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Gather around, Girls, and listen closely, for I have discovered the secret of men! Not real men, mind you. Real men, like real women, are mysteries only Divine Providence can unravel. No, what I have discovered is a secret, a clue, to writing about realistic male characters.  I first discovered that women, as a rule, were…

We bought a new computer recently. We gathered advice from a few of our computer savvy friends and picked a model that would cause us the least amount of grief. Basically, we updated the hardware but stuck with the software we already knew. The plan was to improve performance without affecting the rest of our…

 Here’s a repost of one of my anime articles from my Manga.com days… Lilac Hair and Enormous Eyes Ever wonder why your favorite anime character has chartreuse hair and pupils the size of saucers? No, it is not just a bizarre whim on the part of the Japanese. Both extraordinary features got their start in the…

Time was when the Romance section of the bookstore was a safe and cozy retreat from all things unfrivolous. Sure, there might be an occasional gothic or mystery romance with a terrifying moment, but one could basically rely on the fact that any book you took off the shelves would be sugar and like, like…

This post is intended to illustrate the * in the above post.  Most ladies I know are either Captain Jack Swallow girls, or Will Turner girls, or maybe even Nord..Norr — er..the other guy from the three-way swordfighting scene– girls. Not me. Were an alternate version of me thrust into the world of the pirate movie, held…

Many years ago, our friend whom we affectionately referred to as Dave Jetski called me to tell me about a new video game he thought I might like called Population II. Poor Dave, I railed on for twenty minutes about why I did not care for video games and only liked roleplaying games. I went…

 Once while trolling the web, I came upon a description of a Near Death Experience during which the person was told that twenty people praying together could stop a war. I have since come upon similar ideas in several other places. This inspired me to gather together a small group of approximately twenty people with…