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I am a geologist by trade and write fiction as well. I've been working on my first novel and I set this up to provide links to some blog posts and short fiction I've written.
Every time I hear of a new movie remake being announced, I always think 'why?' The answer, inevitably, is usually money and the results, just as inevitably, are usually terrible.
My son's voice is punctuated by his stamping feet. "I. Want. Grilled. Cheese!" I ignore him and carefully cut the fish into little cubes. Grilled cheese is my go-to meal for the kids. I feel guilty every time I peel the wrapper from the orange squares that are closer to plastic than they are to food.
Despite the hate, this is one of the best movies of it's time-here's why. In the Just Blaze episode of the FanBrosShow podcast, Benhameen mentioned that he finally saw Big Trouble in Little China and he thought it was "terrible".
An excerpt of my novel was published in Issue 4 of Burner Magazine and begins of page 64.
"Burga!" The sergeant was screaming. I bolted up out of my cot, ran out of the tent and stood at attention. The sergeant stared hard at me, twisting his red, handlebar mustache between his fingers. "What's the leave request for, again?" "I need to go home to Toronto for an interview for my university admission."
David Burga takes Lawrence Hill's second writing challenge with a story of relationships gone wrong. "How many times are you going to try that?" I stared at the red 'Not Delivered' message on my phone. "Until my text goes out." "Good luck with that.
Two years ago I was having drinks with a childhood friend and he told me the premise of the new video game he was working on - characters from famous fairy tales were alive and well and living in Fabletown, a community inside New York city, exiled from the Homelands.
I recently had an argument with my son about which was the superior Spider-Man theme song, the original 1967 version (the same show that Junot Diaz said turned him into a FanBro back in the Dominican Republic at 6 years old), or the theme song for the 2008 incarnation, The Spectacular Spider-Man .
Farmer Vision Media, a collective of young Canadian filmmakers, recently released the trailer for their upcoming webseries, The Sisters of Mercy. The group made a conscious decision to have their projects reflect the ethnic diversity seen in Toronto, where the series is filmed.
Chronologically the earliest story in Junot Diaz's This is How You Lose Her, "Invierno" tells the story of Yunior's immigration to New Jersey from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. 'Invierno' means 'winter' in Spanish, and when Yunior and Rafa are finally brought to America with their mother they are reunited with the father they never...
"The Cheater's Guide to Love" is the final story, both chronologically and physically, in Junot Diaz's stellar collection of short stories, This Is How You Lose Her. We find Díaz's observant and introspective, tough but nerdy protagonist Yunior an older man--a tenured college professor--but not a much wiser one.