One of my very favourite short stories is “A Study In Emerald”, by Neil Gaiman, which speculates on what might happen if the famous Victorian detective, Sherlock Holmes, had lived in the same universe as the famous Victorian horror-demonic-god-creature, Cthulhu. I’m not such a big fan of Lovecraft myself, but, if you’ve looked at half [...]

Whenever I play any game in the Legend of Zelda series, I find myself getting a lot jumpier. Like, I’ll keep thinking I’m seeing things out of the corners of my eyes, or, when I go to bed at night, I can’t shake the feeling that something might be right beside me if I just [...]

We seem to have a strong intuition that part of what makes us human is our ability to die. Witness the countless stories in which the villains’ goal is to live forever, or in which a character demonstrates his or her essential humanity by giving up the opportunity to do so: J. K. Rowling’s Harry [...]

I try to post blogs only about works that make me feel something strongly, whether that something is outrage or admiration, melancholy or joy. Today, I’ve decided to go with “joy”. And that means… math!

After last week’s big old long post about criticism, I figured I’d like to get back in the not-tl;dr-post game. But what to write about? Then I remembered: c’est l’Hallowe’en! Everyone knows that Hallowe’en is a time to dress up, get candy, and have fun. There’s no greater moral to be learned here (unless it’s [...]