I was thinking about the difference between creative writing and essay writing. And where does this sort of blog post fit in? So I’ve decided I’m going to lead with the conclusion that I’ll explain at the end: The Next Generation (TNG) at its best (not always) tries to answer…

Dear Reader, I had a hard time deciding which series I was going to write about first, so I decided to do it chronologically, so here we are. I almost wanted to go with the Next Generation and do this series last. I hope some people understand why I’d feel…

Rating: 4 stars When I began reading this novella (I have no idea what the classifications for this work would be, but it was definitely longer than a short story and shorter than a book), I was expecting something like a collection or anthology. Instead, what I got were several…

Andy leant me his friend Steve's copy of the novelization of Attack of the Clones, and oh boy. It was awful. I spend this entire episode tearing it down with him and guest host Steve. https://soundcloud.com/user-408474538/episode-73-attack-of-the https://soundcloud.com/user-408474538/episode-74-attack-of-the

Rating: 4 stars I think the most exceptional part of this book is that it managed to hold my attention. Side story: I was reading the reviews on the back of the book, and while my conclusion was similar to many of them, I wouldn’t ever say it like they…

Hello dear readers, I wanted to write about why I like Star Trek so much and why I think a lot of people could get something out of it. So today I'll be writing about the show in general. In the future, I'll be talking about each of the series.…

We talk about Max Barry's Company. It has some high points on the level of the Office, but it has a lot of low and stupid points, especially the consumerist, anti-labor focus of the last third of the book (let's have a strike but call it something else because that's…

Rating: 2 stars I was disappointed with this book, really, really disappointed. I thought the basics (as I’ve called it before, the profession of writing) was all right, but for a book that talks about the impact of words (especially the boisterous, loud defenses of it in reviews on the…

Rating: 4 stars So that break that I wrote about… it didn’t take me nearly as long to get through some things so I’m back to reading (at least temporarily). I’m also looking for comps, so I maybe shouldn’t have read a book from the early 2000s. Oh well, I’ll…

Let's get this out of the way. Yes, it's Die Hard. It's not quite as good as the movie if you want action, but it's better if you want some not particularly incisive social commentary. It's roughly equivalent to Crime and Punishment but a thriller and not a, you know,…