When asked to answer such world-shaking questions as "What's your favorite season?" (which everyone has to have been asked, at one point) I've always been prone to lean to Autumn. The harshness of summer heat fades as the foliage fades away into sepia tones punctuated by bursts of warm sun colors. The landscape is fading away and becomes naked, ( Read more... )

It seems an inevitable cliche. We begin each New Year with a post about "another year rolling on by" and "how fast it went" and talk endlessly about what plans we have for the next, as if by saying it out in the open now that it somehow holds us accountable and, perhaps, in some fashion, has some bearing on actually succeeding. In the end though ( Read more... )

Almost exactly a year later and here I am talking about Dramacon again. Volume 2 this time. I'm sort of surprised I really haven't mentioned anything else I've enjoyed over the past year. I thoroughly loved Wolf's Rain, and I've completed several videogames, too. I also just read the Secret Garden, though I do plan to write an entry on that in ( Read more... )

Ever since I first got an internet connection back in '96 (wow, has it been 10 years?), I've always seemed to find myself at home within one niche or another. Back then, I was very much into both Redwall and Star Wars, and got involved in little fan fictions clubs and groups. I met my long-time friend Kelly Hamilton (fernblossom) through her (needless to ( Read more... )

After some prodding by George Panella (morbius_v1) I volunteered my services to Comixpedia's Summer of Guest Bloggers. The original intent was three entries. The result was two. This was the only one remotely worth repeating, so I've presented it here for your viewing pleasure. Forgive the pretentiousness; I was rather uncomfortable posting articles to ( Read more... )

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I have amassed a sizable collection of tomes on the craft of writing. One of the more recent was Stephen King's On Writing, in which he begins with something not unlike "All books on writing are bull ( Read more... )

I went to see the Georgia O'Keefe exhibit "Color and Conservation" with my family. While the selection of paintings were not my favorite, a miscellany of mostly abstract works, they really brought to my attention several facets of art that, in this day of computers, drawing tablets, and digital cameras, are often forgotten ( Read more... )

So for the past sum of Thursdays, I've eschewed my geekish computering ways for something (only marginally!) less geekish. I actually went out and socializedOf course, by marginally, I mean it. I am referring to the fact I have been attending an anime movie night/OVA campaign. The gaming group is an eclectic mix of folks, but overall it's been a ( Read more... )

There are movies you like, movies you don't like, and movies that you'll watch over and over again, though you'd probably never say "Wow, that's my favorite movie, I want to watch it over and over again."
French Kiss is one of those movies.

On the surface, French Kiss is another one of THOSE movies. You know, the ones ( Read more... )

Cheap Flights, Cheap Cigarettes, and Cheap Gambling! What more could you ask for?!

In all seriousness, the Wise Turtle Forums have become a veritable spam playground as of late. There was a time when these spammers were inventive. They'd actually bother to register accounts (Hi, "Jefferson!") and would make ambiguous replies to posts ("Wow, ( Read more... )