Well, to start, who is Thomas Carnacki? Thomas Carnacki was a supernatural detective, in stories written by William Hope Hodgson in the early 20th century. Carnacki himself was not supernatural (or, as he would have said “ab-natural”) — he just … Continue reading
I’ve written before about my idea of how to best adapt a book into a movie: throw out the book and make a good movie (as Howard Hawks did, for example, when adapting To Have and Have Not, a mediocre … Continue reading
This blog post does have a point, but it may take me a little while to get there, so if you get impatient, you can go down to the bold heading that says “The Point.” In a recent article in … Continue reading
I was somewhat interested when I read this: “Can Bullet Journaling Save You?” I remembered that Maggie, over at Maggie Madly Writing wrote about bullet journals a while back. So, I read the New Yorker article in that casual way … Continue reading
When I was married — a very long time ago — my wife and I would sometimes check out new TV shows, usually sitcoms. Mostly we didn’t care for them, but occasionally there was a new show that we’d think … Continue reading
I’ve been following, at a polite distance, all the disappointment (and outrage) about the end of the Game of Thrones TV show. It’s been interesting, since failures of storytelling are always good to study. For example, I’ve ended up with … Continue reading