I've been home on break for over two weeks now, and haven't posted a thing! It's clearly a calamity, people. I feel I've lost my fandom mojo. Also, I miss superheroes. There hasn't been a really good superhero moment in my life for awhile. Anybody want to give me a superhero-related prompt in an effort to reignite my fanfic abilities? (I have 2 old ( Read more... )

Dude. Smallville's gotten SAUCY! Also, this is the best episode I've seen in awhile.

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I've noticed something about my non-fiction writing. I tend to get a little preachy--no matter my subject--I think because I see my primary objective in writing as being inspiring. I tend to fall back on that ancient (Greek?) definition of art--to inform, to entertain, to persuade--and believing as strongly as I do in the importance of both the ( Read more... )

In the March '07 issue of GQ, there's an article that's described on the index page as:
Two new NBC shows, Heroes and Friday Night Lights, have a lot in common. It's just that one's far better than the other--and a lot less popular. Tom Carson explains why.

His thesis is basically that Heroes and FNL are two sides of one coin, that coin being ( Read more... )