The Baked Ziti Recipe
A few people have asked for it so I thought I would toss in a quick post here with the full ziti recipe for future reference. The recipe will fill to about overflowing a 9×13 pan. This is for the normal...
What I’m Listening To – June 2023
And then, just like that, we’re in June. So strange. Anyway, I’m back to highlight a few albums I’ve been listening to on heavy rotation this past month so let’s get to it. Utopia Revisited...
Talking Dazzler Part Two: Where Demons Fear To Dwell!
When last we left our dearest Dazzler (Allison Blaire, if you’re nasty. Wait, no, Janet Jackson lyrics can’t help us now) she had landed her first professional gig – at the expense of pissing off the...
Talking Dazzler Part One: So Bright This Star
Welcome, welcome, welcome! So, today we’re going to take a long, hard look at the first two issues of Dazzler here. And some of you might wonder why in the world anyone would want to poke and prod at...
Ted Lasso Was Not Nice
Since the start of the show I’ve seen people refer to Ted Lasso as nice. “The show about being nice,” “The show whose core is that being nice will get you places,” and so on. And it is...
What I’m Listening To – May 2023
As we leave May and enter June it comes around again to discuss the music I’ve been listening to this month. As always this is a small sample of stuff I listen to, but it is the (roughly) albums I’ve...
Star Trek Weaponry
The other day I was discussing various Star Trek things online, as I am wont do to, and someone (AfterTheHavoc) mentioned that Next Gen armed away teams with non-threatening looking hand weapons. I agreed but also...
Nostalgia, TV, and Entry Points
There’s something new happening with fandoms as far as TV goes. As Gen X (hi) and Millennials continue to age up there’s a large cohort who want to continue what they had when they were kids. Now that,...
The Choices Made When Casting Teens
Just about everyone has, gently or not, mocked some movie or TV show for its casting of teenagers. Mostly along the lines of the show/film casting people who seem way too old to be teens. We’ve all said it,...
Star Trek: The Federation and Starfleet
I’ve been watching Star Trek as long as I can remember. As a child, of course, the big science fiction fun of it all caught me, and then as I grew older the depth of it caught my eye instead. And as I went I...
What I’m Listening To – April 2023
Will ya lookit the time?! End of the month, already and so I guess it is time to tell you some highlights of music I’ve been listening to the most this month! First up I admit I somehow never heard that...
Happy Birthday Lois Lane
On April 18, 1938 Action Comics #1* was released. The world was introduced to Superman, but everyone will write about him. We’re here to discuss the other major character introduced that issue – Lois Lane. *(...
Engaging Senses When Writing
When you’re writing prose you, generally, are always acting as the reader’s eyes. You’re describing the setting, and showing them the world. But we have five senses. Engaging them each is a great...
The Strange History of Advertising on This Site
This blog has been around for about twenty years at this point. I don’t have an exact date as sometime in late 2012 I nuked every post from before early August that year. There was simply too much debris, too...
What I’m Listening To – March 2023
It’s that time once more, where I list a few albums I’ve been listening to a bunch this month. Like every month, I listen to a mix of old and new (to me) things. This month was overwhelmed by older...