I’ve mentioned it in interviews, but I’m a huge fan of When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide. Apparently, judging from the lyrics, so is Iron Maiden. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjhkEmEmUI&w=560&h=315] If there’s ever an old sci-fi movie I want to see redone with modern technology, it’s this one. But only if they get someone competent to […]
B-Sides and Outtakes: Armageddon Dawn Part VI
Chapter 3 Pacific Ocean 1200 Kansas Time The first hostile alien vessel to enter Earth’s atmosphere, a Griffin-class assault lander, penetrated the atmosphere at a point two hundred miles to the west of the International Date Line. As a result, the official Day the Earth ended would be 26 June, 2011. Hitting the […]
Metal Monday–Concerts
So last Tuesday (18 October), Korn and Breaking Benjamin came to town. I took the better half to the concert for her birthday. Sound problems were all over the place at the Kansas Expocentre, to the point we couldn’t understand the first act (Silver Snakes) over their drums, could only understand the plethora of […]
B-Sides and Outtakes "Armageddon Dawn"–Part V
Things are tracking along nicely with the end of the world. By this point if you’re dropping in with no background, strongly suggest you start back here . Welcome all TOPCON and Time Eddy visitors–hope that you enjoy your visit! Fort Riley, Kansas 1000 Local (1100 Eastern) Putting off their characteristic whine, the last […]
B-Sides and Outtakes– "Armageddon Dawn"–Part IV
If you haven’t been following the story–long story short, the crap has hit the fan for Humanity. Angry aliens are coming to basically turn Earth into one big butcher shop. You can pick up the first part of the story here. This Part begins Chapter 2. So, without further ado… Chapter 2: Recriminations and Reckonings […]
Metal Monday–When Terror Struck the Land
Gettysburg. The name alone brings forth historical visions of desperate fights in wheat fields, bodies heaped before stone walls, and that poor bastard Pickett writing an after action report so incendiary in its rhetoric that General Lee literally had it burned. Whether one thinks that the Union was saved on this day or that Northern […]
B-Sides and Outtakes– "Armageddon Dawn"–Part III
Part III continues. If you’ve just started following this blog, Part I can be found here. Weather Mountain, VA 0800 Local (0700 Central) “Sir, they’re all here,” Star-Colonel Sir Conrad Bradstock, Knight of the Bath to Queen Elizabeth I, said quietly. The Englishman was massive, especially when one considered the average height of men in […]
Metal Monday–Game of Thrones Edition
I love YouTube. You can find all sorts of great stuff there. Like, say, metal covers of songs you can identify with…like The Rains of Castamere. (“Wait…wait…why do you identify with the Rains of Castamere?” “Because when someone sends you to crush a rebellion, you crush the rebellion.”) Sometimes one just has to be in […]
B-Sides and Outtakes– "Armageddon Dawn"–Part II
Continuing on with Chapter 1… Fort Riley, Kansas 0625 Local (0725 Eastern) “Jack, what the fuck is going on?” Captain Jason Mitchell, CO of A/2-70th Armored Battalion (FCS), West Point Class of ’03, asked worriedly. The two of them had been in the middle of a conversation when Jack had suddenly stopped and focused […]
B-Sides-Final Fight, Part II
The title pretty much says it all. I’ll do a little more commentary at the end. Let the dogfighting begin… Chapter 2 James saw two MiG-25 Foxbat fighters descend on a damaged B-52 like hyenas on a carcass and cursed, unable to do anything at the moment. One of the fighters pressed its firing run […]
Writing Tips–Some Research
As I mentioned in my writing tips, sometimes research can be a substitute for experience. Going even further, the best research in the world is that done by someone else. One quick way to save oneself a lot of diving and sorting of what sources work the best for you is to find a historiographical […]
Metal Monday–Hear Ye, My Words
So I found this song via an I-tunes recommendation. The album is pretty solid as well. I always see a lone rider approaching a temple at the intro, followed by a montage of him killing his way to the central chamber where he confronts an angry god. Yeah, I’m dark like that. Anyway, when I […]