“What I Did On My Winter Staycation” by Michael
Wow, it’s been a long holiday season. And I took a much deserved, and serendipitous, vacation. I did not plan the vacation to be a NINE DAY break — it just worked out that way. I did not plan to be off when a book I’ve waited almost 20 years for finally came out — but … Continue reading
Episode 110: Plates in the Pool Table
This episode: we attempt, for the first time in ages, to do an episode without segments! That’s right, prepare yourselves for the most loosely organized talk we’ve put on an episode since… I can’t even remember. Superior Spider-Man! The Beverly Hills Cop movies! Downton Abbey at some point that I don’t really recall only 3 days later! Also all … Continue reading
Obligatory Best of 2012 Post
Michael here. So, 2012 was a year many new obsessions began for me. This post is going to talk about four things I read, watched and played in 2012. Some of these things were not created in 2012, but this is when I discovered them. What you’re getting here is a slice of my year. … Continue reading
Episode 107: The Fantasy Novel Staycation
So The Hobbit is finally here and most of us managed to watch it! Get ready to hear us go on at length about the wonders contained within the film, from whether or not Radaghast had too much poop in his hair all the way to how Bifur’s design ended up having an axe permanently in his … Continue reading
The Wheel Weaves as The Wheel Wills … The Wheel of Time Part 0
Presented by Michael In 1990, The Eye of the World was published by an author named Robert Jordan (actually James Oliver Rigney, Jr.). I read it in 1994, buying it alongside The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn. I was hooked. I soon bought the remaining books (The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, and Lord of Chaos), … Continue reading
BookBusters 5 x 5 What’choo Gonna Read?
If there’s something strange/That you want to Read/Who you gonna call?/BOOKBUSTERS! Michael, here. With another installment of 5 x 5. This time, we’re talking opera. No, wait. Books. Right. Books. That’s what we’re talking about. So, as with my previous 5 x 5, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about 5 books that I’m … Continue reading
Planned Banter 