As has been my tradition for a couple of decades now, on the Friday before Halloween I hold a monster movie marathon. As long as I’ve got children willing to keep going, I’ll keep throwing on titles from my curated list. Of course, when I began this, my children were all children and lived under…

I’ve finished another sketchbook, so it’s back to sketches of the day!

Apologies for the silence; the day job occupies more time and energy through the fourth quarter (I watched two episodes of Highlander last week, and I still haven’t gotten my summary down in writing), plus I’m between sketchbooks so I don’t even have fresh sketches of the day to put into weekly omnibus posts (although…

I’ve caught up to my sketchbook, so it’ll be few weeks before I’ve got new sketches of the day.  I’ll be posting some random repeats on Instagram and X in the interim.

1:14 For Evil’s Sake – And since we’re now shooting in Paris, we’re going to open this episode with the Frenchest thing we can think of: Mimes. No, really. Murderous mimes, even.  (Also baguettes.) There’s an Immortal assassin named Kuyler operating out of France who likes to use mime disguises, party magic, etc. to win…

1:12 Eyewitness – Tessa sees what looks like a murder on a bridge visible from the window at a gallery, and tries to get the police to pay attention (hey look, it’s that same police detective EVERY TIME — the Seacouver PD must be really small). So naturally she takes it upon herself to be…

The late Stephen Gay Gould is one of my favorite essayists; he combines subject matter about the vagaries and intricacies of natural history with an engaging delivery that showed him to be a well-rounded, endlessly curious man. But of course he (a liberal atheist-leaning agnostic cultural Jew) and I (a believing Latter-day Saint and political…