This Saturday is Earth Hour , the time of year when humanity takes 60 minutes out of their heady, crazy lives to remember that we owe a small debt of thanks to the loving mother that birthed our entire race from cosmic sludge (in the interests of a balanced opinion for our religious readers, we must also posit the theory that a bearded all-knowing magic man instead crapped us out from s
All right, let's start this one off with a hugely controversial statement: I really, really liked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. GOOD GOD THE FANBOYS HAVE A BATTERING RAM- We demand equal rights for gut drums! Photo by Korean Resource Centre licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic
Now hear this! I hereby proclaim Fridays of Look Out It Is a Blog "Fiction Fridays", wherein tales of a madeup nature will be told. If you don't personally know me, let it now be made common knowledge that I am a writer of fiction and plays, and to that end will be practicing online. Tune in on Friday for a radical change of pace from the rest of the week of Look Out It Is a Blog. (this first one's just a teeny tiny warmup, a little something I was thinking about to
(Readers: the following is a work of fiction intended for satirical purposes. It is in no way meant to resemble any real life individual or group of individuals. Consider it, if you will, as a cautionary tale for what not to do in a Cover Letter. If this does resemble you...stop it. Please. We have families) Dear Lucky Person,
Dear Execrable Douchemongers, What is your problem? I can only assume you enjoy wasting your time and money, because there is no other logical explanation for the incessant chorus of chatter, snack-munching, coat wringing, and mime-whacking going on in the seating area. Maybe you thought the show was crap. Maybe you were confused, and needed a couple of minutes of lip-flapping to get your mighty brain up to speeds reaching or even exceeding three. Or maybe you were
Ye be fairly warned: you who so enter these hallowed bloggy walls will find spoilers aplenty for several things: Walking Dead, Serenity, Alien...other things. Really though, the only one of these in recent memory is Walking Dead, so frankly if you cry spoiler on the other stuff than you just need to watch the shows when they come out :) Okay? I'm going to look at the wall for a little while. I'll play a little music... Hum te tum... ... ... Okay, still h
Time for the obligatory controversial post. Men of the world, can I talk to you for a minute? What the fuck is your (our) problem? You piss on the toilet seat. You smell bad, grow hair all over, commit literally 10 times as many violent crimes as women, and yet somehow you still run the whole frakking world. What the hell, man (men)? And I'm not going to beat around the bush and s
Every now and then, I remember that Star Trek hasn't been on TV for nearly seven years. Yes, these are things I think about. To be sure, there was a very successful "gritty reboot" of the original series in film form that featured a very good cast with a decent director (J.J. Abrams) at the helm, but Star Trek in bite-sized, one hour form hasn't seen the light of day for some time and probably won't for the foreseeable future. The next feature length film isn't slated until 20
I was talking the other day with a co-worker about the idea of "genre fiction", as it exists as a seperate entity from so-called "mainstream fiction." We both agreed that there is a tendency to look down on works written "in a genre", and a tendency to compliment works by labelling them as "genre-defining." It's a strange brand of literary snobbery that bleeds into the public subconscious. The idea is that books that are written in a genre are somehow of lesser quali
I'm doing it again. This marks probably the fourth time I've started a blog. Why do I keep doing this? I always struggle with updating on a regular basis, and ultimately drift off and end up doing other things. Well, I suppose the key thing is to look at it as an exercise. I'm now at a point where I genuinely want to be writing on a regular basis, and facebook notes, while awesome, just aren't cutting it any more. I'll put whatever I feel like on here: rants
