This post will be talking about Game of Thrones, and therefore if you are not up to date on the show — spoilers abound.
Spoiler alert, I’ll be talking about the weather.
Winter Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Posted: December 22, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Others, White Walkers, Winter Is Coming
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The Dead. They’re Evil. And They Sing.
Posted: December 16, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Arts, Evil Dead, MusicTags: Army of Darkness, Ash vs Evil Dead, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Evil Dead the Musical, Harry Potter
Lisa (my wife) and I have a friend named Heather who is very talented. She can dance, she can sing. She acts. Heather’s cool.
Back in 2011 (don’t hold me to that year, but I’m pretty sure) Heather told us some exciting news. She had a part in a local production of a musical we might be interested in seeing.
Evil Dead the Musical.
Kingslayers in the War of the Five Kings. Way More than Five.
Posted: December 8, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, TVTags: Brienne of Tarth, Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones, Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow, Khal Drogo, Kingslayer, Stannis Baratheon, War of the Five Kings
This post will be discussing plot points and character backgrounds from HBO’s excellent series, Game of Thrones. Therefore, if you’re not caught up on the show (or haven’t read the books) and you read this and get spoiled, you have no one to blame but yourselves. So there.
Blame, blame. Everyone’s so quick to assign blame. Like me! I do that!
Season Five wrapped up with the death of Stannis Baratheon, the last of the original royals in the War of the Five Kings.
Army of Darkness: the Smoking Gun
Posted: December 2, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Evil Dead, Movie Review, Opinion, TVTags: Army of Darkness, Ash vs Evil Dead, Evil Dead, The Walking Dead
No, I’m not talking about Ash Williams’ BOOM-STICK. I’m talking about something else.
The Deadites are pretty creepy in the Evil Dead movies. Once summoned, they can possess people (usually the dead) to become terrifying and hard-to-kill creatures who enjoy not only torturing the living, but creating even more Deadites.
But after they’ve been summoned.
November 2015 #MicroStory Collection
Posted: December 1, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Flash Fiction, WritingTags: Flash Fiction, MicroStories, MicroStory, Pat Wrote This, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Twitter, Writing
It’s December, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all the MicroStories I’d tweeted during the month of November.
As a reminder, these represent story-essences composed using no more than 129 characters (so I could tweet them with the hashtag #MicroStory.)
Usually, I only tweet Science Fiction and Fantasy #MicroStories. November was pretty much no exception. (Except for one very-micro story I wrote.)
For really great #MicroStory action, please follow @MicroSFF, the Twitter account that inspired me to participate in this minimalist writing exercise. That feed puts out great science fiction and fantasy MicroStories all the time.
The Living Deadites
Posted: November 29, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Ash vs Evil Dead, Deadites, Evil Dead, Game of Thrones
Hey, spoilers for the first five episodes of Ash vs Evil Dead, and the movies that have inspired the show. You’ve been warned.
SPOILERS!
I’ve been supplementing my viewing of the Starz Network‘s excellent Ash vs Evil Dead show by listening to the entertaining Ash vs Evil Dead vs Bubba vs Catfish podcast, where Bubba and Catfish (they have real names, allegedly) recap and discuss the gonzo-gory show.
Each episode of the podcast features a special Bubba vs Catfish segment where a proposition relating to the show is debated. Each of the hosts will present their case, for or against the proposition, with the loyal listeners voting (typically via Twitter) to settle the argument.
Filling the Joffrey-Sized Hole
Posted: November 24, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Game of Thrones, Opinion, TVTags: Game of Thrones, Joffrey Baratheon, Ramsay Bolton, Ramsay Snow
This post will be discussing elements from HBO’s Game of Thrones. Should you not be caught up with the show, I can’t be held responsible for spoilers if you keep reading.
I Am The King! And I’ll do as I like. Including holding the blogger responsible for spoilers!
King Joffrey Baratheon, first of his name, king of the First Men, and the Andals [, and the Rhoynar -this always gets dropped on the show], a name that will live in Game of Thrones infamy.
Evil Dead II: Doing Double Duty
Posted: November 22, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Evil Dead, Movie Review, Opinion, TVTags: Army of Darkness, Ash vs Evil Dead, Evil Dead, Lord of the Rings
I recently made a post about the Starz show Ash vs Evil Dead, which furthers the adventures of Ashley J. Williams, reluctant Deadite-fighter from the Evil Dead movies. In that post, I mentioned that the only movie necessary to enjoy the television show would be 1987’s Evil Dead II.
I had wanted to say more about that, as well as the tricky continuity between Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, and Evil Dead III (okay, it’s actually known as Army of Darkness. But I like calling it Evil Dead III. I also like the alternative also-not-the-title Medieval Dead.)
Ash vs Evil Dead: Ignorance is Bliss
Posted: November 21, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Evil Dead, Opinion, Podcasts, TVTags: Army of Darkness, Ash vs Evil Dead, Evil Dead, Lost
Weed Plus Weird? Not Good.
Currently on the Starz network, Saturday night programming delightfully has Ash vs Evil Dead: the charming tale of a somewhat unambitious and bumbling character who happens to have some problems. Many of those problems are related to his personality, but the major one would be his being the target of terrifying forces of evil.
That Zod-Damned Man of Steel…
Posted: November 18, 2015 by patricksponaugle in Comics, Movie Review, OpinionTags: Comics, Kneel Before Zod, Krypton, Man of Steel, Superman, Zod
In case you’re behind in your viewing of movies featuring the Last Son of Krypton, this post will contain some spoilers. If spoilers are your kryptonite, get behind a lead wall now! (Or don’t read…)
Zod: Spoiler Vision… ACTIVATE!
Superman: Don’t look, Zod! Great Scott, don’t loooooook!!!!!
The movie I’m going to talk about has been out for ages, so the speed (and timeliness) of my reviews clearly aren’t faster than a speeding bullet. But since next year will be featuring a new Superman movie (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) it’s not really a bad time to talk about that Zod-murdering Superman.
I Can't Possibly Be Wrong All the Time 