I won’t lie, I stopped watching ESPN more than a decade ago. This train wreck was coming for a long time, but I didn’t think the nail in the coffin would be due to virtue signalling politics overriding its core mission as a company. The reason I stopped is because of the extreme east coast […]
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Jon Del Arroz’s Based Dragon Award Recommendations
Ran a poll yesterday on which blog my readers would like to see next, and the winner by no uncertain terms was my recommendation for Dragon Award nominations. If you haven’t seen the Dragon Awards before, they are the premier award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, given at Dragon*Con, arguably the best convention that exists. […]
When The Opposition Media Makes No Sense
Some of my favorite mornings are when my blog gets a truckload of angry comments. It means that not only have I done something right, but that somewhere out there, fake news has completely twisted what I said to imply what I didn’t say. Today, it was phony outrage about giving out free books to […]
Authors Who Care About Fans And Readers
I am pleased to make an announcement on behalf of several great authors in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community.That announcement is: fans, we care about you, and we want you to have a good time. We support your coming out to express yourself in fandom. A couple of weeks ago, an invited headlining guest flaked […]
The Uprising Review (Feat. Jon Del Arroz)
Over on Gab.ai (the best social media network on the internet as they allow free speech, don’t shadowban or ban anyone), I met a couple of editors and writers who had an ambitious project they wanted to launch. That project is the Uprising Review. The concept of this site is to provide true free speech for […]
Winning, Mindset, and Habits
One of the most common questions i get asked these days is how I’m so productive with a job, family, kids, all my hobbies and whatnot. The truth is that the all my hobbies really don’t occupy much of my time. While I have a wide variety of passionate interests in sci-fi, baseball, gaming, science […]
Wrongthink Sci-Fi Giveaway
http://badnovelist.com/announcing-the-wrongthink-sci-fi-giveaway/ Some of my favorite writers are running a giveaway for their books. This is a pretty phenomenal group, and of course they are all terrible horrible wrongthinkers who should probably be banned from publishing. So if you want to read why their ideas are so dangerous, you can for free! Great deal. Incredible […]
The Last Crusade: On Loyalty
You’ll find quite often with the worldly that there’s a distinct lack of loyalty. As soon as you start letting it be known you’re a Christian, speaking out on Christianity, spending time and energy with your Christian brothers and sisters – you’ll notice that your former friends will begin to ostracize you. They’ll find a […]
I Have An Extremely Important Message For Your Friday
But I think it’ll be better stated by Kero Kero Bonito, so I’ll let them tell you.
First Take On Fantasy Flight’s Legend Of The Five Rings Reboot
Yesterday, Fantasy Flight Games put out the first real information on their relaunch of L5R, which is probably my favorite all time game if I really get down into it. It struggled a bit after the “race for the throne” to hold a lot of people’s attention — which as a Megaevent where the card […]
Words From The Wise
“Anyone accusing another of being ‘unchristian’ for disagreement on political, philosophical, or abstract matters uses the Name of the Lord in vain. Accusations will be deleted and accusers banned without further notification.” – John C Wright (on the sidebar for the rules of his blog). I firmly believe and agree with this. And will be […]
It’s Time To Burn The Ships In Publishing
I still have a few readers out there who have zero concerns over entertainment industry blackballing issues. They’re firmly planted in the “it can’t happen to me” mentality, where “it’s okay” because “Trump supporters are mean!” or some nonsense. This is where most people would talk about fascism, but that word is losing all of […]
