Novel Review: Blood’s Pride by Eve Manieri

Military fantasy. It’s a genre dominated by men, both inside and out. The characters are distinguished by their accomplishments in battle, their thirst for glory, the amounts of testosterone that drive them (especially the women) and their physical appearances. Your species informs a huge part of your character, both in terms of what you are […]

BTVS Fan Fiction Excerpt: Meaningful Sacrifices (Working Title)

I hate doing things the normal way, Willow thought. It’s all…slow. She had everything she needed laid out: eggs, flour, milk…a computer in the other room with a brand new Facebook profile in need of tending to, Dawny in San Francisco applying for college…and all of those ingredients needed to be mixed together before […]

Star Wars Review: Tales of the Jedi–The Saga of Nomi Sunrider

If the shock of Ulic Qel-Droma and the Beastriders of Onderon was the presence of more than one Jedi one place, The Saga of Nomi Sunrider introduces another strange element, something that would remain out of place for film Jedi for years to come, that would to this day seem unusual for casual audiences to […]

Lyrics: Fried Chicken

This is another horror lyric that I wrote a few years back, just freestyling in my head at work. I rarely remember the lyrics completely, but I tried to stay as faithful to the freestyle as possible – hence the 15 bars instead of 16.

Film Review: 1998’s Blade

When I wrote this review, I had no idea who David S. Goyer was, at least beyond the scope of Blade. Several of the points made here are made very interesting by the fact that as I was writing about Blade’s connection to Batman, a Goyer-scripted Batman film was being released on DVD.