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Three Movies in Twenty-Four Hours
I saw three movies in twenty-four hours. It’s possible I’m on vacation. Of course, I just spent an hour reviewing all three of them, so it’s also possible I’m actually working. My job is weird. In the...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
I survived 2018 and at the end of the ride there wasn’t even a kiosk selling “I survived 2018 and all I got was a t-shirt.” Happy New Year, everyone. I hope 2019 is good to you, but my hope is couched...
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WXR 2019: Write With Us on a Cruise Ship!
The 2019 Writing Excuses Retreat is setting sail from the port of Houston this September, and you’re invited! I’ll be there with other Writing Excuses hosts, and some amazing guest instructors. The...
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Let The Sketching Begin
It’s that time of year again, when our family room is full of boxes and the game table is covered with books. The signing is complete, but I still need to sketch in around 1500 books. The sketching is...
View ArticleSketching is About Half Done
I’m about half-way finished with the book sketching—a little over half of the Delegates And Delegation books are sketched, and a little under half of the Broken Wind books are sketched. I had a...
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Alita: Battle Angel
I’m having difficulty summing up my feelings about Alita: Battle Angel. In part this is because the family trip to the movies ended up in an argument about whether or not it was a good movie, and the...
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Captain Marvel
Cutting straight to the chase here, I love this movie. Captain Marvel clears my Threshold of Awesome with room to spare. I’ve wanted more genre-movie Brie Larsen since seeing her in Kong: Skull Island,...
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Hello, It’s Been A While, Is This Thing On?
It’s been a while since I blogged about anything. For those of you awaiting movie reviews, I apologize. I’ve been busy with a great many things, and kind of forgot how to leave the house. Building this...
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SHAZAM!
I saw SHAZAM! at the megaplex this morning. It started slow, but the familial relationships are central to the story—they’re much more than just a screen against which someone gets super-powers—so by...
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Hellboy
The new Hellboy film is fun, and gooey, and gross, and David Harbour does just fine taking up the horns and crown from Ron Perlman. Yes, Perlman’s chin (and entire demeanor) felt almost typecast for...
View ArticleThere Won’t Be Spoilers
I’ll be seeing Avengers: Endgame on Friday morning. My review will be pretty basic. I’ll let you know if I liked it, and I’ll tell you whether or not it boosts my Infinity War review back up over my...
View Article“Coloring Trees” Has Funded!
Keliana Tayler’s “Coloring Trees” project has funded! I love the project, and am absolutely unbiased except maybe a teency bit. There are just six days remaining, so if noodling in fancy coloring books...
View ArticleAvengers: Endgame
As promised, here is my spoiler-free review. 1) I really liked it. 2) It clears my Threshold of Awesome 3) It retroactively boosted my enjoyment of Avengers: Infinity War. I’ll say more later. I do...
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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Take a pokéball and fill it with nostalgia. Then shout “I CHOOSE YOU” and throw it. Depending on whether you’ve given your Nostalgia the right kind of pokéberries, it will have evolved into PURE JOY....
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Originals on eBay! Discounts in the Store!
First, the inciting incident: We’ve had a few months of unexpected expenses, including one major appliance failure, two dental emergencies, and the urgent replacement of a video card and 32gb of RAM....
View ArticleMTHFR and Avocado Toast
I got my genes scanned, and we found cool things. For starters, we found that we could get my genes scanned by using FedEx to send a Q-tip to a laboratory. The 21st century has its problems, for sure,...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
I’m not sure what I was expecting from Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but it neither surprised me nor disappointed me, and I enjoyed it quite a bit, so I guess what I was expecting was a Godzilla...
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Watch Me Play D&D Tonight!
Tonight (Tuesday, June 4th, 2019) at 7pm (9pm EDT) I’ll be a guest player at the Typecast RPG table. That link leads to their Twitch stream, so you’ll be able to watch live as I make a half-orc of...
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Some Pokémon Go Fan-Art
The embarrassing thing is not that Pokémon Go is the most exercise I’ve had in a year, nor that I still haven’t figured out how to dodge during a raid battle. The embarrassing thing is that I’ve been...
View ArticleNineteen Years
Today, June 12th, 2019, marks the 19th anniversary of Schlock Mercenary on the web. The comic has updated daily, every day, without fail, for nineteen years now. Not because I’m a machine, but because...
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