Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett puts a bit of weirdness into the urban fantasy genre. It’s not urban – not even close – it’s a very pastoral story. It’s not contemporary, being set in the 1800s. However, it’s definitely not heroic fantasy or horror, and certainly fits more into some elements of urban fantasy than it does to the other subgenres I’m familiar with. It’s also very enjoyable.
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So, the second of the anime series on my New Year’s Resolution list that I’m done with is one I’m dropping – Texhnolyze. I did give it a reasonable try – getting about a cour through the series before I had enough, and because I had the show on my resolution list, I do feel it’s important to talk about why this series failed for me when two other Chiaki Konaka projects – Serial Experiments Lain and The Big O – were fine.
Read moreI get into a discussion of Lost Media – and how being “Lost” is less a binary, and more a spectrum.
So, I’ve posted a bunch of pictures on the blog of Patacon, but I never really got around to talking about Patacon. I should do that.
Read moreIn the past, when I’ve been tired, rushed, burned out, or just hadn’t been able to put a blog post together, I would post pictures of one of my two cats – Patacon – who basically adopted me as her person. My profile photo on Twitch even had me with her on my lap.
She passed away today. She was 16 years old.
It’s time for another book review – as I take a look at one of the titles that was a recent Sword & Laser Book Club pick.
I didn’t intend to be memorializing two entities in the video game fandom and media space this weekend, but this has been a hell of a week, as Romhacking.net has also gone into archive-only mode.
Read moreSo, I will admit I fell behind in writing blog posts for today, so I had planned to post some cat pictures – and then this morning I learned that Game Informer had closed its doors.
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It’s time to take a look at what was going on in the game industry as a whole in late 1997, early 1998.
This month I’m joined by Blaine of the Babylon 5 30 Years Later and 99 Years 100 Films Podcasts (at Bureau42.com) to discuss My Neighbor Totoro & Akira.
On July 12th I went to Prestige Wrestling’s Combat Clash 2024 event at the Viking Pavilion in Portland (which is available for streaming on YouTube). I took a bunch of photos from my seat in the stands, and I figure I’ll just post those here.
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