Robinson L maintains a livejournal account under the handle Arkan2, where he reviews and/or rants about books, movies, tv shows, his college, and politics. Reportedly crashed into an asteroid in late 2004 and died a fiery death. He got better. He aspires to be (in no particular order) a successful author, an activist, and a parent.
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2017-06-30 20:30 - Kickstopper: Big Trouble In CyberChina -
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Never played Shadowrun, and unless I get infinite time at some point, I probably never will, but I enjoyed that article as usual. A couple miscellaneous points:
(a white swathe of women are involved at all tiers of societ...
- 2017-06-30 20:00 - Declare, If Thou Hast Understanding - link I got this out from the library last year, on the strength of your recommendation. I gotta admit, the whole “Secret History with Supernatural Overtones” gimmick really appeals to me. For instance, I loved the little touches like mentions of the...
- 2017-06-30 15:29 - Fool Me Once, Dzyan On You... - link Another fun read, Arthur, and I admit to being curious to read the truncated Hodgson report, if not so much the rest of the manuscript. I don’t usually nitpick minor spelling and grammar issues, but this one from the penultimate paragraph ga...
- 2017-06-30 15:14 - "There Are Things Happening In This House..." - link Man, Out 1 sounds fascinating, but from your description, it also sounds like it raises a bunch of really interesting questions about what’s really going on below the surface, but then doesn’t supply comparably interesting and satisfacto...
- 2017-06-24 22:30 - Kickstopper: Retconned Schemes - link Another entertaining article, Arthur, and it makes me excited for your write up of the World of Darkness NetFlix series whenever it comes out. I’m still puzzled on one point of lore from your summary of the background, though, which I...
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2017-06-24 20:30 - The Fouling of the Howling -
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Shim: I find it very pleasing how these articles can take something I just wouldn't watch, and still turn it into engaging and entertaining reads. Even when it's clearly very bad!
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2017-06-24 20:01 - Machen Fairies Grim Again -
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By Victorian standards in general, and particularly by Machen’s standards, any sex act not emphatically authorised by God constitutes only ye liveliest awfulness and even an enjoyable evening of light-hearted pegging constitutes a sanity-...
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2017-06-24 19:59 - Lovecraft's Last Apprentices -
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it’s cheap and easy to kill someone gruesomely in a horror story, but isolating them, torturing them, and driving them out of their mind is where the true art is.
I wish more authors would take this lesson to heart, and n... - 2017-05-12 20:02 - The Wonderful Shitbag of Oz - link I’ve been working through an audiobook recording of The Once and Future King by T. H. White, and was struck by this quote by Merlyn in The Sword in the Stone, which makes for an excellent commentary on this movie’s protagonist and...
- 2017-05-12 20:00 - Kickstopper: That Is Not Dead Which Can Eternally Restructure (Part 2) - link Next time I’m in Great Britain I shall have to make another foray out to Oxford, if only to see you in your glorious new fez, Arthur.
- 2017-05-12 15:30 - Nick-You're-Not-The-One - link Interesting. I think I heard one of Mamatas’ Lovecraft pastiches in podcast form years ago, but I remember practically nothing about it. I believe I thought it was okay, but I obviously didn’t find it memorable. I find Mamatas as a wri...
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2017-04-03 20:15 - I, Reader -
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@Arthur: That’s true about 50s sensibilities, or so I gather. Maybe he just changed his mind.
Orion: I tend to look at science-fiction as a safe space to float ideas with troubling implications or outright dangerous applications ...
- 2017-03-30 16:02 - Dissecting Lovecraft Part 8: Supernatural Horror In Biography - link Oh yeah, I also meant to say that Lovecraft sure had a classy way of saying, “sure kid, by all means include a character modeled after me in your story and gruesomely kill him off.” But I absolutely love this description: “Like a...
- 2017-03-30 16:00 - I, Reader - link Perhaps it’s another feature of the time skip between novels, and Asimov’s perceptions about what he can get away with in the 80s as opposed to the 50s. *shrug*
- 2017-03-25 20:36 - Dissecting Lovecraft Part 8: Supernatural Horror In Biography - link So this is the payoff to all the deliberately mysterious hints you've scattered throughout this Lovecraft series. Interesting. Incidentally, I recently came across “Ask Lovecraft,” a...
- 2017-03-25 20:30 - I, Reader - link And remains Mrs. Bailey throughout? So, a philanderer, then. I suppose that's not too surprising.
