One thing I learned last Saturday is that playwrights Peter and Anthony Shaffer are identical twin brothers. How cool is that? (And also, how much would it suck when your professional artistic rival is the guy to whom you’ve been compared all your life? Peter Shaffer is most famous for…
Eighteen things I miss about SNES 16-bit video games:
I can’t think of anything interesting to write about. So here are some speculative fiction for middle grade and young adult readers that I like. None of them is by any means flawless, but I enjoyed them all. So there. As a bonus, here is one non-speculative fiction middle-grade book…
I have a habit of seeing movies way after their original release dates, and such is the case with Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. But I saw it in IMAX! Doesn’t that count for something? Anyway, I found the movie really gripping. If you read this blog regularly and know…
One of my playwriting professors at Queen’s once advised our class that the way to tell when a piece of writing you were working on was done was when you no longer felt embarrassed to have other people read or perform it. Sound principle. He then, however, added a caveat:…
That, if you were wondering, was the sound of me this Friday afternoon. See, my sister’s birthday is around the end of the month, but since we won’t be in the same city that week, we decided to arrange for her present now. If you know my sister, you won’t…
I’ve been meaning to re-read His Dark Materials ever since I attended a lecture by Philip Pullman in November. Because I’m an awful procrastinator, I haven’t yet done so. BUT – I did see The Golden Compass this month when it was one of the movies available on that cool…
Sorry for the delay and the strange site stuff happening yesterday – domain renewal troubles! (Aka, this is a funny way of celebrating this site’s first anniversary…) But first, if you missed it, an update to the About Me section. So, for those of you who don’t know, from season…
Otherwise known as, “here are some books and films I read and/or watched lately”. Because I don’t have anything else to write about, I will tell you what I thought of them. 1. The House on Haunted Hill (1959).
I finally decided to give the Toronto Public Library another shot after previously experiencing its excruciatingly long wait times. Lo and behold, books I put on hold are coming trickling, nay, flooding in at a heretofore unprecedented rate. So, of course, I decided to read them and then write pithy…