Blog Feed: Spiral Reverie

Two Words on Bullying

Published on 2013-03-19 00:59:00

Oh hey, it's 2013 now, isn't it? And I haven't posted anything here for you guys since last November. Obama was rightly reelected, of course, but predictably, we've only seen the usual disappointment from the government since. That's a matter for ano

Election 2012: The Wealthy are Not Entitled to Their Delusions

Published on 2012-11-06 17:32:00

Here we are at last, Election Day 2012. Four years ago today, we made history by electing Barack Obama to the office of president of the United States. It's been a bumpy four years since. After all, on inauguration day that following January, the Rep

Ghost Roast

Published on 2012-11-01 14:37:00

November 1st.It's too late for a Halloween story, you realize. It's the day after. It's too late.That's never stopped me before, you realize. If it's one thing Spiral Reverie readers love, it's waiting forever for posts that may or may not be excruci

E3 2012: Nintendo for Wii and U

Published on 2012-06-09 09:52:00

It's over. Go home.Hey, you've reached the last of the big E3 blog posts for this year! And this one's the shortest of the bunch! Because I decided to turn a bunch of relevant content into a later blog post for sometime in the coming weeks! Because sometimes I feel like showcasing that I understand the value of brevity despite my routinely choosing to neglect it! It's time for me to stop these exclamations, E3 is an annoying, draining thing to cover - especially on a dead-end little blog like th [..]

E3 2012: Microsoft and Sony Strangled

Published on 2012-06-08 20:53:00

More important than things that actually matter.So, I wrote earlier this week about how increasingly apparent it had become that Sony and Microsoft have no business being in the video game industry in the first place. They both went on to hold their respective E3 press conferences and ultimately only reinforced my statements, entirely as I expected. Even their intended 'big surprises' were the result of exceedingly poor planning and an utter lack of understanding of this industry, their place in [..]

Pre-E3 2012: Wii Need Nintendo

Published on 2012-06-04 14:51:00

No! No no no! Haven't they stopped this nonsense yet?Oh hey there, internet. Guess it's about time I showed up this year, isn't it? I've actually been working on an assortment of posts for your consideration and prompt disposal, but as usual, I've been so caught up in all sorts of writing - including the aforementioned posts - that E3 coverage ended up being my first 2012 posts this time. Yes, there's no excuse, but there's plenty of time for me to be charming and witty and horrifically grating [..]

The Tears of Caga Tió

Published on 2011-12-25 09:55:00

Holiday cheer meets confectionery defecation!It is Christmas day now, isn't it? And as usual, I'm exceedingly sleep deprived after staying up all night working on various things. You'll never find a healthier chap.At any rate, though I was tempted to do a Krampus story this year - there will be a Krampus story yet - this year, you get a bizarre little short for the Spanish crowd.Just earlier this month, the surreal, brilliant Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Christmas special introduced me to a [..]

The Cruelest Holiday Season

Published on 2011-12-24 17:50:00

Oh hey, it's already December. And not only December, but Christmas Eve. An exciting time of the year, if there ever was one. But arguably, all times in any and all years are both exciting and unexciting at once. Depends on where you are, who you're with, and countless other variables. Predicable opening paragraph, predictable opening paragraph filler. The opposite of exciting.And I haven't even remarked yet about how I still need to write here on a more regular basis. Good thing I just got that [..]

The House That Murder Built

Published on 2011-10-31 12:41:00

Oh, right. Halloween.Once again, I disappeared for over a month and a half. More blog posts are coming, but things are clogged up, and for reasons that are surprisingly reasonable for once. This time, anyway.But hey, I tossed something horribly spooky at you last year, so this year, you're getting a goofier, weirder Halloween short story again. And not very long, unfortunately. But then, short fiction is short fiction. In the least, though my short story output has been much slower this year, it [..]

A Funny Story About 9 and 11

Published on 2011-09-11 15:50:00

Hey! This is a no smoking city!Happy Terror Day, everybody! Now that we've hit the ten-year mark, I'd say it's about time we started commercializing this bad boy. Wouldn't you agree? This is America, there's MONEY TO BE MADE! We can turn this tragedy into treasure - and failing that, cold hard cash - or my name isn't Otis Bunkport Jr.! Which it isn't, mind you. But it might be someday, depending on the degree of violence with which people react to my completely tasteful picture caption over ther [..]

Lower Your Eyes to Die with the Sun

Published on 2011-06-30 09:42:00

Spent too much coming up with things to say in my next few blog posts - hence the delay. A comedy post, the big, horribly-belated-as-so-to-be-irrelevant Nintendo E3 blog post, and a post on the Operation Rainfall campaign for several great-looking Wi

E3 2011 Day One: A Wilting Industry

Published on 2011-06-06 22:38:00

Oh god, not this shit again.Oh hey, it's Electronics Entertainment Expo time again. Is the industry any healthier this year than it was last year? Not at all. Can you skip over this first post on the continually declining relevance of Sony and Micros

Back from the Rapture!

