by Cooper West | Jul 28, 2013 | Editorial, Writing
I’m riffing here about my writing career, which may not interest all of you but certainly is fascinating to me. 😉 What brings up the question of the subject, “What it means to be rich,” is the intersection of success, wealth, and being rich as...
by Cooper West | Jul 23, 2013 | Editorial
I’ve heard rumblings about how the UK plans to turn off internet porn in 2014 across my news networks, and finally read this New York Post article about it and…really? Of course the first point everyone makes is: Good luck. Because the dark net is...
by Cooper West | Jul 22, 2013 | Editorial
Every year I hope I’m financially well off enough to plan for San Diego Comic Con and/or Dragon*Con. Every year: nope. But I’ve got tumblr, and despite the issues with it for me as a marketing tool, it’s still the fandom platform of choice. And WOW!...
by Cooper West | Jul 21, 2013 | Editorial
Ahahahah, I love science! For instance, someone got funding and staff to do a survey that discovered the average length of the erect male penis. The article at Salon starts it off out of the gate: “Let’s just get this out of the way up front: 14.15 cm (or 5.57...
by Cooper West | Jul 16, 2013 | Editorial
So the wild rumor is that Marvel may be asking Joseph Gordon Levitt to play Dr. Strange. I realize this is the most unconfirmed of unconfirmed rumors, but boy howdy, do I hope it’s true! And for purely selfish reasons. See, I am actually the last person to...
by Cooper West | Jul 14, 2013 | Editorial, Writing
I was thinking about the A/B/O phenomenon in fanfic (also known as omega!verse fic), which dates back to a kink-meme prompt from 2011. It’s a pretty recent development, but it’s damn popular. At first I was not too interested in it (mpreg, which features...