Saturday, February 19th from 2pm to 4pm, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Mike McPhail, Jeff Young, Peter Prellwitz and Robert E. Waters will be featured at a launch party for the book By Other Means, the latest in the award-winning Defending The Future military science fiction anthology series. The event will be held at the Midtown Scholar in…
The opening song for the movie The Court Jester includes the memorable line: “Plot we’ve got, quite a lot!” And it is all the more memorable for being so true. (The Court Jester, if you have not seen it, really does have a great deal of plot, most of it both convoluted and humorous.)…
A reader and friend who is a fan of donkeys and who is a supporter of a wonderful donkey sanctuary in England, sent me some delightful photos of donkeys she picked out to represent the various characters from the Prospero’s Daughter Trilogy. I like to think of this as what happens the day that Logistilla’s…
Welcome, Everyone, glad to be back! Plot is the part of the story that compels the reader forward, the logical structure upon which the narrative hangs. So what makes a great plot? I was going to write a post on this topic but, when reviewing the Poetics, I realized that Aristotle said it better: As…
Juss, upon receiving a MacDonald’s Happy Meal: “But Mom! I got a girltoy!” Mom: “I asked for a boytoy.” Juss: “Well, I got a girltoy.” Mom: “You were supposed to get a trunk.” Juss, voice filled with outrage and horrified astonishment, “I got a pony!” comments
I will not give you the whole sordid story. I will merely say that in the future, I would like to arrange with all my pets that they pass on during warm weather when the earth is not frozen. Burying your dear pet is so much nicer than keeping it on your porch in a…
You gotta watch this! Amazing Coolation Robot Action comment
Juss, commenting upon a Penny Arcade comic in which one of the characters threatens to kill himself, take over the afterworld, and come back to destroy the other (for the offence of thinking that Warhammer was a rip-off of its spin-offs.) : “But if you want to take over the afterworld after you die, you…
Posted for no particular reason. comments
The Princess is still asleep, maybe because I told her she had to do something other than just go downstairs today. Juss and Orville tried to play on the Wii, but Juss threw such a terrible fit for so long that I had to go down, turn it off, and hold him and pray for…