Master Post for Non-Fiction Articles
This is a sticky post that contains links to all the articles I've written for Pink Raygun.
The Fan Whisperer
Introduction: It’s So Very Personal
Getting Into Fandom: Walking on the Wild Side
Becoming a Fan Fiction Writer: Dealing in Emo
Fan Fiction: Why? Why? Why?
Character: It’s In The Way That You Use Him
Conclusion: Bringing in the Sheaves
Merlin
Merlin Q & A: Bringing Legends to Life
Syfy Press Tour
Syfy Press Tour Dinner
The Weight of Space, the Press of the Future: Syfy Stargate: Universe
The Watchmen Graphic Novel
Watching the Watchmen: First Foray
Watching the Watchmen: The Emperor's New Clothes
The Watchmen Movie Review
Watching the Watchmen: The Church of the Everlasting Watchmen
Fanfiction
Fanfic Focus: Fanfiction, A Cautionary Tale
We're Not Crooks, Not Even Close
Star Trek Articles
Upcoming Movie Preview Review: The Promise of You
Bad Boys: Birth of a Legend; Star Trek 2009 Movie Review
Remakes
Enough With The Remakes Already!
Book Reviews:
It Was On Fire When I Laid It Down: In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural
Is This How You Like It: The Unholy Cause
The Perilous Road Between Heaven and Hell: Supernatural Official Season 5 Companion
Movie Reviews
The Sky is Filled With Stars, Invisible By Day: Moon (2009)
The Insanity that Coal Dust Makes: My Bloody Valentine (The 2009 Remake)
The Towels Are Kind Of Scratchy: Friday the 13th (The 2009 Remake)
Supernatural Episode Reviews
Season 1
Slipping the Surly Bonds of TV: "The Pilot" Season 1, Episode 1
Into the Woods: "Windigo" Season 1, Episode 2
Into the Deep End: "Dead in the Water" Season 1, Episode 3
Boys on a Plane: "Phantom Traveller" Season 1, Episode 4
Saturday Night in Nowheresville: "Bloody Mary" Season 1, Episode 5
Show Me Some, Baby: "Skin" Season 1, Episode 6
Getting Hooked Up: "Hook Man" Season 1, Episode 7
Squatting in Surburbia: "Bugs" Season 1, Episode 8
No Place Like It: "Home" Season 1, Episode 9
Asylum Not Granted: "Asylum" Season 1, Episode 10
That Argument in Indiana: "Scarecrow" Season 1, Episode 11
Angels Among Us: "Faith" Season 1, Episode 12
The Meanest Truck Ever: "Route 666" Season 1, Episode 13
Visions and Other Questions: "Nightmare" Season 1, Episode 14
A Case of the Benders: "The Benders" Season 1, Episode 15
Boy's Town (Oh, Wait, That's A Different Movie): "Shadow" Season 1, Episode 16
Talk to the Towel: "Hell House" Season 1, Episode 17
Something Wee: An Army of Son: "Something Wicked" Season 1, Episode 18
Pictures Ain't Perfect: "Provenance" Season 1, Episode 19
Enter the Gods: "Dead Man's Blood" Season 1, Episode 20
The Dad and His Boys: "Salvation" Season 1, Episode 21
Take Me For A Scrape Across The Rocks: "Devil's Trap" Season 1, Episode 22
Season 2
Stupid, Macho Showdown: "In My Time of Dying" Season 2, Episode 1
Why Did It Have To Be Clowns?: "Everybody Loves a Clown" Season 2, Episode 2
Meet Me at the Honky Tonk: "Bloodlust" Season 2, Episode 3
Emotional Rescue (And Lots of Yummy Closeups): "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" Season 2, Episode 4
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?: "Simon Said" Season 2, Episode 5
It's All About Jo, Isn't It? Damn: "No Exit" Season 2, Episode 6
Oh, My GOD, It's Linda Blair: "The Usual Suspects" Season 2, Episode 7
Don't Bet Against The House: "Crossroads Blues" Season 2, Episode 8
Searching For Virginia Dare: "Croatoan" Season 2, Episode 9
They Shoot Sidekicks, Don't They?: "Hunted" Season 2, Episode 10
How He Move: "Playthings" Season 2, Episode 11
Requiem for Ronald Reznick: "Nightshifter" Season 2, Episode 12
Angels on the Bullcrap List: "Houses of the Holy" Season 2, Episode 13
The Devil You'd Like To Know: "Born Under a Bad Sign" Season 2, Episode 14
