(special request by Daniel Evan Cochran-Smith. Thanks for your support!) [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/quarantine.mp3] So The Blair Witch Project was an indy success and groundbreaking in the horror genre. And everybody loves zombies for one reason or another. Putting the two together is like getting your chocolate in my peanut butter, right? Well, it could be. Quarantine shows… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Quarantine
Televising the Revolution is for Suckers
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent… Continue reading Televising the Revolution is for Suckers
PT: Turning Negatives Into Positives
Nobody feels fantastic all the time, at least not without heavy drinking or severe medication. Creative people are, by and large, emotional and thus emotional blindsides getting hit can knock you right off of the rails you’d been riding towards the completion of a project. How do you deal with this sort of thing, other… Continue reading PT: Turning Negatives Into Positives
Round the Table: D&D For All
When Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was announced in 2007, the reaction was somewhat mixed. Much of the community had found 3rd Edition to be a little cumbersome, though less so than the THAC0 days of AD&D. While my memories of lunchtime dungeon crawls in junior high are no less fond these days, albeit somewhat… Continue reading Round the Table: D&D For All
Everything's Cooler In Space: Rolling The Dice
I know a lot of you folks are running around doing the Nanowrimo thing. You have my deepest respect and best wishes. If you want some really good advice that will make milk shoot out of your nose, go here. You’ll need to be drinking milk for it to shoot out, of course, milk won’t… Continue reading Everything's Cooler In Space: Rolling The Dice
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Special: Changeling Audio
Despite the fact I’m doing something else for the Escapist’s video contest, I still have this audio from my last IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! feature. If this format isn’t too atrocious, I might do another of these. [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/changeling.mp3] Download the MP3 here. Original text is here.
On the Tube: White Collar
The major networks – CBS, NBC and ABC in this country – seem to have cornered the market on procedurals. In fact, it could be argued that procedurals are overrated. However, occasionally a show will try to take the procedural formula and go in a different direction. Take a cop show, for example, and give… Continue reading On the Tube: White Collar
Works In Progress II: Electric Boogaloo
So between items I need to fix for my day job, here’s a few snapshots of things I’d rather be doing with my time this morning. Poor Lighthouse. I keep meaning to bang out more words in that novel but other things keep coming up. It’s only going to be an e-book, sure, but it’s… Continue reading Works In Progress II: Electric Boogaloo
PT: Sentence Building
So this section used to be called “Breaking Writer’s Block” back in the early days of the blog. However, it has been proven by scientists that writer’s block is complete and utter bullshit. In light of this revelation, it’s necessary to rebrand this service I’m attempting to provide. So rather than breaking writer’s block, we… Continue reading PT: Sentence Building
Jotting in the Margins: The Need to Write
“…. Writing is anti-social. It’s as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone… and not even know that he’s doing it. As writers’ wives and husbands often learn to their horror. And- attend me carefully Gwen!-… Continue reading Jotting in the Margins: The Need to Write
