Monthly Archives: October 2010

What are the key elements of Steampunk?

I have a notion of some of them: Victorian sensibilities, machinery out-of-time, adventuresome ideals…but I know that I don’t fully understand the genre. Having received a challenge to write a Steampunk novel for NaNoWriMo and having gleefully accepted (because I’ve … Continue reading

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RieView: Seeing RED

Ever since we saw the first trailers for RED with Bruce Willis, we’ve anticipated going to see it. And from the first, we agreed it was a Drafthouse movie. Some things just are… It was everything I expected it to … Continue reading

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Who's Your Hero?

I was watching an episode of the latest British incarnation of ROBIN HOOD the other day, and I was struck by something… ROBIN HOOD is the English SUPERMAN, isn’t he? In America, we are constantly re-envisioning the Superman story — … Continue reading

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Baby steps

Well, here we go. Over the next few weeks, I will be learning how this interface works, so things will be in a state of flux, but I will finally have a new home for the website that will be … Continue reading

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