If you’ve been around one of my blogs for any time, you’ve heard The Parable of the Snails. New blog, so I’m rehashing it again. 1986. Mizzou. Creative Writing class. Instructor: Dick Francis, but not that Dick Francis.  Squirrelly and animated little English dude. He surprised the class with his claim to make a practice […]

Couple of caveats before I uncrate this Tasmanian Devil: My observations are anecdotal. I’ve got a file full of screencap examples that would make this post more relevant, but would make me a bigger dick for offering them up as illustrations. I am not – in any way – above or excluded from having participated […]

I’m seething. Absolutely spitting mad. Indulge me a metaphor moment, please.  The Call of Duty video game: Multiplayer mode, where our avatars swim in Sony’s map environment, humans playing against one another. There are times when I will see another guy’s avatar running across the map. Because of the angle, there is no way he […]

I had one betareader who did not like Selfie. His reasoning: Protagonist Lacey kept making all the wrong decisions. It is hard to connect with a character who keeps doing the wrong thing and always makes the worst-possible decision. Gah. Even worse, my betareader referenced one of my most-hated films: A Simple Plan. I despised […]

Alison Bechdel is a politically charged figure. If you don’t know who she is, you can google her, read her stuff, read Outrage Nation’s screeds against her, and ultimately make your own decision. Shorthand: She’s a comic book writer in the mold of R. Crumb. I don’t want to discuss Alison Bechdel, Political Icon. I […]