I am home sick today, my third round with a stomach bug in a four-week span, so let's talk Superhero Movies.

Recently, Time Warner announced that they were ramping up their slate of DC Comics-based movies in a desperate attempt to play catch-up to Disney’s unprecedented success with the Marvel Cinematic Universe:

• Batman v Superman: Dawn of ( Read more... )

Recently, I've had several conversations with different people about franchise fiction, why it becomes popular, and why so many franchises develop followings and fandoms far out of proportion to their literary merit (at least as perceived by the arbiters of such intangibles ( Read more... )

Some days, you just feel like gafiating.

I guess you shouldn't say a wedding went off "without a hitch", because the whole point is getting hitched, right?

Be that as it may, jirris_midvale and moredena got themselves hitched yesterday, and the ceremony went off almost flawlessly.1It was my honor and privilege to serve as Best Man on this happy occasion, and I have never seen a ceremony so full of love and ( Read more... )

... but who's going to FC this year?

(Wow, it's really the 13th-17th? That seems really early in the month!)

I don't often mention events at my current job, but last night bears some note ( Read more... )

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Fasten your seatbelts, kids; this post starts talking about current Pop Culture, then veers into politics, philosophy, personal development, and metaprogramming ( Read more... )

Old leezard is old.

I talk about RPGs with a lot of people, most notably, normanrafferty.

The Rat has been gaming almost as long as I have, but that "almost" is significant -- never more so than when he'll contradict me about "how things were in the early days".1 I notice similar disconnects when reading LiveJournals, blogs... even the Designer Notes inside ( Read more... )