Author: Nathan

I have a half-dozen art and model projects in various stages of completion; with Steamfest this coming weekend, I need to sticks forks in some of them. First up, some improved shots of the spiderhead I showed last time: This next one is called The Book of Lives, and is as close to a “pure”…

When I came out of Man of Steel with my sons (it seemed like a guy movie), by fifteen-year-old said, “That was awesome.” My response was, “It was pretty good.”  And then I spent the whole drive home listing my disappointments. Some of my complaints appeared in point form in yesterday’s Cheap Caffeine comic, and…

Not a review so much as a collection of anecdotes. I think I first saw this movie in my teens; I’m not sure. Maybe not all of it. But that was when I lived in Canada. I watched it again about fifteen years ago, when I had moved to Utah, and had just finished working…

For the past several years, my practice on Independence Day is to repost (with tweaks as they present themselves) an essay honoring America that I wrote a while back and didn’t think I could top.  Then the server crash wiped out everything on my blog, and with the press of other projects I haven’t even…

I’ve been working on this for several weeks, off and on.  The lawn may not best the best backdrop, alas. That head is fully head-sized. I’ll have this for sale at Steamfest.  Not sure about the price yet.  

Yes, I know. There’s no way I can address this subject without sticking my foot in it, which is why “have a dialog on race” has become synonymous with “shut your piehole because anything you say, someone’s going to take as evidence that you’re racist.”  Nevertheless. This post’s proximate cause is one small channel in…