Patch Town, A Cabbage Lore Musical
Patch Town (2014) When I was but a wee Blitzy, I had a Cabbage Patch Kid. She was blonde, and soft, and hand-stitched. I thought she would look better with rosy cheeks and red lips, [...]
Maggie… “Makes Living Sweet as it Can Be.”
They never make a happy movie shrouded in gray and blue, do they? That’s okay though - zombie movies aren’t really meant to be happy. Especially zombie movies that focus on the individual relationships between [...]
BLUE JAM: ee arth welcome.
The scariest thing to me has always been disjointed, surrealist things. David Lynch’s work has always unsettled me to no end (the stuff I could get into, anyway). Tim and Eric and Too Many Cooks [...]
HAUNTED HOUSE: my favorite horror-influenced dance songs (and one entire album)
I will admit that this article is not my most professional work. But hey. I’m a total fucking geek over dance music. And horror, to be honest. So when the two come together, I kinda [...]
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE: turn on your radio and hide.
Here are some of the things that the people of the town of Night Vale find to be normal. a glowing cloud appearing and dropping dead animal carcasses all over the town an airplane disappearing [...]
Defining a Zombie, Dividing a Genre
By now we’re all pretty sure we know what the definition of a zombie is, yeah? Well, what if we’re wrong? Or, what if, like most things, there exists this middle ground - this grey [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… ways to spend this weekend instead of seeing Fifty Shades of Grey
By now you've probably seen some sort of advertising for the "romantic" film Fifty Shades of Grey, based on the novel by E.L. James, based on her fan fiction of the Twilight series, except that [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story
In celebration (or something) of NaNoWriMo, I've written a series of columns full of writing advice and tips. This is one of them. It's NaNoWriMo time, when thousands of people try to bang out a [...]
Grandma: A Different Kind of Geek
It took me a long time to realize that I was a geek for what I liked. I thought that to be a geek you had to be really into sci-fi and fantasy and gaming [...]