by Cooper West | May 18, 2012 | Editorial
Hugo award winning author John Scalzi recently wrote a post titled Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, which pretty much blew up the Webz (at least in my corner of the world). Because of all the backlash he got over the post, he also posted a...
by Cooper West | May 15, 2012 | Editorial
If you aren’t a writer, you probably missed the guest post by Tom Schreck at Joe Konrath’s blog, A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. I think if you aren’t a writer, on the whole it might not interest you, but there is one section where Tom talks...
by Cooper West | May 12, 2012 | Review
Like pretty much the rest of the known galaxy, I really enjoyed The Avengers. It was note perfect, with great jokes and amazing fight scenes and well developed characters, something one does not usually say about a comic-book based movie. What I really appreciated...
by Cooper West | May 9, 2012 | Modus Operandi
So I’m off to see the Avengers in a few minutes. I’m more of DC girl (Wonder Woman!!!!) than Marvel one, so I’ve been kind of meh about the movie franchise. I enjoyed Iron Man I & II, but then, Robert Downey Jr. could read a car manual and...
by Cooper West | May 8, 2012 | Editorial
First, to clarify: I don’t draw much of a line between “pornography” and “erotica.” As far as I’m concerned they are both words that apply to representations of sex, whether visual or literary, crude or artistic, primal or romantic....