I apologize for not posting much lately, I've had a few things on my mind that have made thinking straight kind of difficult :p  But today I'm not going to talk about those things, today I need to rant :p

Also, spoilers ahead, kind of.

I don't think I've mentioned George R.R. Martin much on this blog, but let me make my position totally clear before ( Read more... )

Is it terrible of me that when an old friend, that I haven't talked to in years, calls me and says that they want to get together and re-connect, I instantly think "Multi-Level Marketing thing"?

Bleh, this has been a really terrible week, though in a way, it's been nice that everything that has gone wrong has been purely physical rather than the usual emotional trainwreck stuff that is more common in my life ( Read more... )

I've been in quite a foodie mood lately, both cooking at home and watching food shows (I've fallen in love with Gordon Ramsay's UK shows), but now I'm in the mood for some cooking manga, and I've realized that this is one genre that I'm at a bit of a loss on.  Offhand, I can only think of three good examples of what I'm looking for, manga (or ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted anything on my on-going series, and all of them have had some pretty major events recently, so it seems like a good time ( Read more... )

(Note to self - there are many TV shows that can be watched while trying to write - Lost is not one of them.)

Over the years I've ended up reading a lot of Simon Green's books, and most of them just haven't quite measured up.  Hawk and Fisher's world is just a little too "gritty" and amoral for my tastes, and the Deathstalker books were a little too ( Read more... )

The best thing about having money again is getting to catch up on my huge backlog of books I meant to buy.  So it's been great the last couple months pretty much reading new stuff non-stop in my spare time. For some reason though, most of what I've been in the mood for has all been in the same "sub-genre"; what I call Urban Fantasy Noir.  Think ( Read more... )

I'm in a rather cranky mood today; I ended up getting in a discussion about my absolute least favorite endings to otherwise excellent books/series/movies, and that always tends to get my blood pressure up.  So, instead of bottling it up, I thought it would be more cathartic to do some venting over the interwebz.

So, the ground rules:  I'm mostly ( Read more... )

I'm pretty excited- my Starcraft-LAN group, which was kind of "yeah, whenever we have time" has turned into a scheduled monthly thing now.  And to mix things up a bit, this next one is going to be all about board games; Settlers of Catan, Race for the Galaxy, etc.  On one hand, I've never been more than an indifferent student of board games, but on ( Read more... )

It's no secret that Mercedes Lackey is on my short list of authors that I despise.  So, as I mentioned in my last post, I've avoided the Obsidian Trilogy for years.  But I have to say, I think I was missing out.  There's still another three to go, but the first three were a surprisingly tolerable read.  Mostly due, in my opinion, to Lackey herself ( Read more... )