If you watched TV during the holidays, you may have seen a Hyundai commercial featuring a cute brunette with a big white guitar. It’s no great song, but it’s a bit of an earworm. You might have thought she was annoying, or just didn’t pay attention. But if you’re like me, you became entranced with her goofy smile, her quizzical eyes, and her melodic singing. And you wanted to know more. This girl is Jessica Frech. The Hyundai commercial was my first exposure to her, but she actually gained notice from her music video “People of Walmart”. It’s strangely unrelated to the Hyundai commercial, even though it’s in the same…
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The Books I Read: June – August 2011
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Before George R. R. Martin released his latest doorstopper, this was the big epic taking up every fantasy geek’s time. My interest became piqued when Penny Arcade made a joke about the second book in the trilogy. As was my friend’s, who let me borrow the first book, The Name of the Wind. I loved it right away. The book is framed story about the life of a boy/man named Kvothe, a son of traveling actors. After his troupe is killed by a supposedly mythical person, he has to learn how to live and survive alone. His primary goal is to learn…
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Supergirl More Interesting Than Superman
I’ve talked before about why Superman sucks, and no one seems to realize it. No matter who’s behind the wheel, whether it’s a video game or a movie or a book, they can never seem to make it interesting. Because Superman has no flaws, no obstacles, nothing he wants. He can do anything. Supergirl on the other hand… Girls are fascinating creatures. They’re a lot of fun, dynamic, and live in worlds consisting of drama, passion, and relationships. Just the fact that she’s Supergirl, not Superwoman, implies that she’s got some growing up to do, some learning, some mistakes to be made. Men, are the other hand, live stories of…
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Disney Princess Warriors
Somebody please, please make a comic or video game or something out of this: Can you imagine it? Aurora the wrestler, master of grappling and judo. Tiana the gunner, firearms expert with military training. Pocahantas, traveled North America to learn the fighting arts of the Crow, Apache, Comanche, and so on. Belle the kickboxer. Jasmine has the backing of middle eastern bedouins and deadly with a scimitar. Ariel, imbued with superhero-esque qualities due to her magic, including armor and trident weapon. Snow White, a boxer from the mean inner-city streets. Cinderella, a blade-woman who’s always got a weapon tucked away somewhere. Someone’s gotta run with this. Please? Source: joshwmc’s Deviant…
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Updates
The submissions seem to be in a slump lately. No one’s responding, magzaines have response times that are too long. Agents are not responding with rejections, they’re just ignoring me. I know my story is good, intriguing. What do I have to do to my query letter to make it right? How can this letter get such a positive reaction, and mine’s trash? Tipper and Al Gore are getting divorced. Really? After 40 years of marriage you can’t work out the differences you have? And it’s not like any event preceded this. Al Gore didn’t have an affair, and Tipper wasn’t strung out on heroin and JD (although in my…
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The Hot Girls You Don’t Know About: Felicia Day
This is Felicia Day. As you can see, she’s quite hot. If you’re reading this blog, you actually probably already know about her. She’s the new Parker Posey–queen of the indie film scene–but with more geekiness and less creepy-mouth. She’s the star of “The Guild” (web-based short series about D&D people) and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” (Joss Whedons’ WGA-strike baby) and “The Legend of Neil” (a Zelda parody where she plays a nympho nymph) and finally Vi on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (seventh season). This is her website. This is her IMDB page. She’s a powerful force in the geek world, being in free webisodes, being a writer, actress, and…
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The Hot Girls You Don’t Know About: Tara Perry
This is Tara Perry. As you can see, she’s quite hot. I don’t much about her. I first heard of her when she was on Legend of Neil in a very tiny role as the cheating ex-girlfriend. She appears to be friends with Felicia Day, who was also in Legend of Neil, and who we’ll be talking about later in a further edition. This is her IMDB page, where all thse photos are from. She’s been in a few other minor roles in various incarnations, mostly as a trampy harlot (though I’m sure she’s nice in real life). Her resume shows that she’s got some performance background and can do…
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I Can’t Talk About Rape, So This Entry Contains Nothing About It
UPDATE: Please read this too. Jim C. Hines, who keeps getting more and more fascinating, has posted another entry about rape. He used to be a rape crisis counselor, so he knows a little better the reality of rape, rather than this collegiate newspaper. I can’t talk about it because one out of four women have been raped. If you haven’t been raped yourself, then that number is lower. If you have been raped, then that number is higher. So let’s say it all averages out to 1/4. That means either my mom, my sister, or my wife has been raped. If it’s my wife, I must have done it,…
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Video Game Memories #28: Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts (2002) The first thing I noticed, when I saw/heard about Kingdom Hearts, was the return of all my favorite Final Fantasy characters, who had grown to legendary status in my mind by this point. Squall, Cloud, Aeris (I’ll never call her Aerith), Yuffie, Cid, Sephiroth. The second thing was “They have voices!? Squee!” Imagine it. After years of reading text, and everyone having the voice in my head, I get to hear what Squall sounds like, see how Cloud uses that big sword, what a real-life casting of Fira looks like. And they didn’t use just run-of-the-mill voice actors, they had celebrities. Squall was David Boreanaz, Aeris was…
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Ass-Kicking Women: Buff or Beautiful
One of the common tropes in science-fiction is strong women – Molly Millions, Buffy, Eowyn, Lara Croft, Leeloo – these are all women that know how to fight, know how to plan, and never shirk back from anything. I can’t get enough of them. But here’s the problem – these women are typically more beautiful than buff. They have lean figures, little muscle mass, and small statures. Are these woman seriously going to take out someone like The Big Show crossbred with Andre the Giant infused with demons, cybernetics, and rings of power? This was the question proposed on Jim C. Hines journal (and associated links found therein) a few…
