Sometimes I get to write a sentence – one sentence – that is straight pulp, like Saturday morning cartoons or bubble helmeted heroes fighting green monsters on an alien world.… Read More Long Live the (Well Executed) Trope
These are some of the books I read last month and what I thought of them…… Read More What I’ve Been Reading Lately 12-18
The last few weeks, I’ve been running a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It’s my first time as a DM. None of the players had played before. They’ve played console RPGs before, like Skyrim and Fable, and they’ve recently had an absolutely unhealthy obsession with Catan, but this is their first foray into old-school pen and… Read More Tabletop Gaming and Fantasy
These are the books I read last month, and what I thought of them.… Read More What I’ve Been Reading Lately
This post first appeared in 2012, before our opinion of Facebook got even worse. It therefore is somewhat dated. -JU In 1956, Isaac Asimov wrote The Naked Sun, second in a series of science fiction murder mysteries starring Earth detective Elijah Baley and his human-appearing robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw. I highly recommend The Naked Sun, as… Read More The Naked Facebook
About Black Panther’s ultra-fucking-cool Afrofuturism. The film is absolutely gorgeous and lush. If you dug that aesthetic and wonder where you can find more like it, well:… Read More Black Panther and Afrofuturism
