Arthur started a blog initially to make fun of Dan getting a blog. And then started posting in it. Now he's trying to put his writing somewhere where people will actually see it.
articles
- Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection melds Chandleresque crime and Chesterton-inspired fantasy and comes up with a whole new flavour.
- Six Hours of My Life I Won't Get Back If the entire Critters film series were wiped out of history absolutely nothing of value would be lost.
- Pwned by Chaos Brian Craig's Pawns of Chaos shows surprising depth for a Warhammer 40,000 novel.
- The Emperor Commanded Me to "Make It So" Is it too late to review Oblivion? Never mind. Here's a review of Oblivion anyway.
- Worms, Worms In the Deep A review of a reasonably-priced box set of the first three Tremors movies.
playpen posts
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at 14:57 on 12-03-2010
It occurs to me that by rejecting the rules and structures that make a game a game, what Tale of Tales have done is come up with computer-implemented toys. The Endless Forest, The Gr...
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at 13:20 on 12-03-2010
(Also, I notice that they are doing the Ron Edwards thing of claiming that there was no indie scene to speak of when they came along. I'm pretty damn sure there were plenty of independent desi...
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at 13:19 on 12-03-2010
Probably only Dan will get this, but the big list of "no's" from the Tale of Tales site reminds me of the end of The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz... No competition. No genre. No gu...
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at 11:11 on 12-03-2010
Playing D&D With Pornstars gets the Wizards of the Coast seal of approval. Interesting that they chose t...
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at 10:11 on 12-03-2010
There was a South Park episode where Cartman dismisses arthouse cinema as being about gay cowboys eating pudding. I didn't watch Brokeback because I knew I couldn't sit through i...
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- 10:15, 12-03-2010 on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre:
I'm pretty sure there aren't any airships in it. At least, there aren't any that play a significant part that I remembe...
permalink - 00:47, 12-03-2010 on Noir Fantasy: My New Favourite Subgenre:
"Never Sleeping", Al. ;)
permalink - 23:23, 10-03-2010 on The Reading Canary: The Eisenhorn Trilogy:
I've got the Ravenor omnibus, it's in the backlog. I'll get to it at some point, but there's over 100 books in my backlog...
permalink - 15:42, 10-03-2010 on Six Hours of My Life I Won't Get Back:
The MST3K Hobgoblins episode is one of my favourites; I'm glad someone made the connection. :)
permalink - 15:06, 10-03-2010 on Girl in the Dystopia:
It sounds great! I wonder whether Haines was influenced at all by the various controversies surrounding WWE wrestling? I mean, a...
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