I remember seeing Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away in the theatre, and I think it holds the record, in my experience, for the fastest time in making a small child cry. I have no idea what movie the child’s parents thought they were taking her to, but I don’t […]
Jim Hines gives himself back pain so that you don’t have to, by imitating the poses of urban fantasy covers and others. (Possibly NSFW??)
Karl Schroeder points to the prologue of his upcoming book (Ashes of Candesce, the fifth book in the Virga series), while a BBC podcast looks at women-only societies in scifi.
Ursula K. Le Guin talks about that crucial member of any artsy household, a new cat!
Videogame developer Ross Mills was concerned that a British educational toy store was selling Anakin Skywalker toys figures, given that Anakin had massacred a village of sand people, tried to kill his teacher and slaughtered a school of Jedi younglings. The Early Learning Centre responded with an excellent […]
At Wired, GeekDad takes a look at the impending launch of a fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons so soon after a fourth: “For the past few years, starting with the very announcement of 4E and the Virtual Tabletop debacle, Wizards has been very poor at communicating honestly […]
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