So this post will be a weird one, because it’s one part quarantine fitness, one part tech review, and one part a (really, really late) thumbs up for Netflix’s Cobra Kai, which is due to drop season 3 on January 8, 2021. First of all, why should I listen to you about fitness, nerd? Listen, I’m writing this at 3:22 am while…

For aspiring authors like myself, writing workshops are the Limbo to every manuscript’s descent into revision Hell — the first place where you can get unbiased criticism of your work from other human beings. They can be positive and illuminating, or they can be oppressive and discouraging, and the outcome…

Lately I’ve been encountering a recurring credo among fellow writing workshoppers and conductors of said workshops that goes something along the lines of “you’ve got to hook your reader in the first paragraph” of whatever it is you’re writing, hit them with the premise, the conflict, and the protagonist’s goals…

Freelancing can be a solitary enterprise, even for creatives who work in shared spaces. The strategies we use to survive, however, are common. …

Freelancing can be a solitary enterprise, even for creatives who work in shared spaces. The strategies we use to survive, however, are common. …

Half of Arrival is great scifi. The other half is Hollywood doing its best to stretch a short story into a feature film. The movie hinges on a single, Nebula Award-winning concept, adapted from its source material, Ted Chiang’s “A Story of Your Life,” a concept which starts with the…

Despite its 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Stranger Things doesn’t have a whole lot going on that moves the scifi/horror genre forward. The new Netflix series is yet another instance of Hollywood cashing in on the pre-millennial glory days of original ’80s cinema — you know, back when we had…

I’d probably cite shellshock as the reason why I didn’t write this review as soon as I finished watching the conclusion of the six-episode X-Files revival, but the real reason is that I’ve been too busy to write this quarter: client work got the best of me in the past…

This review contains spoilers, so stop reading right now if you haven’t yet seen the film. I’ve had mixed feelings about Star Wars: The Force Awakens ever since I learned J.J. Abrams would be helming the kickoff of the third trilogy, mainly because I hate him for trouncing the spirit…