So I’ve had the cover art for Infected on my cell phone for a little while now, courtesy infectednovel.com. This weekend my daughter finally took notice of it and asked about it. I explained it was the cover for a book by one of my favorite authors, and the hardback was coming out […]

Capping off an excellent, and for the most part unscheduled, weekend, Brianna and I headed over to the Little Shoppe of Games after church today. Jess and James joined us for lunch before the gaming, and Jess came to play when James headed off to work.

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No, it hasn’t actually burst into flame, but it might as well have for all the use I can get out of it now.
Back in early February, my laptop suddenly stopped booting, about a month after I had replaced it’s dying 60GB drive with a much nicer 250GB model. I took it in to […]

Documentaries are not normally my thing when I pick out movies. I guess while I often prefer realism in my entertainment, outright reality doesn’t often do it for me. Considering the number of documentaries there are on topics that interest me, I should probably watch more of them, but there it is.
That being […]

It’s good that there are people like my friend Litch around, or I would miss news stories like this.
It looks like the book reviewers over at the New York Times are in league with the robots who will conquer us all. In an effort to hide the very real threat of mechanical annihilation, they […]

One of my co-workers sent me this. I have no idea where it came from, but I thought it awesome enough to share. Enjoy. Click the image to view it’s full size.

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As you might have guessed from the link in the sidebar, we’re coming down to the last few days before Scott Sigler’s Infected hits the shelves at a bookstore near you. This is incredibly exciting for anyone interested in the new publishing paradigms; it really shows that by giving your work away for free […]

I make no secret about, nor to I apologize for, my love for the movie Crank.  It has to be the most brilliant satire of the 80s action flick I’ve ever seen.  They pared everything down to the barest minimum plot needed to drive the absolutely insane and over-the-top action, and made no secret about […]

Tonight was a fairly laid back game night at Little Shoppe of Games.  When I got there, Lane was hanging out with another customer.  We chatted for a bit, then Lane suggested we try out Chateau Roquefort, which he had laid out on one of the tables.  The other guy demurred, preferring to play some […]

There seems to be an unspoken rule in making good movies, or really in telling a good story in any format: something of interest needs to happen.  Sadly, the makers of They Came Back (also known as Les Revenants) figured the rules don’t apply to them.  This movie committed the cardinal sin of entertainment: it […]