Publication Date is August 11th. It will be available in both ebook and paper back. It’s my first mystery story, and it’s set in the fantasy world, Cevalon, that the Tygg and Drea stories also belong to. This has been a project long in the works. I started it years ago, set it aside, rediscovered… Read More Don’t Touch The Dead, now Available for Pre-Order!
There’s two pieces of new content, so I’m smushing them together. First, New issue of Unnamed Journal. These may be acquired in the usual places, such as Gumroad, and our Patreon. Also, Amazon, if you’re into that sort of thing. But wait, there’s more! Podcast updates! Two-part podcast episode on the Japanese rock-and-roll zombie movie… Read More Shallow & Pedantic summer Update
If you’re one of our Patreon subscribers, you’ve had access to this episode of the Shallow & Pedantic Podcast for a little while. But if you’re not, why then… here it is. The habit now is to bust these episodes into smaller increments, less-than-an-hour: We are expecting to record a new episode this weekend, so… Read More New Old Podcasts: Shallow & Pedantic does the Second Dune Movie
Recently, Saturday Night Live said the quiet part out loud, trying to make fun of white Souncloud rappers as being Inauthentic: Now, I don’t have a dog in the hunt of what is and is not Hip-Hop. I don’t care that much about it. But the skit proves the opposite of the intended joke. Queen… Read More The Yeet Skirt Song is completely Valid as Hip-Hop: Why Imperial Gatekeeping Fails
One of the hilarious consequences of the almost total abandonment of the CD format, smashed between the analog resurgence of vinyl and digital moving to streaming, is that CD’s you actually can actually find (neighborhood record stores usually have shelves of the bastards) and want to buy now cost about what you’d pay for them… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Aesthetic Extreme Makeover Home Edition
There’s a level of show-biz bullshit that’s so profoundly dense it begs to be lit on fire. When you’re talking about Bridgerton, which turns Regency Romance into Current-Year preach-lit, the temptation is the more profound. And now they’re trying to sell getting the actress naked as some kind of transgressive act, because she’s overweight. This… Read More Naked Girls Get Extra Naked – A Fisking of Bridgerton Noise
The true beast of the Pandemic has returned, and now it will devour it’s own genre. Behold, as the most popular documentary of this century destroys Fair Use: The rule of Fair Use requires that the use of a content be “transformative”, i.e., you’re using it to do something with it other than what the… Read More Tiger King Destroys Everything
Variety has an actually non-excruciating article, about the results of the WGA Strike: The Writers Guild of America called a strike one year ago today, declaring that the streaming boom had created an existential crisis for writers. The WGA got most of what it wanted from the strike, though it took almost five months for the studios and streamers to come… Read More The End of Infinite TV
Because it’s that magical time of year, when a young man’s fancy turns to varietal short fiction. Here’s what’s comin’ at ya: You get a .pdf and .epub of the issue with your subscription to the Shallow & Pedantic Patreon. It’s available in the same formats on Gumroad. And of course, Amazon, which also has… Read More Unnamed Journal 38 – Mechanical Nirvana
I was a Strokes fan back in the day. I discovered them in a music store in a mall in 2001, when I bought their first album Is This It on CD. I loved it instantaneously as a sugar-rush amalgam of every under-celebrated New Wave band: Television, the Modern Lovers, a dollop of Doug Yule-era… Read More In Praise of Comedown Machine
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