I’m proud to announce that “Thanks, Nostradamus,” written by yours truly, is included in the Summer 2024 edition of The Colored Lens, available now! I first wrote this story four years ago, for a short story class with Grub Street. Then I worked with a wonderful writing group to further refine the tone and expand …
I’ve spent a lot of my writing time lately working on the world document for an unannounced TTRPG/fiction setting that might have something to do with this pirate novel I wrote (shhhhhhh!). It’s interesting work; as a writer, I don’t put a ton of time and effort into world building before I start a new …
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As I begin this latest attempt to dive back into regular blogging, I figured I’d warm myself up by ranting about my favorite pieces of low-hanging rage fruit: professional sports and disphit rich people. In an interview with the Financial Times, John Henry, principal owner of my beloved Boston Red Sox, told a reporter that …
I am, sadly, just one man, and though I enjoy watching football, I have both limited time and severely limited patience for car insurance, Mannings, and color commentators insisting that no, actually garbage player/coach/team X is not actually garbage. I can only do so much. But here’s what I saw. Chiefs vs. Lions Detroit’s legit, …
I’m not always pissy at my cheap ass baseball team; sometimes I’m excited to see big dudes in funny underpants pretend to beat each other up! The build to Wrestlemania 39 has me convinced this might be the best version of Mania WWE has put together in a long, long time. So what’s looking good …
Spoiler alert for Destiny 2: Lightfall’s campaign. The Destiny franchise is famous for starting out as a totally incomprehensible mess. The player wakes up with no memory, resurrected by a little robot guy that was Peter Dinklage for a little while, and you’ve got powers because the big ball in the sky says so, and …
Since it’s that time of year when I gleefully fuck up all of my fantasy baseball drafts, it’s also time to crank out my traditional blog post expounding on the upcoming MLB season! In the past, I’ve attempted to bring my knowledge to the masses using revolutionary advanced metrics comparing the league’s teams to beer, …
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The (surprise) third book in Tamsyn Muir’s (now) four-book The Locked Tomb science fiction series is a creative but challenging delight. Reader Stuff Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth were some of my favorite novels ever, so I was very much looking forward to Alecto the Ninth when it was announced as the third …
I realized last week that I was spending way too much time staring at the tiny computer I bought from Tim Apple. I think that’s understandable: there’s so much doom and gloom to scroll through, so many memes to laugh at, and so many gacha characters to collect and train up, and this little brick …
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I’ve had robots on the brain lately (thanks, Amazon). It feels like we’re right on the cusp of these things becoming a not-insignificant part of our day-to-day lives, like making breakfast or abandoning the MBTA when it catches on fire. The technology’s there; it just needs to be refined and implemented. So it’s time to …