Your Basic Haunting, Alien Abduction, Alligator-in-the-Sewer Gig: "Tall Tales" Season 2, Episode 15
Riding in Cars with Strangers: "Roadkill" Season 2, Episode 16
Ain’t No Cure for Love or Werewolves Either: "Heart" Season 2, Episode 17
That's a "Go" for Ozzie!: "Hollywood Babylon" Season 2, Episode 18
"Folsom Prison Blues" Season 2, Episode 19
"What Is And What Should Never Be" Season 2, Episode 20
The Small Rain Down Can Rain: "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part I," Season 2, Episode 21
The Glory of Love is Both Beautiful and Hellish: "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part II," Season 2, Episode 22
Season 3
The Magnificent Winchesters: "The Magnificent Seven" Season 3, Episode 1
The Kids are Creepy: "The Kids Are Alright" Season 3, Episode 2
Sam and the No Good, Very Bad, Awful Day: "Bad Day at Black Rock" Season 3, Episode 3
Sam's City: "Sin City" Season 3, Episode 4
Two Somewhat Grim Brothers: "Bedtime Stories" Season 3, Episode 5
Take Warning, My Brothers: "Red Sky at Morning" Season 3, Episode 6
Box Wrenches and Coleman Coolers, Christmas Comes Early: "Fresh Blood" Season 3, Episode 7
Pass the Eggnog, Don't Forget the Rum: "A Very Supernatural Christmas" Season 3, Episode 8
What Hell Must Be Like: "Malleus Maleficarum" Season 3, Episode 9
Dream Boys: "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" Season 3, Episode 10
Sam of a Thousand Tuesdays: "Mystery Spot" Season 3, Episode 11
Rocky Mountain Hell: "Jus In Bello" Season 3, Episode 12
Alas, Poor Corbett!: "Ghostfacers" Season 3, Episode 13
Got Hands, In Pockets: "Long Distance Call" Season 3, Episode 14
Supernatural Quest: "Time Is On My Side" Season 3, Episode 15
Yes, Sometimes Bon Jovi Rocks: "No Rest For The Wicked" Season 3, Episode 16
Supernatural Season 3 Cutting Room Floor Wish List
Season 4
Like a Halo, Only in Reverse: "Lazarus Rising" Season 4, Episode 1
Shootout at the Not So Okay O.K.Corral: "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" Season 4, Episode 2
Back to a Wonderful Life: "In The Beginning" Season 4, Episode 3
Travis, You’re Thirty Years Too Late!: "Metamorphosis" Season 4, Episode 4
Late October Monster Ghetto: "Monster Mash" Season 4, Episode 5
Sam In Charge of Dean: "Yellow Fever" Season 4, Episode 6
Between a Rock and Another, Really Hard Rock: "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester" Season 4, Episode 7
Sam and Dean and the Magical McGuffin: "Wishful Thinking" Season 4, Episode 8
Necrophilia Wins by a Mile!: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" Season 4, Episode 9
Angels Want to Wear His Red Shoes: "Heaven and Hell" Season 4, Episode 10
I'm a Little Bit Poltergeist, and Your're a Little Bit People Under the Stairs: "Family Remains" Season 4, Episode 11
With Darkness and the Death Hour "Criss Angel is a Doucebag" Season 4, Episode 12
Yes, I'm Addicted to Flashbacks: "After School Special" Season 4, Episode 13
These Are My Hands; This Is My Skin: "Sex and Violence" Season 4, Episode 14
Vacation's All I Ever Wanted: "Death Takes a Holiday" Season 4, Episode 15
Get Your Own Pair of Wings, Damnit!: "On the Head of a Pin" Season 4, Episode 16
Where Are Zuzu’s Petals?: “It’s a Terrible Life” Season 4, Episode 17
Larp Along With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be: "The Monster at the End of the Book" Season 4, Episode 18
Thursday, I'm In Love: "Jump the Shark" Season 4, Episode 19
The End of Innocence: "The Rapture" Season 4, Episode 20
The Art of Dark Circles and Samhair: "When the Levee Breaks" Season 4, Episode 21
The Last Temptation of Whatshisname: "Lucifer Rising" Season 4, Episode 22
Supernatural Season 4 Cutting Room Floor Wish List
Season 5
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor: "Sympathy for the Devil" Season 5, Episode 1
