I actually appreciate The Walking Dead a lot. I’m happy there’s original programming out there somewhere that’s not reality television, even if I’m a little mistifyed why this is The American Movie Classics channel’s responsibility. The series is well acted, well-written, and has high production values. People who like it have every [...]

Last night, the Elf and I watched 2010: Moby Dick. If you’re YouTube-powered, here’s the trailer:

The movie is by no means “good.” We found it very entertaining, however, in large part because the movie took itself seriously. I am thoroughly tired of movies that apologize for their own existence by poking fun at [...]

Instapaper creator Marco Arment is concerned that a lot of writing is moving to Facebook and Google Plus’s walled gardens:

All of these proprietary networks that want to own and hold in your content are reversing much of the web’s progress in some other areas, such as the durability and quality of online identity.

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I have a shelf of books on how to draw, and none of them have ever done me any good. I have another shelf of books on how to write fiction. Those have profited me but little.

There’s a lot of information in those books, but what I never really did was sit down [...]

Elf and I watched The Keep last night, an atmospheric horror film from 1983 with Gabriel Byrne as a Nazi SS Officer and a pretty young-looking Ian McKellen as a Romanian jewish scholar. It’s a “don’t let the demon out” kind of horror film which reminded me pretty strongly of 2001. Slow [...]

John Scalzi has some words for people who criticize NaNoWriMo:

Dude, a program that encourages thousands of people annually to celebrate the act of creating words — of creating their own words — and you want to piss all over that? If you look to the right, I have some kittens you [...]