In my professional duties, I have opportunity to run across long lists of names of local individuals and their families. Now, you all know my predilection for documenting the, um, “creative” names (or the standard names (mis)spelled “creatively”) in this corner of the world, and brother, this list was a doozy. It also gave genders, which…
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Utah names!
My son Jason’s high school graduation place today, and you know what that means — I get to look through the graduation program for “creative” names! Note that it’s the adult education class, so there are quite a few ESL students; I have to be careful not to include any legitimate names from non-Anglo-Saxon cultures….
Sal Velluto Fundraiser Artwork
Last yesterday was the fundraiser to help local comic mainstay Sal Velluto with his bills from cancer treatment. I was honored to be included in the artists (I asked to be one of them) sketching for Sal. I’m actually surprised there was enough interest to keep me mostly busy. I did three commissions: two of…
My story in REDNECK ELDRITCH: “Ostler Wallow”
I am very proud (I think not inordinately) of my story, “Ostler Wallow,” which appears in REDNECK ELDRITCH published earlier this spring. I’m so proud, in fact, that I’m reproducing here the “sneak peek” posted this morning on the Cold Fusion Media website: ********** I aint had the dream abowt the corners for long years….
Woodcuts and such.
“Nathan,” you ask, “why are you so silent? What are you working on that keeps you away from your own blog?” That’s a fair question. I wish I had more to tell you, or more that was in a stage at which it could be told about: I’m under contract to edit a couple of…
Movies Seen Recently: Feast, The Martian, Captain America: Civil War
Feast (2005) – If you’re looking for a movie which concurrently honors and subverts horror movie tropes, forget the criminally overrated Scream. Feast does it much better. In classic fashion, a mismatched assortment of stock characters (no character names, only labels and life expectancies) are trapped in a middle-of-nowhere bar by a trio of fast, vicious…
World Horror Con Schedule!
I’ll be at World Horror Con, April 28th through May 1st in Provo. Here’s my schedule as it currently stands: Thursday at 2pm: “Revisiting Lovecraft: Why is he popular and who is writing Lovecraftian horror?” (with Dan Wells, Jason V. Brock, Michael R. Collings, Eric Swedin) Thursday at 9:30pm: “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse” (with Carter Reid, Michaelbrent Collings, Jaleta Clegg, and Joe McKinney)…
Movies Seen Recently: The Saratov Approach, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Freetown
The Saratov Approach (2013) – Let’s get this out of the way, okay? The two main actors are too old to convincingly play twenty-year-old LDS missionaries, but not by much. There were definitely elders in my mission whose ages I originally guessed to be about ten years more than they were, and Corbin Allred and Maclain…
Salt Lake Comic Con FanX Schedule
What’s the difference between Comic Con and Comic Con FanX? I still haven’t figured it out, but I’ll be there for FanX (March 24-26), and you can find me on these panels: Friday, March 25: 10 AM: “We’ll Always Judge a Book By Its Cover” – Covers are far more important than the platitude implies. Make…
Movies Seen Recently: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, The Stand, Robot Overlords
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) – The Mission: Impossible franchise is in danger of becoming like the James Bond franchise: You can remember that you saw them, and you can remember that you enjoyed them, and you can remember some of the scenes and stunts, but you just can’t remember what happened in each…