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GenCon Haul 2011
- Sizemore sketch from Xin, who draws Erfworld. Erfworld is easily one of my favorite webcomics. It manages to combine drama and humor effectively and is one of only two long-form comics I know that handles one-page-per-update pacing right. (The other is Girl Genius.) I had a great time geeking out with Rob Balder, and Xin was so amazingly sweet and ( Read more... )
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I'm feeling lonely. How about I post to this near-ghost-town of a social site?
I remember being nine years old and unable to ride a bike, and it seemed like all the kids on my block wanted to do was ride. We'd be playing something--freeze tag, hide and seek, visiting chemical horror on fire-ant mounds--and someone would say "let's ride bikes!" and off they'd go, leaving me behind. Once I was so frustrated after they rode off ( Read more... ) -
The Stack
Every avid reader I know has a Stack. The Stack is a collection of unread books in the reader's possession that he or she plans to read in the near future. When DVRs became popular, we readers already knew the flavor of anxiety of those who view their Tivo queues as to-do lists that keep filling up, because we'd already been feeling the same thing ( Read more... ) -
Sunday dinner
Since blissitate has not yet posted about the dinner I made on Sunday, I'll do it myself. I'll admit that I like it when she heaps praise upon me for my mad culinary skills, but I'm proud enough of my recent endeavor that I don't feel like waiting for her to do so ( Read more... ) -
Watching Thundercats as an adult, part two
Before I start in on my peanut-gallery comments again, I'd like to make a couple of clarifications. I don't think Thundercats was a bad show. It certainly aged better than lots of other cartoons I enjoyed as a child. Its animation, character designs, and writing were solid, for the most part. While there wasn't one big continuous storyline, every ( Read more... ) -
Viriconium
Viriconium
I am always reading something, but I don't often talk about what I'm reading and even more rarely do I write anything about it. I'd like to remedy that situation.
I picked up Viriconium for three reasons. First, I read and enjoyed Light, one of his more recent novels. I had read just enough other SF (like Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep ( Read more... ) -
Watching Thundercats as an adult, part one
Unlike my adult rewatching of Voltron, I do not have high expectations of Thundercats. While I found it entertaining as a kid, it was never my favorite. That being said, this entry may still be a solid argument for not looking too closely at the media from your childhood ( Read more... ) -
here it goes here it goes here it goes again
rebeccafetch tagged me with this one. It's been a while since I've been tagged, and even longer since I responded. However... I will tag no one with this list. So there. Nya-nya-nyah.
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Conspiracy's a special word
When I get an earworm, the only way for me to shake it loose is for me to hear the song frequently enough to memorize most or all of the words. When I was a freshman in college, Comedy Central ran a Schoolhouse Rock parody about Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. It was cute. It was clever. It was catchy (largely because it borrowed the ( Read more... ) -
low-budget photo blog
If you couldn't tell from my near-monthly posting schedule, I'm fairly lazy these days when it comes to blogging.
Fuzzyshot seems to be made for people like me--that is, lazy bloggers with iPhones. You sign up for an account, which creates a blog page for you. Then you download the app, and start taking pictures. The app posts the photos straight ( Read more... )