Published on 2011-06-06 19:01:00

This is NOT what it looks like.Hey guys! Long time no see! You won't believe where I've been the past few weeks! For once, I actually have a legitimate excuse for not updating.I know this is going to sound crazy, but the Rapture actually happened, gu

The Restaurant at the End of Remembrance

Published on 2011-05-11 18:50:00

Everything I write about lately is death related. These brief thoughts won't be any different. One of these days, I still need to write about JD Salinger's passing, and we lost him nearly a year and a half ago now. At any rate, moving on -10 years ag

Process Talk: Shoegaze Fantasy

Published on 2011-05-06 17:45:00

In recent posts, I've shared some of the music and imagery that inspires me just for a bit of a glimpse into my process - what gets the old neurons firing - when I'm writing. In fact, some of you may be sick of that by now. And if that's the case, yo

More Like Osama Bin Awkward Joke About Somebody Dying

Published on 2011-05-02 15:34:00

So, as you've all heard by now, Osama Bin Laden has kicked the proverbial bucket, bitten the proverbial dust, and tripped over the only-halfway-metaphorical toad. Not at all shockingly, theories that he had died years ago were proven untrue. Not quit

The Limits of Control

Published on 2011-05-01 15:56:00

You're overdue for some movie talk. I need a subject to blog about today. Two and two - let's go.This time, we're taking a look at a fantastic film that most critics and viewers have hated. That alone should tell you outright that I enjoyed it becaus

Even If You're Never Awake

Published on 2011-04-30 17:12:00

This post is pretty much a reconfiguration of something I've been meaning to post since late last September. As I keep up with the regular posts, I've been planning on expanding into more music and video posts, and I wanted to share this particularly

The Places We Leave Behind

Published on 2011-04-29 17:08:00

My current novel, Project Princess, begins in ruins. Not the ruins of some ancient civilization - 遺跡 【いせき】, iseki, or 'historic ruins/remains/relics' - but 廃虚 【はいきょ】, haikyo. The ruins of an abandoned building, or someth

A Few Words: Blathering Anew

Published on 2011-04-28 16:14:00

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.That's too many waits. Still, in usual form, I know what you, my phantom-like readers are thinking. You may be sick of the shtick, but as you know, we aren't all born clairvoyant - it'd be a shame to waste this tale

The Change You Hoped For

Published on 2011-04-27 16:32:00

Whoa, hey. What is all this?I don't like change.I know that's what you're all thinking right now. Also, "Why the hell haven't you caught up on replying to comments lately?" I'd give you an excuse for that, but it was recently run over a bus. Several

Hope Estranged

Published on 2011-03-11 17:29:00

Oh hey, I do have a blog, don't I?I've been much quieter than usual this year. I keep promising more content 'soon,' but then not delivering. It's surprising that all two and one-sixteenth of you checking this blog with any kind of regularity have ye

Pocket Warfare: 2011's New Generation of Portables

Published on 2011-01-27 15:04:00

Oh, hello there, internet! I almost didn't notice you there after spending too much staring at screens caused my eyes to atrophy and fall out. You know that thing they say about all your other senses strengthening in response to the loss of any indiv

Years Like Avalanches

Published on 2011-01-01 13:16:00

New Year's Day, 2011. The day that in a silent clamor, new words fell across the untrodden internet gravel of Spiral Reverie. For the first time in almost but not quite two months.Excuses were offered, manly tears left unshed. Minds like fuses were b

Conan First Show Liveblog - Team Coco on TBS!

Published on 2010-11-08 04:26:00

It's finally here, Team Coco fans, the day we've all been waiting for! After Late Night with Conan O'Brien's strong 16-year run from 1993 to 2009, NBC - now rightly less one Jeff Zucker - pretty much threw Conan under a bus with the tonight show to k

Midterm Madness: Pragmatic Progress versus Regressive Racket

Published on 2010-11-02 12:21:00

Yet another blog post from me. Either I'm on fire or there's been a lot worth actually blogging about - even with shorter posts - within a limited time frame as of late. At any rate, it's Election Day today! Always a worthwhile subject, especially in

What We Pretend to Be

Published on 2010-10-31 13:46:00

Halloween afternoon. I was going to have two stories up for you today, but I keep trying to push myself to get more up here than I reasonably can in a single twenty-four hour period. I'm delaying the late-September story into early November, after th

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Liveblog

Published on 2010-10-30 11:11:00

About a month or so again - perhaps a month and a half - Jon Stewart began teasing an upcoming announcement on the Daily Show. Stephen Colbert, after noting demand for a "Restoring Truthiness" rally in response to terrible Fox News pundit Glenn Beck'

TV Season 2010-2011: The Remote is My Only Friend

Published on 2010-10-27 13:51:00

Autumn 2010. Vibrant colors explode through the leaves in profusion as the northern hemisphere begins its annual descent into the grave. But what's really important here is that there's new things to watch on that crazy static-laden moving picture bo

Getting Back the Respect We had When We Were 7

Published on 2010-10-15 08:51:00

Oh hey, when I did that Derrick Comedy post back in May, I did say I was looking forward to doing a review post on Mystery Team soon, didn't I? The movie did hit DVD nearly five months ago, after all.Well, not everything in life works out as planned,

(Almost) Conaw Time! (Almost) Time for Conaw!

Published on 2010-10-08 12:24:00

This is it, fellow Team Coco members. One month from tonight, Conan's new TBS series will debut at long last. (At 11 PM EST, going up against the Daily Show and Colbert Report.)The other month, Conan finally released a video revealing the new show's

Go Ahead and Try Not to Drown

Published on 2010-09-22 11:07:00

Hey, what is this? Is it - is it a post of some kind? (Come on, man. What are you thinking?)Mid-September's kind of crashed down on us, hasn't it? Crashed down like what, you ask? Silly readers, now that I've returned from my unannounced furlough, it