Learning to be Terser…
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | Blogging | Comments
…in which I talk about my style of writing and share with you the insights of my creative process.
Earlier this week, I posted my personal thoughts on Inglourious Basterds, an article which I greatly anticipated sharing. I was very proud of my process in preparing and writing the review, and was equally proud of the result. One thing I have learned in my writing, is that I frequently surprise myself. When I am writing, the process almost becomes more like reading as the story flows from me of its own accord. This does, however, lead to a lot of unexpected turns and discoveries that then must be focused and refined. As with most writing, it contained more than I had expected, and simultaneously still overlooked key points I intended to cover. The process of writing is a compromise with ones self to share that which needs to be shared without losing your reader, but not sacrificing your voice.
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Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France…
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | Entertainment | Comments
…in which I talk about those Inglourious Basterds.
I am going to make the bold assumption up front that if you are reading this, you are at least familiar with the upcoming Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds. Wednesday, I had the privilege of seeing Tarantino’s take on WWII. While it is from historically accurate, I can hardly concern myself with that because one thing I’ve come to expect from Tarantino is the importance of style and story. Everything else comes second. Why should the fiddly facts of human history be any different.
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Cherish Everything…
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 | Family | Comments
…In which I talk about a recent dream and the advice I’d like to pass on to my son.
So, a couple of days ago, just after waking up from a dream, I rushed to the computer and wrote down as much as I could so as to remember it as vividly as possible. I did this because it ended in a message that I want to pass on to Ansel when he’s old enough to understand.
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I Shall Look Down Upon You From My Treetop Perch…
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | Blogging | Comments
…in which I talk about why I would spend a week in a treehouse, rather than a tent or an underground bunker.
There is something fantastical and magical about treehouses. While a tent still gets you out in the wilderness, and has the advantage of being portable, a treehouse is a symbol of childlike wonder. A treehouse is a iconic image of carefree childhood, of a time where you needn’t follow social rules. Your house could be anywhere and your imagination turned it into anything. Your treehouse was your bastion in the sky from everything that hunted and haunted you.
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Twitter is Giving me Shit…
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Blogging | Comments
…in which I talk about nothing but strangling myself with my own Twitter account.
Okay. The other day I laughed at Chase for having so many WordPress/Twitter problems. Today, he can do all the laughing he wants.
My chest is choking me…
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Blogging | Comments
…in which I talk about gut wrenching guilt.
I screwed up. If you are reading this in an RSS feeder and don’t want to see what was supposed to be a hidden, obscured, and off-linked spoiler to Tranformers 2, then do yourself a favor and go directly to my site for a screened and spoiler safer version and just mark all my other posts as read and move on.
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They keep Transforming and Rolling out…
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Entertainment | Comments
…in which I talk about our advance screening of Transformers 2, and pretty much nothing else.
Last night we had the opportunity, thanks to Chase at Gordon and the Whale, to see Transformers 2 in an advance screening. It wasn’t too much in advance since people will be able to see it tonight at midnight, but we got to go for free, and got to see it at a reasonable hour, so it was still a great deal. Thanks again, Chase, for hooking me up! › Continue reading
Six Blades of Death…
Monday, May 4th, 2009 | Entertainment | Comments
…in which I talk about X-Men Origins: Wolverine
As luck would have it, Wolverine came out on May first so I would actually have money to go see it opening weekend. Had it come out any earlier or any later I would have likely missed it and just waited for it to come to DVD. But having seen it in the theater, I know now that I would have been disappointed if I had been forced to wait.
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Every time it grows out, we just cut it back again…
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | Home | Comments
…in which I talk about being a homeowner and lawn care.
I have a love hate relationship with my yard and the environmental factors that effect it. It needn’t be said that I am, at my core, a fairly lazy person. That, and in my more recent years, I have become a significantly less shallow person as well. Arguably, I was never exceedingly shallow, but there are moments in my memories that I regret because I know that my personal sense of aesthetic ruined possibilities that now lie in an alternate universe. That being said, I still hate what all of this means to my front yard.
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It’s a Free Action to Drop a Weapon…
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | Entertainment | Comments
…in which I talk about my first real miniature alteration.
I’ve been playing in my first 4th edition D&D game for a few months now and I’ve been using the mini that I found best represented my character. The only downside to him, was that he was wielding all the wrong weapons. So, when I purchased the mini, I also purchased a package of weapons to be swapped into his hands. I’ve researched miniature modification online and learned the best and easiest practices for swapping weapons cleanly, so I was all ready to do it. I even spent twice as much on the weapon pack as I did on the figure itself so that he could be carrying that vicious khopesh.
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