Chanbara and Wuxia and Podcasts, Oh My!
This is a rumination based on an interchange with the podcast Jianghu Hustle. The podcast is a consideration of wuxia and adjacent cinema in regards… Read More »Chanbara and Wuxia and Podcasts, Oh My!
This is a rumination based on an interchange with the podcast Jianghu Hustle. The podcast is a consideration of wuxia and adjacent cinema in regards… Read More »Chanbara and Wuxia and Podcasts, Oh My!
Please be warned, this is kind of a political rant – not about current politics – that is long and tedious. Basically, in my games,… Read More »Status Quo? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Status Quo!
I have really cut back on my RPG podcasts. I listen to very few these days, spending time instead with history, national security, and current… Read More »The Backstory to Jianghu Hustle
The last post basically outlined the introductory episode/issue to my version of Iron Fist. In it, Wu met Danny Rand, a martial arts practioner but… Read More »Fraser’s Iron Fist Story
So in the last post, I discussed how I would have approached the Netflix Iron Fist. There’s no way this can ever amount to anything,… Read More »Fraser’s Iron Fist: Issue/Episode One
In a discussion about the Marvel series on Netflix, someone asked – since I was very disappointed with Iron Fist – what would I have… Read More »If I Had My Dream Job (AKA Fraser’s Iron Fist)
A recent In Our Time episode, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discussed the Greek city-state of Thebes. There were a couple of points that really… Read More »One For Thebes
I picked up Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia from the Great Courses. I don’t find Dr. Alexis Q. Castor as good of… Read More »Immortals from Between the Rivers
I’ve written before about the novel I was working on called Daughter of Glory. About a year ago, I was looking at updating it and… Read More »New Daughters, New Glory
A recent episode of In Our Time focused on the Japanese artist Hokusai, and the discussion turned to Japan at the time and Hokusai’s place… Read More »Artist as Protagonist