By Jim on August 31, 2010
PvPonline » Archive » Mark Waid is Right. Scott Kurtz weighs in on the state of comics, filesharing, and copyright. Well worth the read.
Posted in Asides | Tagged comics, copyright, filesharing, Scott Kurtz
By Jim on August 30, 2010
I’ve always enjoyed old spirituals with their rhythmic chants and call-and-respond style of lyrics. “Awake O’ Sleeper” strikes as me as something of a contemporary-style spiritual. Awake O’Sleeper from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo.
Posted in General | Tagged music, music videos, spirituals
By Jim on August 30, 2010
Rain lashed down on that ravaged plain in furious sheets. The broken earth drank it up through ragged cracks that went down forever. At the center of the plain, a gaping maw of a hole sucked down water in great, sodden gulps. Perversely, gouts of flame licked up out of it, unnaturally green and purple. [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, magic, monsters
By Jim on August 30, 2010
NASA’s dizzying concept art imagines ribbons of farmland in space. I’d live in one of these habitats.
Posted in Asides | Tagged NASA, science fiction, space
By Jim on August 24, 2010
Didn’t your mother ever tell you, “Make sure you put on clean underwear because you never know when you might be in a car accident?” Mine sure did. I don’t really know why it matters, though. If you’re in a car accident, underwear is probably the last thing anyone’s going to be worrying about. In [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark humor
By Jim on August 24, 2010
The albino stood on the platform and dragged the knife down his forearm. Blood ran in scarlet rivulets over his hand, his fingers. It dripped the sidereal pattern of his god onto the wooden planks around his feet. Before him the air shimmered as it struggled to call forth his deity. The hot sun bore [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, magic
By Jim on August 23, 2010
The place smelled like shit and piss. “I thought these things didn’t have bodily excretions,” I called out to my partner. “They’re not supposed to,” she replied. “For some reason this one does. Someone’s been hard at work making a clank that can process food the way humans do.” The clank was a junker, alright, [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged clanks, murder, mystery, noir, steampunk
By Jim on August 20, 2010
Penny Arcade – Reformat the Planet, Part 1. This is an interesting look into a musical movement I didn’t even know existed — chip music. (74 minutes total.)
Posted in Asides | Tagged chip music, music, PATV
By Jim on August 18, 2010
msnbc video: Olbermann: There is no ‘Ground Zero Mosque’. Well said, Keith. Well said.
Posted in Asides | Tagged Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Muslims
By Jim on August 18, 2010
In hindsight, Trista realized she probably shouldn’t have fallen asleep under that tree. – Pus dripped into Trista’s eyes from the multiple infected sores on her scalp. She wanted to wipe it away, but the tree held her fast, pinning her arms to her sides, arms she could no longer feel. Feverish and frequently delirious, [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged dark fantasy, dark fiction, fantasy |
