No, I don't remember where the quote is from, but it really fits this moment. Red, one of the best friends I've ever had, who shares my tastes in movies, anime, role-playing games, and genres of fiction (although we have marked differences of opinion on specific writers) sent me this email today.
I'll spare you the melodrama and simply get... Read More
Job interview today went very well. Technically a re-interview, as the corporate office finally decided that the appropriate response to having more cash registers than cashiers (and all of them part-time) as the holiday rush neared was to rewrite their entire hiring procedure, requiring all current applicants to start over from step one.
So there I sat, chatting amicably with the same manager who interviewed... Read More
I've had this sort of superheroish idea (that I call "Princes") bouncing around my head for the past couple days, and I just realized why it didn't seem to fit into any of my usual genres. It should be an anime (or manga).
The basic premise is of an alternate history near-future setting (like most superhero stories) in which a particular Great Nation has developed... Read More
My son (of the four-legged variety; I don't reserve full membership in the family to humans only) died a few months ago. Cancer. It was a long time coming, and I spent every minute I could with him that last year of his life.
Thus dropping off the face of the internet for so long. Sorry about that, but family (two-leg or four-leg) comes first.... Read More
I work in the dispatch office of a bus company. When the bus drivers finish up their trips, we have vehicle inspection reports in which they can write up any defects that have developed with the bus during a day's work. The most recent defect reported:
Something I've been writing lately. It started out as a free-writing stream, but once I got to the end I suddenly saw that it was shaping itself into the third chapter of a novel, drawing influences from Sergei Lukyanenko's "Nochnoi Dozor", Jim Butcher's "the Dresden Files", Frank Miller's "Sin City", and the television miniseries "the Lost Room". I like it, and a lot of my... Read More
My name is Alexander Lambert, and I'm something of a dreamer. Whether it's imagery of superheroes fighting killer robots, a model for a benevolent society predicated on the virtues of Happiness and Productivity, the introspections of a supernatural entity dealing with their lack of belonging in the world, or just the look on my dog's face when his whole family all arrives at home together,... Read More
