The Blog That Time Forgot

Dreadfully sorry for the lack of updates: a perfect storm of internet, technological, organizational and software troubles have conspired...

It was full of links, citations, quotes, you name it. I was very proud. I mistyped. Oh dear, I'll have to undo that: CTRL-Z, my fri...

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #16 Brian Wood (W), Davide Gianfelice (A), Dave Stewart (C), and Massimo Carnevale (Cover) On sale May 15 FC, 32 ...

It's a common argument that I see: science fiction is intellectual, productive, inspirational, innovative, optimistic, and emphasises ev...

What Conan Fans and People Who Know How To Use The Internet Know 1932        December       "The Phoenix on the Sword" (Weird Tal...

Ah, Cracked.  Sometimes you provide some nice information that the inattentive masses on the internet wouldn't otherwise be aware of, an...

In the June 2011 issue of Maxim magazine, there is a brief "fast facts" snippet about Conan and Robert E. Howard. I have to parent...

Yesterday, I decided to spend time with my mother.  Helping her out with housework, hauling bags and furniture around, chatting, that sort o...

I may have come under fire for wasting everyone's time yesterday, but hopefully this'll be more worthwhile. Unlike Arthur Knowledg...

So. Huh. How can a film's main character have no character development when the film is a Bildungsroman , which is - practically by...

What we have here is a pornographic parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation . What we also have here is one of the most logic-defying ...

This came completely out of left field . When it comes to antagonists, let's just say that if you have ever played a game about Conan...

I don't think I can really talk about the new Conan teaser in any more fairness - or, rather, extreme generosity - than I did on Conan...

I'm not going to say I told you so, mostly because I... didn't tell you so, and it would be fallacious of me to claim otherwise. H...

I feel I may as well talk about the other big Tolkien story this week, get it out of my system. Steve Hillard's Mirkwood: A Novel Abo...

Sheer, unmitigated, unadulterated, unpossible brilliance .

Well, this is interesting .  I've posted my response, but as always, I'll provide it here in case Blogger eats it. The problem wit...

Man, I am incredibly torn here . Saoirse Ronan in The Hobbit , likely as Itaril. On the one hand, to Hades with Itaril. I already comment...

For seven long, excruciating years, we've waited for Schwarzenegger, now free of his Governor duties, to come back to the world of actio...

What, me evil? I'm not kidding, this is actually an argument put forward by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz .  One could argue that, since it...