Geek Gab Episode 36: The Force Awakens
Join a schlock hack SF writer and the infallible Daddy Warpig for the only review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens you'll ever need!
Creed (2015)
I'm glad that Daddy Warpig and Red Letter Media made me aware of this hidden gem. Otherwise I would have missed it amid the hype surrounding other Christmas season movie releases. For the sake of those who haven't seen the movie yet, I'll keep this review as spoiler-free as possible.…
Return of the Amazon Zombie Memes
Legacy publishers just refuse to let those zombie memes die! Whether it's claiming that Amazon is a monopoly or that all eBook sales are declining, champions of the publishing status quo keep regurgitating patent falsehoods no matter how many times they're refuted. You really can't blame them. How else can…
A Discussion of Sci-Fi Soul Swapping
The perennial subject of mind/soul-swapping as portrayed in science fiction recently came up at John C. Wright's blog. Reader Kevin Stuart Lee kicked things off. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the metaphysics of mind transfer. Does that tenet of the singularitarians and transhumanists assume materialism? If so,…
Why Oligarchs Love Equality
In a perfect followup to my post on why Liberalism inevitably leads to tyranny, Murray Rothbard presents a devastating explanation for why egalitarianism is always championed by elitists. Rothbard begins by debunking the modern idea of equality. For 'equality' means 'sameness' — two entities are 'equal' if and only if…
Operation: Silent Night
The wait is over! Star Wars: The Force Awakens has finally been released to enraptured audiences. Unfortunately, I was not among them. The only showing that wasn't sold out was in 3D, which to me doesn't make movies look three-dimensional so much as it turns them blurry and induces migraines. Instead…
There’s No Voting Our Way out of This
A previous post on how the tide is turning against legacy media and its Leftist bias drew commenters who rightly observed that I offered no solutions for the current political crisis. Right up front, let me point out that I'm a schlock hack SF writer who is unqualified to propose…
How to Handle Character Agency in Your Writing
Continuing my loose series on advice for aspiring authors, it's time to address a subject that will leave hardcore outliners scratching their heads, but will have organic/discovery writers nodding in commiseration. That subject is character agency. Or, as frustrated writers lament: "What should I do if my characters want to…
New Media vs. Legacy Media: At the Turn of the Tide
A close relative recently confided in me that he's been struggling against a pervasive sense of despair. He's a faithful Christian and dedicated family man whose politics lean conservative. Yet his professional culture and the media he pays attention to bombard him with narratives contrary to his principles on a…
Geek Gab Episode 35: At the Movies
In this cinematic episode of Geek Gab, Daddy Warpig and I review some movies we saw over the past week. DW discusses Creed and the final movie in the Hunger Games series. As for me, I take us way over time with my Krampus review. Check it out!