Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! My apologies. I'm a big Alien fan, so I'm going to blather on about Romulus again. But this is the last time. For now. I have made progress on my targets from last week, will update you later. The second viewing of A:R. Spoilers Spoilers Spoilers. You have …
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Alien: Romulus Instant Reaction
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Not a Tuesday? I just had to write and share this instantly, with little in the way of self-editing in order to provide a raw reaction. It's not short. I still ended up thinking about things not related to the movie as I talked, but here it is …
Lessons from the artistic evolution of others: Frank Miller’s Born Again
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some reading of comics again. Specifically some of Frank Miller’s work on Daredevil. I read Vol 1. of his work with Klaus Janson, and am now reading Born Again. Volume one of his Daredevil run, where he was not initially writing the stories, only illustrating, …
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Fallout versus Halo: Mystery box deathmatch
Hello my friends and the occasional relative! These have been the weeks of late arrival in the blogosphere for me. I’ve put something out every Tuesday for a year and more now. Small potatoes for some. An achievement for others. As you all know, I have a Vast Global Reach™ (VGR), and I take that …
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Halo Season 2 Finale: Mystery Box Explosion Edition
So. That was that. First impressions immediately after watching. Please recall I have watched this show once through, and not with insanely close attention, so if there are actually explanations for the many things that annoyed me, great, but they weren’t clear enough for me to catch in one viewing, which is a narrative problem …
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A Quiet Week and SPFBO 8 cohort #9
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This week has been a slow one in terms of achievements and deadlines because my next deadline is August 12th, when all my feedback on The Slaves and the Djinn (still debating that title, by the way) is due back. I received more feedback this week, and it …
Vague Readings of my SPFBO 8 Cohort, #8
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So in my hiatus from frenzied deadline achievement I have finished the short story I started last week, though it needs to be polished. It is funny, but with a short story you do get a sense of how much you can alter the story by the sheen …
Reading my SPFBO8 cohort #7, with finishing rant about AI (again), and 19 problems
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Yes it all gets rather confusing now, doesn’t it. SPFBO 9 is now up and running, but I’m still doing my vague reviews from SPFBO 8 and I’m on my 7th book. Voracious reader, me. (Too much internet, too little book is the truth.) Book 7 was better …
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Reading my SPFBO Cohort #6
Hello my friends and the occasional relative! SPFBO 8 is over, its winner revealed here. Congratulations to Small Miracles! A close run contest – check it out for some quality writing and great stories! So I finally finished #6. For me this is head and shoulders the best of the six I have read. It …
The Writing Life: Edinburgh Chip shops and fantasy city design, a diversion
Time Passes. Hello, friends and the occasional relative! I visited my home town of Edinburgh recently, and while much had stayed the same, a lot had changed. Profound, I know. So I’m going to talk about chip shops. First, I am convinced that if you want the real experience of fried fish in Scotland, don’t …
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Roderick T. Macdonald 