I absolutely love Halloween. I love the pumpkins, and the spooky decorations, and the candy. When I was a kid I loved dressing up in the most creative costume I could think of and venturing out into the neighborhood to trick-or-treat with my dad and sister. And as an adult, I love staying in to […]
It’s the Wednesday after Dragon Con. The hotel lobbies are empty and quiet, the food courts aren’t running at full speed in order to fuel 70,000 hungry nerds, my friends have all dispersed back to their homes which are scattered all across the country, and I’m not wearing a costume. Dragon Con 2015 is officially over and […]
Syfy premiered their new epic space drama Killjoys in June and I’ll admit, I’m already hooked. Killjoys tells the story of a trio of intergalactic bounty hunters who are just trying to do their jobs chasing their prey through the Quad and avoiding what could become an intergalactic war. It’s impossible for me to not […]
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab is available February 24th, 2015 from Tor Books. It’s received starred reviews from Publishers’ Weekly and Library Journal. If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’ve probably already figured out that I like things that involve England and magic and monsters and fairy tales. Also pirates […]
Disclaimer: This post is overflowing with spoilers for Harry Potter, Arrow, Star Wars EU, The West Wing, Firefly, The Hunger Games, and Battlestar Galactica. Proceed at your own risk. Death is a part of life. Everyone who lives, has to eventually die. Which, when you think about it, really kind of sucks. Sure, it makes […]
I was twelve when I fell in love with the Star Wars Expanded Universe. A few weeks after marathoning the original trilogy for the first time (til then I’d only watched the movies individually) I was wandering a bookstore, perusing the SciFi and Fantasy section for something new when I discovered a tiny little pocket […]
It’s not really a secret that if there’s an archer in any form of media, they’re likely to become my favorite character. I’m not really sure why or how this came to be, it’s just the way of the world. And when an archer pops up in a book, show, movie, or video game, it’s […]
Dragon Con is only two days away (flails excitedly) and you’re probably scrambling to pack, make last-minute costume adjustments, and getting ready to hit the road. You’ve put so much thought into getting there on time with costumes intact that you probably haven’t even stopped to think about what you’re going to eat this weekend. But, I […]
This year marks the ten-year anniversary of when Teija and I started attending Dragon Con. (Excuse me, but where did all of that time go? Did we enter some sort of wormhole without my knowledge?) That first year, we didn’t really know what we were getting into. We just showed up on Friday afternoon, got our […]