Movie Review: Vengeance: A Love Story

Hello Again, I just finished watching this movie and I have thoughts. It is not a great movie. It is, at its best, an average movie. There are small moments here and there that make it interesting and there are some very large plot arcs that also make it interesting, at least to me. ****Just … Continue reading Movie Review: Vengeance: A Love Story →

Care About Other People

Hello Again, Today, there was a news report about a woman who has the measles and who apparently decided to travel through every major population center in Eastern Massachusetts. Now, ten years ago, I don't think she would have hit the news, much less having articles tracking her progress through Massachusetts like new anchors tracking … Continue reading Care About Other People →

Ideas

Hello Again, I've never been someone that believes in writer's block. There's always something you can be working on, always something you can be making. Granted, I say that as someone that has never needed to survive by writing on a deadline. I can always flit back and forth from one story to another and … Continue reading Ideas →

Beer Review: Wormtown Brewery’s Sweet Tats

Hello Again, So I have a weird relationship with porters and stouts. A lot of the time, I'll try, say, one of the many variations of Guinness and it's...empty. There's some flavor at the front and some bitterness at the back and there's just nothing holding up in the middle. But! With Imperial Stouts, there … Continue reading Beer Review: Wormtown Brewery’s Sweet Tats →

An Update

Hello Again, Whenever I do one of these insane writing challenges, I feel the need to beat myself up about not meeting the self imposed rules that are, often, brutally unfair. That being said, I am going to say that as a result of this challenge (one blog entry, one five hundred word story per … Continue reading An Update →

Be Superman

Hello Again, One of the most important lessons that we can learn from superhero comics is the idea that we should be like Superman. Superman is the purest distillation of what a superhero is: someone with abilities decides to use those abilities to help others. Its not just about fighting crime, because Superman does a … Continue reading Be Superman →

Scary Fear

Hello Again, I think about horror a lot. I think about horror movies, horror short fiction, horror novels, about the things that terrify us day-to-day. Horror is a vital thing, an important thing and a thing worth studying. I've had a project in the back of my mind, something I've been thinking about working but … Continue reading Scary Fear →

An Education in Cruelty

Hello Again, I am pretty angry about Betsy DeVos and her decision to cut federal funding to the Special Olympics. I believe that the responsibility of the government is to take care of its citizens. That is its sole function. It takes care of the citizens. We may disagree on the best way to do … Continue reading An Education in Cruelty →

Writing On Writing About Writing for a Writer

Hello Again, I've been going back and forth on what I want this blog to be and that's just given me plenty of great excuses to not write anything. And, if there's anything I excel at, it's creating excuses. In an attempt to make sure that I write something, anything, in this space, I'm freeing … Continue reading Writing On Writing About Writing for a Writer →

Welcome Back

Hello, It has been a long time, but I think it's time to come back. Since I stopped writing here, I have been writing. I have, in fact, never stopped, but I needed to stop writing here. Part of it was that I just don't know how to tackle this format without getting very angry. … Continue reading Welcome Back →