Jon Snow from Game of Thrones

Series Review: Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 3 – WITH SPOILERS

You know the drill – if you haven’t watched the episode of Game of Thrones, don’t read this review unless you are a masochist. Episode 3 begins with a bang – Jon Snow is alive and breathing, though barely, and looks like a colt trying to remember how to walk. He is immediately brought out […]

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Series: Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 1 Review WITH SPOILERS

  Last night at 9 pm EST Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 1 premiered on HBO, and by morning, Kenyans all over the interwebs were already spoiling it. I’m joining that legion but with a spoiler alert, which is what civil humans do. A few things that were left hanging from the close of […]

It’s hard out here for a pimp.

Being a self published author is a bit like being a whore. You work long, hard nights, sometimes unprotected (from the distraction of social media). You wonder when the disease of writer’s block will hit you, if it hasn’t already, stifling any other books you may or may not have left in you – you […]

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Film: The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is an exquisitely visual, hopeful movie that made me cry at least thrice. I’m a Disney stan as is, and I am so pleased, in spite of Walt Disney (ha!) and his dubious prejudices, that not only have they managed to make fantastic movies for my childhood, but also for my (pseudo) […]

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Film: Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice

Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice wasn’t absolute shite. I don’t know if that’s what DC/Marvel fans want to hear, but it is what it is. In fact, on an overall rating, I’d give it about a 6, 6 and a half out of 10. It inspired in me the same feeling Spectre did last […]

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maybe

Maybe if I stay very, very still, then the words you’re throwing at me won’t hurt me and I won’t shatter into a zillion pieces because I’m holding myself together. And maybe if I shut my eyes tight enough I won’t see the barbs coming and they won’t catch me and I won’t feel them […]