You know why I’d make an awful evil villain? Because, when I get really angry, I start to cry and shake. What an awful climactic confrontation scene that would be: imagine, Harry Potter flings off his Invisibility Cloak – Indiana Jones swings down from above and lands between me and…
Happy New Year, everyone! No matter what your religion, ethnicity, or creed, I think we can all agree that, according to the Gregorian calendar used by the majority of the world, the arbitrary time at which one year segues into another is rapidly approaching. So enjoy it! Because this is…
To those who celebrate Christmas: merry Christmas! To those who celebrate another holiday: hope you get whatever you want to get out of your observance! To those who celebrate nothing: want to come to the movies with me? So what is fanfiction, anyway?
That is the title of the Paul Zim cassette tape my family plays every Chanukah. If you are not Jewish (or if you are Jewish but aren’t a dork), you are probably wondering who the heck Paul Zim is. That is what Google is for. The thing about Chanukah is…
Because I just can’t let it die. (Yes, it’s Harry Potter again. Shut up.) But first – apparently I have a separated-at-birth Internet twin from Urbana, IL. Dude! Okay, so Slytherin.
Does that title make sense in the context of what I’m about to type? Probably not. But, rest assured, it will contain the word “storytelling”. This is largely due to the fact that I can’t really imagine discussing Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman without it. The Pillowman is one of those…
Seriously. The Seeker – wtf? Why would you go to the trouble of getting the rights to a series of books when all you really want to do is use the characters’ names and make up your own story? For those of you who haven’t read Susan Cooper’s The Dark…
So if you want to understand this post at all, you need to remember Guess Who. A board game only fractionally more challenging than Hungry Hungry Hippos, it involved a flat of little doors for each player. Each door had a picture of a “character” with a unique set of…
But first… happy twentieth birthday to Debra, my little – uh, younger sister! She is in Copenhagen on exchange right now, but I think everybody who reads this and knows her should send her a “happy birthday” email right away. And make sure to do as our parents did and…