The New Dark Comedy Animated Series from the Creators of Norsemen — Netflix recently launched a new dark comedy animated series, Captain Fall. I was thrilled to learn that the series had been written by Norwegians Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen, the delightfully twisted minds behind another Netflix dark comedy series, Norsemen. …

Hellboy II and Irish Mythology — Thirteen years after the film Hellboy II: The Golden Army was released, it still boasts the best sword fight in cinematic history — Prince Nuada dispatching ten royal guardsmen in the Elven throne room. Fight me. In my early viewings, I recognized some of the references to Irish mythology. …

Those of you who follow me on social media know that I like to make humorous responses to other people’s posts. Wisecracking comes to me spontaneously. But to draft this post, I had to use the analytical side of my brain. So, fair warning: I’m setting your expectations right now…

Many people are familiar with the theory Six Degrees of Separation or the related game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea is that each person is separated from any other person in the world by no more than 6 hops*. Since Emil Johansson and I are J.R.R. Tolkien fanatics…

How do you win a marathon? You run really fast for 26.2 miles without stopping. Like winning a marathon, writing is easy to describe, but hard to execute. Writing a good book is a magical art that blends creating interesting characters, placing them in intriguing settings, and weaving an engaging…