My take on why the “10 Signs Your Girlfriend is a Fake Gamer” article doesn’t work as parody.
Category Archive: Musings
Ramblings and random stuff
Jul 10
Why Video Games Matter
Video games are an immersive storytelling medium, they’re art, and they’re here to stay. But that’s not why they matter.
May 04
Women In Science
A long and potentially boring response to a comment on Phil Plait’s blog post, “Women as planetary science role models”. To be clear: the comment was made by a stupid troll, not Phil Plait. Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer) is pretty dang cool and you should go read the blog post if nothing else 🙂
Mar 12
Shopping for a Star Trek novel
This week’s Tabletop Writing exercise is kicking my butt so it’s not ready for posting yet. Instead, here are some random thoughts about Star Trek books versus shows that occurred to me earlier this week. And before anyone accuses me of cheating this week: I roll for my “random encounters” on Mondays, so I still have the weekend to finish this week’s prompt – last week’s was done early enough to post the same week I worked on it because it was poetry and super specific.
May 03
The Future of Comics? Man, I Hope So!
The Comics Industry is (and has been) slowly dying. Saving it is going to take some serious reconstruction and Erik Larsen has a particularly intriguing suggestion: comic digests.
Sep 13
Organic vs. Non-organic
A conventional tomato and an organic tomato are both tomatoes; obviously they would have the same nutrients – the conventional tomato hasn’t suddenly become a marshmallow just because it isn’t organic. I’m a little shocked that someone actually thought this study was necessary 🙁
Mar 21
The "Otherness" of Poetry
Musings, Poetry
by thegoblin
A reaction to the academic gobbledy-gook you put up with when you’re taking a Modern Poetry class >__<
Tags: commentary, Poetry
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