(Part 1 is here.) “Why don’t you be like me? Why don’t you stop and see? Why don’t you hate who I hate, kill who I kill to be free?” -The Monkees, Randy Scouse Git Last time, I was talking about how pop-culture aspects are a viable source of inspiration, or even workable [...]
“…state my assumptions.” – Darren Aronofsky, Pi. All of my writing, from my earliest diary notes to Guttershaman and beyond are, at heart, an attempt to explain & justify my perspective of the world to others in a coherent and hopefully interesting way. That perspective is… hard to explain simply. But here goes, again: [...]
“The majority is always sane.” - Larry Niven, Ringworld “Happy Halloween, ladies… Nuns – no sense of humour.” – The Kurgan, in Highlander —————————————————————— All my life, the stories that have spoken to me have invariable been from what are usually considered the ‘lesser’ kinds of storytelling – science fiction, comics, B-movies, horror, [...]