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Books, Reviews

The Years of Rice and Salt

You may have noticed it has been a while since I have talked about what I am reading. There is a very good reason for this. The reason is that I have been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, which is 763 small-print pages long, and as I may have mentioned before… Continue reading The Years of Rice and Salt

Poetry, Words, Writing

Spam Poetry Revisited

I was writing another post for today, but it got a little out of hand. Like, the kind of out of hand that happened that time I wrote about Easy A in eight parts. This one will probably go up later, maybe as more than one post, after I have done some more example-gathering and research,… Continue reading Spam Poetry Revisited

Drunk Movie Monday

Drunk Movie Monday – Gor

Welcome to the second installment of Drunk Movie Monday! Yes, this is actually going to be a thing from now until I get bored of it. This month,  we're sticking with the sci-fi theme, but taking it back a couple of decades to the 80s. Really, just about any film from the 80s is a… Continue reading Drunk Movie Monday – Gor

Personal Story, Writing

A Personal NaNoWriMo Retrospective

Alright, so I know November isn't over yet and thus, technically, NaNoWriMo is still going on, but I wanted to talk about NaNo as close to the end date as possible, and with Drunk Movie Monday happening the first week in December, that means today. I've already talked about why everybody should do NaNoWriMo, but… Continue reading A Personal NaNoWriMo Retrospective

Personal Story, Writing

The Car Stereo Game

Yellow! (It rhymes with hello--get it?) Tomorrow is my little brother's 21st birthday. My little brother is pretty great as little brothers go, and I like him well enough, so his pending birthday has me remembering funny shit that happened when we were little. Remembering it made me want to write about it, so I… Continue reading The Car Stereo Game