So last night, we saw the season finale for Gotham. For those of you unfamiliar with this particular TV show, it’s basically Batman without the bat, a prequel of sorts, that takes place when Commissioner Gordon is still just a fledgling detective and Thomas and Martha Wayne are killed in…
There’s an apple tree growing in a vacant lot next to my house. We discovered it a few years ago when it had a good summer, by which I mean it dropped crab apples all over the place, enough that it spilled over into our yard. It was hidden behind…
As I left the theater last night, I was ruminating on how we got to this point in terms of superhero movies. I remember seeing the post-credits sequence at the end of the original Iron Man movie, when Nick Fury showed up and said those three magic words: the Avengers…
This is post 11 of 19 in the series “The Darkshire Woods Story” A fantasy story using the RPG story-telling game “Fiasco.” Darkshire Woods: The Heir – The Set Up The Characters of “The Heir,” a Darkshire Woods story The Heir Part I – “The Adoption” The Heir Part II…
So it’s been a while. I’ll just keep this short and sweet. The Iron Staff Current Wordcount: 40,180 Words added since last report: 7,588 Technically, this means I’m about halfway to my projected goal of 85,000 words, but I don’t think that’ll be quite enough. I’m not at the story’s…
Who you gonna call?
So if you missed the news, Failstate: Nemesis was named as a finalist for a 2015 Christy Award. I actually spent parts of today obsessively checking the Christy website. I knew from experience that the finalists were usually announced around this time for the past two years, and I had…
A challenging passage for today: See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we…
Okay, so hot on the heels of the Star Wars trailer, we get the first official trailer for one of next year’s big tentpoles, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. In case you missed it, here’s the trailer: Okay, so there isn’t much to this one. It’s more a teaser…
This is post 10 of 19 in the series “The Darkshire Woods Story” A fantasy story using the RPG story-telling game “Fiasco.” Darkshire Woods: The Heir – The Set Up The Characters of “The Heir,” a Darkshire Woods story The Heir Part I – “The Adoption” The Heir Part II…