Uncreated Conscience

I am wondrously, gloriously tan, although not as tan as I have been on past Hawai’i vacations. Growing up in Los Angeles gives you a permanent semi-tan; living in New York makes you pale and pasty. I look better when I’ve got some colour in my skin, otherwise I am the exact shade of sour [...]

Greetings from the Westin Ka’anapali in Lahaina, Maui! My body is absolutely confused as to what time it is. My family and I flew into Kahului Airport last night around 4:30pm Hawai’i time, which meant it was 7:30pm in Los Angeles, and 10:30pm in New York. Coordinating daily phone calls with Bear was a bit [...]

So last Christmas I bought my brother UGLIES by Scott Westerfeld (which I don’t think he’s read) as a gift. I read it but never got around to getting my hands on the other books in the series. Yesterday (after a successful venture to H&M for two very cute retro swimsuits), I stopped by a [...]

I tried my best, I really did. But I simply cannot get past the “Note on the Text” pages of this book. I’ve written about sword-and-sorcery and the derivative nature of many high fantasy works, but never in my life have I seen something so blatantly obvious about its linguistic debt to Tolkien. The “Note [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to wash chlorine out of my hair. There are things I love about southern California: that I woke up yesterday to a chilly overcast morning, that by 10:00am it was warm enough to swim in my parents’ complex’s outdoor pool, and that it was cool enough all [...]