Because Facebook and other sites include the first paragraph of blog posts I’m going to pad for a bit so that no one gets things spoiled in their feed. If you want to read my (apparently pretty popular) non spoiler review of Star Trek Into Darkness, click here. I’m going to start a bit slow [...]

In short, because it’s so well done I wouldn’t want to skip it if it was on TV. If you have not seen it, watch it now (weirdly embed is broken for me, so you will have to see it at the Youtube link) I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while and needed [...]

It’s well past four in the morning. I hear the ticking of a clock I never really heard before. It’s on the kitchen wall and it’s loud. Gosh, I’ve been sick, sicker than I have been in 15 years. Food poisoning from some bad vegetables. Better now, but bad enough I’m having to miss my [...]

My paternal grandmother, my Mee Maw, died around 9:15 AM Dallas time. I’m roiling a bit in mortality, starting to realize that yes indeed, I’m across the line where life stops giving you things and it starts taking them away. Iain Banks has terminal cancer and has less than a year to live. Roger Ebert [...]

So a month ago I applied for a game writer position at TellTale games. I would KILL to write for Telltale. I’ve already written about why I think their take on The Walking Dead was game of the year for 2012 and the writing talent they have already is incredible. I can maybe think of [...]