Category: Writer’s Blog

Paraphrased lines from The Terminator aside, artificial intelligence still has a way to go before it approaches true human cognition (at which point I’m also confident it will develop human neuroses, which is either terrifying or reassuring depending on how […]
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So we just finished Memorial Day Weekend here in the States, which is ostensibly an observance day for the sacrifice of soldiers past, but mostly these days is an opportunity for people to get out and enjoy the park, or […]
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Remember when you were a teenager and everything bad that happened seemed like the end of the world? And you just couldn’t make your parents understand how much your life was OVER because you let out an audible fart in […]
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You know, I feel like a break from commenting on current events, even if they are interesting from an apoc-fiction perspective. It’s a bit like researching a war by being close to the front, I feel… “Wow, here I am […]
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“Waiting for the other shoe to drop” is an English-language expression, one of whose meanings is that, having experienced an unpleasant surprise, you hesitate in anticipation of a follow-up. The proverbial BOHICA, as it were. It originates from tenement living […]
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There was a day a couple of weeks ago where, for a short time at least, Los Angeles had the cleanest air in the world. Yeah, L.A. The place where the term “smog” was coined. It was better these days […]
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The ongoing pandemic is a global crisis, yet has (perhaps inevitably) resulted in people focusing closer to home. I swear that despite the world wide Internet of information it’s become harder to find out what’s going on outside the United […]
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A man attacks and stabs an Asian-American family in a Texan supermarket–including a two-year-old–because according to the official report “he thought the family was Chinese and infecting people with the coronavirus”. Another man intentionally derails the freight train he’s driving […]
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Coming up on week 3 of the lockdown here in California. Well, “lockdown” isn’t the right word, since again we’re not really seeing any enforced travel restrictions as of yet. And honestly because of that, there have been enough people […]
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Well the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spiral into new funkiness. Last Thursday L.A. County declared a “Safer at Home” order with a tentative expiration date of April 19th. The State of California shortly followed with a similar order but no […]
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Sarah Palin dancing in a pink bear costume and singing “Baby Got Back” may just go down as my number one Harbinger of the Apocalypse. I joke at times that everything interesting happens on a Wednesday, i.e. the day after […]
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Ten years ago I wrote the following on my World FAQ for Zombie Ranch: “There’s been a bit of a zombie apocalypse, and as a result many of the major cities were rendered uninhabitable by hordes of flesh-eaters and the […]
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There’s a trope I’ve discussed before called Death of the Author. It’s not about the literal passing of a given scribe, but rather the idea that their work is something that exists independently of their personal intents, politics, etc. So […]
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DISCLAIMER: The following “script” image is satire. Thankfully. I believe I will keep this saved as a perfect case study in “how to get your artist to kill you in your sleep.” No, strike that. The artist will probably want […]
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Oh, not in the usual sense you’d use role model, no. That ain’t me, folks. I drink, I cuss, I let empty soda cans pile up on my desk until they get in the way of my computer screen and […]
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[This somehow didn’t get published last week, though it was written out! Oof. Well, here it is anyhow — Clint] So as you might recall, we full on got accepted into San Diego Comic Con 2019 as a jury selection […]
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Terry Jones, one of the founding members of Monty Python, passed away last week. Man, it just hasn’t been a good decade for British humorists named Terry, has it? But much like Terry Pratchett before him, Jones was suffering from […]
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A lot of folk are aware there’s a big video game release in the pipe for later this year produced by CD Projekt Red, the same people behind the acclaimed game adaptations of The Witcher. Mind you the very latest […]
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I gotta tell you folks, when you take as long a break as we just recently did you can wonder how it’ll be to “come back to work,” as it were. I did wonder at times. Thankfully, Dawn and I […]
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*according to Clint I’ve given my opinions on many a movie, television series, and/or video game in my decade-long tenure here at the Ranch, and in the case of the latter two media have often encountered a problem in that […]
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