grumpy-jim

My mother, being the encouraging, supportive type, would, as I was growing up, constantly tell me I was super talented and capable of anything if I set my mind to it. She was very insistent about this. So insistent I naturally, as impressionable young children are wont to do and seeing no evidence to the… [Read the Rest]

c1

Ah, Conan the Destroyer. The Rodney Dangerfield of Conan movies. But you know what, at the risk of being labelled an idiot, I have to admit I kinda like it better than Conan the Barbarian (the original one, not the new version, which I haven’t seen, and I’m still on the fence about seeing —… [Read the Rest]

grumpy_jim

Since I could go senile at any moment, I figured it might make sense to make a list of things I prefer so they know how to entertain me (or conversely piss me off) in the nursing home. I prefer… Hogan’s Heroes to M*A*S*H Deep Space Nine to Voyager Larry Niven to David Niven Conan… [Read the Rest]

grumpy_jim

I look up from cutting the chicken for dinner and out the back window I spot a white and black spot on the lawn, back near the treeline where the groundhogs have their nest/burrow/whatever. Takes me a second to recognize it as the neighbor’s cat, sprawled out on the grass. Enjoying the setting sun, no… [Read the Rest]

"Three Deep One Moon" (2011, Ink on Bristol/Photoshop)

I do my own covers for my books. Not just because I’m too cheap to pay someone else to do them, but also because I fancy myself the artist. The self-taught artist at that–which I think my art clearly demonstrates. Anyway, my dubious talents aside, there are some really good books out there on the… [Read the Rest]

g-fi

In 1987 someone made a movie of the novel Tarnsman of Gor for some reason. Here’s why you should track it down and mock it: Big 80′s haired slave girls dancing with each other while frumpier and bitter slave girls serve drinks with sidecars of glowering condescension. WWE-level Slave Girl fighting! With acrobatics, menacing circling, hair pulling,… [Read the Rest]