An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I’ve never watched Dawson’s Creek before, but I love the Scream movies and Everwood, and I believe in following the writer…
And it is fascinating watching this show morph from Scream outtakes into a rough draft of Everwood. Continue reading “Watching Dawson’s Creek”
Pandaria is one of my favorite Warcraft expansions, probably only second to Legion. So, I had to make a panda album to go with all the others. To get the right sound for most of these tracks, I added the flavor word “cozy.”
If you’re doing an album about an off-brand Pandaria, you’ve got to have a song about how the whole place is sailing around on the back of a giant turtle. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: Doo-Wop Panda”
Lt. Jordan LeGuin was definitely the star of my table at this Worldcon. We’ve sold more of his action figure and book, TECHNO-TABBY ENGINEER, than anything else at this con, except of course for the usual standbys of THE NECROMOUSER and OTTERS IN SPACE.
Listening to an entire Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook in one day is a lot. It reminds me of when I used to reserve Farscape DVDs at the library, and then have only one week to watch a whole season. Mind-smashingly intense. Continue reading “Leaving Worldcon, Listening to DCC”
I’m vending books at Worldcon. It’s my third con of the summer, following BayCon and Trek to Vegas. And I’ve been trying to figure out if this is something I want to make a regular part of my life… or something that ends up, ultimately, costing more in effort than it’s worth. Continue reading “Vending Books”
If you want to know what I think, read my books. I wrote every word.
If you want to know what I feel, listen to the music I curate. A team of AI programs help me create it, but it captures my heart and soul better than I’m ever able to on my own. Continue reading “My Soul and My Heart’s Inspiration”
That feeling when, several months after finishing writing an homage to TNG’s Qpid with Guinan as a rabbit in the role of Vash, you realize you actually also flawlessly embedded DS9’s The Emissary at the heart with Jack Crusher as a golden retriever in the role of Jennifer Sisko.
No really — it makes sense. I promise. Read “Cheshire Cat Charlatan” if you want to see how elegantly this works out for yourself. Continue reading “My God, It’s Full of Star Trek a.k.a. It’s Star Trek All the Way Down”
After making albums inspired by pretty much every playable class in Warcraft/Diablo, I suppose it was inevitable I’d make one about… blue space goats!
My main Draenei character was a shaman, and that definitely colors the album. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Doo-Wop Space Goat”
In one of Cobalt Starstrong’s songs, he sings, “The sun doesn’t take a side.”
So, Star-Shaker begins this album by countering that “The moon is on my side tonight.”
Yes, my fictional pop-stars are in conversation with each other. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: Star-Shaker’s Stellar Vibrations”
The Muppets perform Chess…
The American: Gonzo
The Russian: Kermit
Florence: Miss Piggy
The arbiter: Sam the Eagle
British bureaucrats: Bunsen and Beaker
The Russian’s wife: Idina Menzel
Media: Fozzy
Russian government: Dr. Teeth
Replacement Russian player: Animal Continue reading “Muppet Chess, Fisk, Trek”
I used to think it was bad that as my own boss, there was no one I could give a resignation to, because I knew that I wouldn’t accept it…. It’s now gotten to the point where as my own boss and my own biggest fan (but like the unhinged, obsessive, stalkery kind), I can barely even get a sick day approved.