This is a list of archived entries published in the Writing category.
Looking at that screenshot, I’m suddenly reminded of the first videogame I remember playing, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for Intellivision. Man, videogames have come a long way in a mere quarter-century. But then, I suppose it only took us twice that time to go from flying the first plane to landing on the moon.
Incidentally, that [...]
I was introduced to Godzilla by my cousin Ed, who passed down to me his Shogun Warriors Godzilla toy as well as his love of WLVI 56’s Creature Double Feature. I took to the big green lizard like a fish to water–something about the fire-breathing, skyscraper-sized beast spoke to my young soul. I won’t bother [...]
I wrote this piece a few months ago, when I was still thinking I could sit through all the Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween movies. It turned out I couldn’t, but I did manage to write two reviews before I gave up. Here’s the first one.
Hello and welcome. I’m Jander Rothberg.
And [...]
ToyFare is doing a “Halo Week” on their website, primarily by posting my article from the magazine piecemeal.
Bungie Jump (interview with Bungie, makers of Halo 3)
Re-Spawn (interview with Todd McFarlane, who’s making the toy line)
Just for Clix (article on Halo Actionclix)
Gear of War (Halo-themed Xbox accessories)
Collecting Spree (everything else)
Big Screen Chief (update on the status [...]
Here’s an interesting tidbit. Last night I watched The Call of Cthulhu, a short independent film by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. The concept was to adapt Lovecraft’s famous short story in the style of the era in which it was written–that is, a 1920s silent movie.
I actually requested Netflix add the title to their [...]
Watched a few movies over the weekend. I don’t really feel like doing individual reviews of any of them, so here are my thoughts based on a five-star rating system:
Masters of Horror: Stuart Gordon’s Dreams in the Witch House
Director Stuart Gordon is the only commercial filmmaker to have made a concerted effort to bring H.P. [...]
Yesterday I blasted through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to finally put an end to the constant shushing I’ve had to do to people who’ve already finished it. (Ed has already written on the phenomenon of HP speed-reading, and I posted my thoughts over there.)
I read the first three Harry Potter books back in [...]
I don’t remember the first time I saw Die Hard. I do know I loved the movie as a kid, which was one of the great action films of my youth alongside The Terminator and T2, Predator, Aliens and Robocop (though I saw most of these as edited network television versions, rather than the R-rated [...]
Nearly a week into the new design and I’ve put up a single post. Tch—typical.
I’ve decided once I’m done with the editing, I’ll post The Wanderer here on the website. There are a few good reasons for this. One, it’s a novella, which is a notoriously difficult genre to sell. Second, it’s a fairly straightforward [...]
Melancholia I by Albrecht Dürer.
I’m currently stalled out on a story. I’m writing a scene where two soldiers—well, space marines—are knowingly walking into the lion’s den.
Sometimes in the course of writing a story you just get stopped cold. It’s not writer’s block per se; in this case, I just don’t want to describe their actual [...]