I will be at Comicpalooza this weekend, May 22-25. This is the biggest convention I’ve ever been to and I’m looking forward to it. A media con is a vastly different creature from a literary convention, and I am preparing myself to be overwhelmed. I was interviewed by AFK for the convention, which you can find here: AFK Show Austin: Interview with Patrice Sarath My schedule for Comicpalooza is as follows: Saturday: 2:30-3:30 Tips for Read more…
Daredevil, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and The Americans have nothing in common except: I’m watching them On Netflix or Amazon They each have a different way to tell a story and I’m learning from each one, including what works and what doesn’t. What doesn’t work, for me at least, is Daredevil. It started strong, we got the origin story, and then it went into progressively darker comic book violence, culminating in an episode of such Read more…
Okay, Hillary has announced. The election season has officially begun, and it’s going to be a long hard slog, so here’s a reminder about the newsworthiness of the variety of news organizations that are likely to be hitting your Facebook feed for the next several hundred months, or however long it’s going to feel. Seriously, it’s like the Earth’s orbit around the Sun takes a few loop-de-loops. Here are the easy ones: Fox News and Read more…