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Idea Debt
I first read about the concept of “idea debt” in a blog post by Jessica Abel that Leighton sent me some indeterminate amount of time ago. Basically, an idea debt is that project you want to do but you’re not working on. Abel’s advice is to throw away that idea debt because all the time…
Wednesday WWPHITM? Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser
To continue with this week’s musings on Sword & Sorcery fantasy, this Wednesday WWPHITM? takes a look at Fritz Lieber’s Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser series. The basic plot will be “Ill Met in Lankhmar,’ probably with brief retellings (possibly as flashbacks) of “The Cold Women” and “The Unholy Grail” included. Guy Ritchie directs. Facebook…
Bad Luck Streak at Wizard School
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10 Things You May Not Know About The Herrick Agency
Leighton Connor just released his newest story, Hello From Junction City, which you can download for FREE on Amazon (or buy, if you read this after the low introductory price of “nothing” expires). The protagonists of the story are members of The Herrick Agency, a private detective agency in New York City that specializes in…
Fratboy of the Week: The Nerd
In order to avoid double-secret academic probation, every fraternity has to maintain a minimum grade point average. In order to keep the frat’s GPA up to that minimum without cutting into time that could be spent getting wasted, some frats make sure there are at least a few nerds in every pledge class. In…
Movie Review: Smokey & The Bandit
Last night when I pulled up Netflix, Smokey & The Bandit was a few rows down on the main screen. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched the movie since I originally saw it as a kid, but it’s been a long time and it’s a classic, so I decided to give it a rewatch. I was…
Why Even Use Rules?
Whenever someone suggests that sometimes it’s ok to ignore the rules, someone else inevitably asks why you should even bother to use rules if you’re not going to slavishly follow them at all times, apparently to make sure that the discussion is safe from crows. A super-secret project that I’m currently working on required me…
Griffons of Light
I’ve been kind of lazy since I hit the 10K goal, but at least a little of it was because it’s been a busy week and because I intended to take a few days off to make the 25K goal unreachable so I wouldn’t decide to shoot for it. I’m back, and I just finished…
The Squint
A squint is a scientist who specializes in analyzing evidence in order to solve a problem or mystery. The name “squint” (coined by Agent Booth on the TV series Bones) refers to the fact that the squint is always looking intently at something–a microscope, a computer screen, or whatever. While the term was invented to…