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Reverb. Filters. Equalizers. Terms, as of two weeks ago, I had either never heard of or had the most abstractly basic understanding of. Now after playing with audio editing for two weeks? I’m still a…
Technically speaking, this is not “new” news. We have music going pretty much every evening as a backdrop to unwinding and getting ready for/eating dinner. What’s new is a return to music in a way…
**SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Disney’s 1994 animated The Lion King, as well as the 2024 live-action Mufasa. 🟪 🟪 🟪 I had a Lion-King weekend. Friday night, we watched the 30th anniversary…
When it comes to writing, I’m definitely a pantser. I suppose this tracks, since I’m also a TTRPG nerd, and the entire game is just responding to what the gamemaster says and hoping things work…
One of my most amusing memories of grad school comes from the semester Kevin Hearn, author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, was the guest speaker. Someone asked him if he read romance novels, to which…
I will confess that this post was mainly an engine to share a picture of water. I did not take this one—credit goes to http://www.goodfreephotos.com, but depending on which lake is in this photo, I…
Show of hands: Who else remembers when the 1997 Cinderella starring Brandy came out? *Glances around* ✋ Right, moving on. I did, indeed, see Brandy’s Cinderella when it came out and enjoyed it in the…
This post actually comes courtesy of an experience I had over the weekend that did not involve readers at all. Rather, it involved me interacting with a complete stranger in a way that felt very…
Sadly, no flux capacitors or DeLorean are involved. Rather, I experienced some time-travel watching a movie this weekend. Title is Aunt Mary, and it starred Jean Stapleton of All in the Family fame as an…
And so, I am reborn. Okay, not literally, but this week definitely feels like my life has shifted. When I pitched my Role-Playing Games for Professional Development webinar to the Editorial Freelancers Association back in…