lol. lmao, even. Apparently the Hugos were hosted in China in 2023 and apparently the Chinese government let it be known that certain authors had offended them, and apparently the Hugo committee complied by declaring certain books and authors ineligible to be voted on. There were other shenanigans and frauds and blah blah blah, and… Read More China Ate the Hugos
This is my fourth overall poetry collection, and third published to Amazon (Wonderland is Hell is available free to read here on Content Blues). It’s material from the last two years. It’s longer than Stir, and unlike The Short Cool Summer, it’s available in paperback as well. As a chronological collection, it’s going to vary… Read More One Line or Another – Now Available
Recently I published a collection of stories from Unnamed Journal, which are set in a fantasy universe I’ve been knocking around for a little while, known as Cevalon (actually the name of just one of the continents, work in progress, you get it). Equally recently, I wrote a post about Brandon Sanderson’s Laws of Magic… Read More Tygg & Drea vs. Sanderson’s Laws
This has been up since the middle of the month, but I delayed this post because we had artwork in it for the first time, and I had to be sure that Amazon could handle it. Or, if you’re the sort of person who wants an .epub AND a .pdf, you go to our Gumroad… Read More Unnamed Journal 37 – Wanna Be Anarchy!
I’m a fan of both Blood Meridian and the Coen Brothers film of No Country for Old Men, both by Cormac McCarthy, without fully understanding them. They are dense pieces of uncomfortable art that transgress what is expected, that show the world as it is, happy endings be damned. Over the long weekend, I happened… Read More Explaining Cormac McCarthy
Anyone who’s still a Star Wars fan after the last 25 years of garbage product deserves this. Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is attached to direct an upcoming “Star Wars” film, making her the first woman to helm a film in the iconic franchise—but right-wing critics are blasting the movie as “woke” after Obaid-Chinoy said it’s… Read More Viral Anti-Marketing at Work: The New Star Wars Director Said Some Things. Get Mad, Nerds.
The beast is hungry. Luke Combs took to social media Wednesday morning to say that he was “sick to my stomach” after waking up to learn that he had won a $250,000 judgment against a Florida woman who’d earned $380 selling 18 handmade drink tumblers with his likeness on them. The country superstar said he was… Read More Luke Combs Wins a Lawsuit He didn’t Know He was In, Ends up giving money to the Defendant
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is one of those movies that I mildly disliked upon first viewing, but has come to grow on me. It is based on a Canadian comic book series that I have never read. I recently watched the first four episodes of the new animated series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, which… Read More Things That Annoy Me About Scott Pilgrim
It’s become a commonplace that streaming services are treacherous. You put your faith in them to provide you with content, and they pull it according to bean-counter whim and puritanical outrage. Physical media is the only way to preserve culture! Even directors are getting in the act: Christopher Nolan recently made headlines when he humorously urged fans… Read More Looney Tunes, Fandom, and physical vs. Streaming
I have never read anything by Brandon Sanderson. Not for any particular reason; I’m just not a very diligent reader of fantasy. I like certain authors, and dislike others. My taste runs to either high fantasy (Tolkein), or pulp fantasy (Brust). The mid-level stuff has always bored me. I think the problem lies in the… Read More The Laws of Fantasy Magic and Other Nerderies
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