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“Citizen Joe” is such a transcendently, bizarrely brilliant episode of SG1. It does such an amazing job of capturing the feel of loving a show like Stargate and being a writer taken over by your stories, all without flinching from making fun of itself. Continue reading “Citizen Joe”

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous is so incredibly ill-conceived.

Let’s send kids to dinosaur murder island! Continue reading “Camp Cretaceous”

I haven’t watched season 4 of Atypical yet, but I’m looking forward to it. And while I’m not interested in deeply debating the quality or lack thereof regarding the show, I would like to say something positive about it… Continue reading “Representation in Atypical”

As I approach writing the end of this third trilogy, I keep imagining the heroes from each of them — Kipper, Clarity, and Witch-Hazel — just kinda hanging out in some sort of between-novels lounge, chatting and bonding over the parallels in their adventures.

I’m rewatching Star Trek: Generations for the first time since… oh, I don’t know, high school? And I still hate what they do with Data and the emotion chip.

The way Brent Spiner plays it, it’s like Data becomes a completely different person with the emotion chip. Continue reading “Scattered Thoughts on Star Trek Movies”

Cruella (2021) is weirdly fantastic. I expected to enjoy it, but it far, far exceeded my expectations. Emma Stone and Emma Thompson are just hopelessly, unbelievably cool, and basically everything else in it is done well too.

I’ve been working on the third book in my third trilogy, and so I was thinking about the parallels between my three trilogies.

There’s one really big striking one — in all three, the third book involves descent into an underwater world. Continue reading “Trilogy Trends”

Spouse: “When I bought a new mouse, I made sure to get one with a tilty-wheel.”

Me: “Tilty-wheel…” Continue reading “Tilty-Wheel”

My house has AC, but I’ve never been somewhere as hot as 106 degrees… so I stepped outside for twenty seconds out of sheer curiosity.

And wow. Continue reading “106 Degrees”

I’m realizing, as I close in on the end of this trilogy, that I’ve never finished writing a book without any future plans to write more books about those characters before. I usually write open-ended worlds, meant to be revisited…

But in my mind, the trilogy that starts with The Snake’s Song has always been specifically a trilogy, and it’s very much a separate world from my other books and stories. Continue reading “The End of a Closed World”