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
We are way past the De Stihl aesthetic of Volume 3. UJ has always been a mashup of whatever the hell is in our head at the time. Sci-Fi and Lovecraft seems to be the cranium’s locus for this one, especially as regards Cantilever Jones Gets Lost, a series that’s probably due for an anthology… Read More Unnamed Journal 35 – R’lyeh Tired
Not really. I think I had that in mind when I conceived the episode, but when it came time to do the recording, we were far more even-handed. Kevin Smith has moved beyond his View Askew films from the 90’s, and although he’s done other things the universal critical consensus is that he’s never really… Read More Shallow & Pedantic 13: Let us Now Abuse Kevin Smith
Every now and again, because I do not learn, I google the phrase “winds of winter”, the title for the next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series (remember Game of Thrones?). I do this because, nine years ago, I did this for “A Dance With Dragons” and happened to catch a… Read More Time for the Yearly George R.R. Martin Abuse Post
What you’re looking at here is the standalone stories from Volumes 2, 3, and 4 of Unnamed Journal. These include some very weird tales and some hilarious pieces as well. We’ve got Kaiser Wilhelm yelling at his generals in “How I’m Pretty Sure World War I Started”. We’ve got a strange love affair with a… Read More The Singles Collection is Here!
Me, Personally, I love the cover. It’s one of my favorites. And in keeping with the spirit of the times and the content of the issue. It’ll be up on Gumroad tomorrow, but if you want it now, well… Become a Patron!
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This went up on the Patreon last week for subscribers, and went up on iTunes and Spotify not long after. It a podcast in theme of earlier episodes: exploring the gulf between a novel and its film adapation (in this case, The Shining) and what it is that Horror does. There’s some loud mike action… Read More Shallow & Pedantic 4: We All Shine On
Currently, I’m trying to launch a brand. I dislike that phrase but there it is. I’ve set up the following things: A Patreon A Podcast A YouTube Channel A Twitter A Gumroad (soon) Additionally, I’m producing content for the next issue of UJ (out next month), and I’m trying to grease the creative wheels on… Read More Managing the Flow
I’ve started doing the layout work. One of the things we’ve used UJ for is world-building. I’ve created some shorts in a fantasy world, Cevalon, that I conceived long ago. I’ve sketched out a space opera universe as well, under the tentative title “Gods of the Sky”. And there’s the Drunk Vampire Hunter stories, and… Read More Unnamed Journal Singles Collection
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