Monthly Archives: June 2009

On Detective Stories, or A Review of The Manual of Detection

There are several writers that I mention more than is probably healthy. James P Blaylock and Tim Powers, as mentors of mine, get a lot of publicity (if you can call it that…you can’t) around the ol’ NR. Neil Gaiman, … Continue reading

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Random Acts of Insightfullness #3 – SG Browne

Hey there faithful Normalinauts. Remember when I said I’d have another interview…it was like a year ago…well, that one fell through. It only took me this long to get another one set up, recorded, and ready for posting. See how … Continue reading

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A Scathing Review This is Not: Pixar’s Up

Saturday night we loaded up the kids in the new car (did I mention we got a new car?) and headed off to the local drive in. The drive in affords many pluses, the kids are both free, adults are … Continue reading

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MTV Movie Awards Bites

Hey everyone, Stoker again. So here’s the deal, I tuned into the last half hour of the MTV movie awards last night. I tend to watch this show just for the fun of it but the last couple of years … Continue reading

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