Failing again. Failing better.
So, for those readers who are not in America, tomorrow is Independence Day. This means it’s a day for doing super American things like sleeping in, eating too much, drinking too much, and blowing stuff up. Accordingly, I’ve turned off my alarm, I’m found one last bottle of home-brewed beer, and I just finished trimming…
SAGA, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples picks up where Volume 1 left off. This big, bizarre, beautiful story continues to grow and blossom and surprise readers in the most enjoyable way. This review assumes you’ve read Volume 1. It contains spoilers for those who have not. When we left off, Marko’s…
I first heard Carrie Cuinn (when she was a guest on the Functional Nerds podcast (You can listen to episodes 130, 131, 133, and 134 here). While I was listening to those episodes, I remember myself nodding along or saying, “YES!” to many of her points (well, saying it silently, as I don’t normally talk…
Just a few random notes before people start their weekend. Please take a moment to check out my Clarion West Write-A-Thon page. As of last night, I was five days into the Write-A-Thon, and I was meeting my 1,000 words a day commitment (5,215 total, to be precise). If you can, please consider sponsoring me.…
We’ve all be there. You’re bored in class or a conference or while waiting for an appointment. You start to doodle. Eventually, to pass the time, you play a game of tic-tac-toe to pass the time. But it rarely helps. Why does tic-tac-toe fail? One word: tie. Game after game, tie after tie. Then it’s…