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: "Good God, Y'All" Season 5, Episode 2
Someone Else's Boy: "Free to Be You and Me" Season 5, Episode 3
Through With the Twostep: "The End" Season 5, Episode 4
You Say "Fan" Like It's a Bad Thing: "Fallen Idols" Season 5, Episode 5
Brotherly Brothers Being Brotherly: "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" Season 5, Episode 6
Magical Bobby: Still Not Dead: "The Curious Case of Dean Winchester" Season 5, Episode 7
Having Fun that is Funny: "Changing Channels" Season 5, Episode 8
Because That's What Sam and Dean Would Do: "The Real Ghostbusters" Season 5, Episode 9
What? No Kiss for Sammy?: "Abandon All Hope" Season 5, Episode 10
Medication Time, Medication Time:"Sam, Interrupted" Season 5, Episode 11
Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?: "Swap Meat" Season 5, Episode 12
Team Free Will for the Win!" "The Song Remains the Same" Season 5, Episode 13
The Darling Little Sammy Who Could: "My Bloody Valentine" Season 5, Episode 14
Me and My Two Minds: Musings on a Sixth Season for Supernatural
Zombies Should Be More Fun Than This: "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid " Season 5, Episode 15
Finally! A Practical Application for String Theory!: "Dark Side of the Moon" Season 5, Episode 16
A Good Man is Good to Find: "99 Problems" Season 5, Episode 17
Faith in the Atmosphere: "Point of No Return: Season 5, Episode 18
A Cast of Thousands: "Hammer of the Gods" Season 5, Episode 19
Oh, My Word, Would You Look At Sam's Hair!: "The Devil You Know" Season 5, Episode 20
Who's Wearing the Halo Now?: "Two Minutes to Midnight" Season 5, Episode 21
My Love is Like a Storybook Story: Swan Song" Season 5, Episode 22
Season 6
What a Piece of Work is Sam: "Exile on Main St" Season 6, Episode 1
Baby Stew is Bad: "Two and a Half Men" Season 6, Episode 2
Caught Staring: "The Third Man" Season 6, Episode 3
Back When You Were Good: "Weekend at Bobby's" Season 6, Episode 4
What is Sam's Deal?: "Live Free or Twihard" Season 6, Episode 5
My Heroes Have Always Been Psychopaths: "You Can't Handle the Truth" Season 6, Episode 6
Brothers In Arms: "Family Matters" Season 6, Episode 7
Working for the Man: "All Dogs Go to Heaven" Season 6, Episode 8
I Believe: "Clap Your Hands If You Believe" Season 6, Episode 9
The Secret Search for the Edge of the Turning World: "Caged Heat" Season 6, Episode 10
Looking Stuff Up: "Appointment in Samrarra" Season 6, Episode 11
Turn Up the Music, It's the B Site: "Like a Virgin" Season 6, Episode 12
Play It Again, Sam: "Unforgiven" Season 6, Episode 13
That the Rain Washed Away: "Mannequin 3: The Reckoning" Season 6, Episode 14
A Man Walks Into a Bar: "The French Mistake" Season 6, Episode 15
The Hellmouth That Is Sandusky: "And Then There Were None" Season 6, Episode 16
I Hear That Train A'Coming: "My Heart Will Go On" Season 6, Episode 17
A Dean-Centric, Sepia-Toned, Wild West Extravaganza: "Frontierland" Season 6, Episode 18
I Knew You And I Had But One Heart: "Mommy Dearest" Season 6, Episode 19
When You Get to the Front of the Line, You Go to the End Again (And That's Hell): "The Man Who Would Be King" Season 6, Episode 20
Saving It For Later: "Let It Bleed" Season 6, Episode 21
My Sock Drawer Is Really, Really Tidy Now: "The Man Who Knew To Much" Season 6, Episode 22
Season 7
Inside Of A God, It's Too Dark To Read: "Meet the New Boss" Season 7, Episode 1
Baby, Take A Bow: "Hello, Cruel World" Season 7, Episode 2
It Was a Good Meal, Even If There Was No Pie: "The Girl Next Door" Season 7 Episode 3
Commandeering the Soul of the Lord of the Pillar of Stability: "Defending Your Life" Season 7, Episode 4
War of the Who?: "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" Season 7, Episode 5
Built to Be So Gay With: "Slash Fiction" Season 7, Episode 6