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Articles
A miscellany of random thoughts, geekery, reviews and other mysterious stuff careening around my addled brain.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Yesterday, I climbed a mountain to get away from it all. 12,000 feet and a thousand miles away wasn’t quite far enough…
A Lost Civilization
…civilizations can vanish if they aren’t able to, or refuse to, react to change. Here’s hoping we realize the stakes.
Hello from Fury Road
With the West engulfed in flames, everywhere in between a Petri dish of toxicity, our once leisurely travel across the formerly United States more resembles a sequel to Fury Road…
Wait!?! I have a blog?
A little embarrassing, but I just logged into ye olde website and saw my last post was in April with the release of Crimson Son 4: Legacy. As I type, I’m also noticing WordPress has seriously updated their interface. It’s… Read More ›
The Tragedy of Danny Rand
View at Medium.com Danny Rand’s appearance in Luke Cage season two gave comic book fans a glimmer of hope for the second run of Iron Fist. The man with the glowing fist appeared dashing, confident, and seemed to have found his place in… Read More ›
Bracing for Impact
Turmoil and change are often great fodder for creativity. The threshold between what was and what will be is the perfect recipe for fiction. Every story is about becoming or undoing (or both – see The Stormblade Saga…) and the… Read More ›
Minimalist Mindset
Last weekend we managed to squeeze in a trip in Discovery. We found a hidden gem of a state park only three hours outside the summer kiln of Dallas / Fort Worth. We lounged lakeside enjoying the thrill of doing… Read More ›
A Transformation Long in the Making – Luke Cage Season Two
When Luke Cage first debuted on Netflix, even a jaded media consumer could tell we were witnessing a change. For too many years media conglomerates called the shots based on faulty assumptions of what would “work” and what wouldn’t using… Read More ›
Putting Your Dreams In Storage…
Books aren’t all that great for a mobile lifestyle. They’re heavy. Awkward to store. And those glorious displays of leather, or matte and glossy spines on open shelves would never survive the four point magnitude earthquake of going from place… Read More ›
RUSS LINTON 