Flawed Diamonds

Have you seen those trailers? Pacific Rim is gong to be the first IMAX film I see, and the first 3d film I see. Yeah, I'm that t...

I have come to realize that I have a distrust of people who are described as 'strong leaders'. We consider the democracy the most c...

Sometimes I think that we don't die of old age, we die of the accumulated sorrow of missing our friends. Yesterday, one of the most ge...

Yesterday, I picked up  Hellblazer #300.   The final issue.  I'm sad.  John Constantine, the archetypal Sweary British Mage, has been ...

My Pathfinder game is coming along nicely.  The PCs are living and working in Osirion, the Ancient Egypt analog of the Inner Sea.  They'...

I'm a Godzilla fan.  I make no apologies.  I enjoyed David Kalat's Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series b...

I live in a medium-sized town, and as a a result, I have to make my own fun.  Sure, there's other fun to be had that other people do, bu...

Last month, I wrote about fear .  Fear of embarrassing oneself is often a hitch factor in creativity.  "What if this idea is no good?...

For a good time?  Go to an author's reading.  The Northshire Bookstore recently had an author signing for Nancy Marie Brown who has ju...

A strange experience today.  The Boss was talking about the need to come up with an idea for a store Christmas tree.  He didn't want one...