a row where I link to him. However, in this case, we are definitely not in agreement. Read what he had to say last week in regards to DC’s current Blackest Night storyline. Feh. I still say this plot reads […]
Art is work and writer’s block is a myth
It’s obviously a fairly incendiary title for a blog post, but one that I feel is for the most part true. My thoughts on this were sparked by a blog post by Brad Guigar over on Webcomics.com called Writer’s Block: It’s a Myth where Brad muses in a straightforward way that writer’s block is not […]
Iowa State Fair 2009: some observations
So, yesterday AND today we hauled the entire family — myself, my wife, our two boys, and our brand new (1 month old) daughter — to the Iowa State Fair. It’s a trek we take every year, though not always twice. This year was slightly more problematic than in previous years, though not necessarily for […]