The Ardent Eccentric: The Magicians is Magical
On one of my recent hour long commutes to work in the morning, I listened to Entertainment Weekly DJs and writers Dalton Ross and Jessica Shaw discuss the merits and problems of two new Syfy…
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Crowded: The Wartune Game Goes from Browser to Book
We have a mantra here, at DocPalindrome.com: ‘Be creative, make a thing.’ I say it at the end of each Doc Palindrome Podcast and I reiterate it as often as I can when I write….
The Ardent Eccentric: GISHWHES (or Geeks Interested in Supernatural Happily Work at Helping, Enjoyment & Silliness)
NOTE: Totally my bad. Alize had this written weeks ago and ready to be published but I had neglected to notice this. You may have noticed that I have been publishing articles, once more. Life…
Spindrift: What I Think “Teen Novels” are Doing Wrong
“Teen” or “Young Adult” novels have recently been being adapted into movies left and right. Their quality ranges anywhere from terrible to great like all genres of movies. After watching and analyzing a few of…
Spindrift: Adaptations From One Thing To Another
Throughout the history of movies (especially within the last decade or so) many adaptations have been made from things like books and video games. Some are bad, some are good, and some are just mediocre….
Being Bad Can Be So Good
I love bad guys. A good villain can make a story; from an epic space opera about the fall of a galactic empire to a Disney tale about an amphibious princess to the saga of…
The Ardent Eccentric: Mashups
I was driving home last week, on a particularly terrible traffic day, when I heard a commercial for a new radio show hosted by Today Show host Hoda Kotb. In my exhaustion from being on…
The Return of the Captain Marvel Thing, Part 3 – This Captain Marvel is Just Right
Peter David has the three qualities I enjoy seeing in comic book writers: 1. He only writes stories that he would want to read. 2. He has a long-standing feud with J. Michael Straczynski over…
Fiction: Age of Enlightenment – Legion
[What follows is the first (horrible) chapter in what I had planned to submit to Fantasy Flight when they announced they were looking for writers of DragonStar novels. I am keeping all the characters and…
Kholyderz – Worldfall
[NOTE: As Mr. Edmond is currently in the process of aging and getting married on the other side of the United States from his usual side of the United States, we have opted, against his…