by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 22, 2016 | Wild Cards
Carrie Vaughn, one of our amazing writers has given us a terrific story about the character she created for Fort Freak. This is all about Rikki before she became a cop, and it’s a lovely slice of life about Jokertown. Not everything in a superhero universe has to be about saving New York, or the world, or the universe. Here’s the link The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown Enjoy.
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 17, 2016 | General
Last night I finished reading a terrific short story by my friend Connie Willis. She is a wonderful writer, and also a terrific human being. I’m not generally a reader of short fiction. I love novels where I can wallow and spend a lot of time with the characters, but Connie is one of the masters of the short form. Right now I’m reading a collection called The Best of Connie Willis, and I hit the story “Inside Job”. It’s about a skeptic writer dealing with a...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 12, 2016 | General
If you visit my website and come to my blog and post a comment, and it attacks my friends — one in particular — you know who I am talking about so pay attention trolls. I will file your comment in a round file called trash. You do again and I’ll block you. I moderate all comments so you aren’t going to have an opportunity to spread your nastiness on my site. Because it’s my site. My rules. My friend. My best friend. So take your entitled little self off...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 12, 2016 | TV & Movies
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them What can you say about a movie that is kind and sweet? I say hooray and what a pleasant change from CGI violence and redemptive violence as the solution to every problem, and manufacturing conflict between friends and natural allies. (I’m looking at you Captain America: Civil War and Batman versus Superman.) ******************************** HERE COME SPOILERS************************ First the few quibbles I did have with the film. I don’t think the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 21, 2016 | TV & Movies
I got caught up on a few movies the past couple of weeks. I thought I’d try to gather my thoughts about all of them in one place rather then single posts about each. YES, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. THE ACCOUNTANT — this was almost a good movie. it wasn’t horrible, but it went completely sideways in the final third. When it was about an autistic child then man trying to cope in the world, and when it was about forensic accounting it was really interesting and well done. And...
