Novel Ideas

One could say the greatest challenge in life is to walk a road. Down and much further ahead, there is a horizon that supersedes our vision of life and our choices in love, in life, and in safety. We straddle a world of...

It's been a minute since I've gotten emotional and even more so talking about how an album has allowed me to reflect on life and Ryan Beatty's album did that for me. Life is full of contradictions and you must still...

Plagues are notoriously difficult to manage. Could you imagine trying to exterminate a bunch of 5-foot tall gut-roaches? How about solving the case of a spreading cough that gives one the supernatural ability to break...

Happy 30th to me-and anyone else who is lucky to be born at this time. Summer is warm, alive, and provoking, touching all who rests underneath the sun at its peak until everything is laid bare. Perhaps that's why...

It's one thing to be gone; it's another to go hungry. Anything is possible if the ache and pang that touches your backside, or those around you, can be quelled for one everlasting moment. So if that means stealing...

For the next couple of weeks, it's everything gay, queer, and complicated. This episode features conversations about projection, childhood, and accepting the tides of change amidst mid-life crises as a 30-something...

Between everyone 15+ disappearing, not knowing where your family has gone, and trying to fight off a malicious influence corrupting the world around you for it's own benefit, it makes looking for a new job feel like a...

We've followed Josh and Sophie to the literal end of the Earth, or maybe the beginning depending on where you stand. Nicholas and Perenelle are one their final day of life trying to ensure that San Francisco is safe...

To become waerloga , a warlock, is to betray your word, name, and value as they once were for who you are now. Machiavelli and Billy the Kid can't see the destruction and chaos put upon humanity, Josh can no longer...

What is one to do when the world feels against you? Trusting someone who's tried time and again to kill you and your companions for the last week, or so that's Josh's lot in life. Nicholas has proven himself to be...

Standing in the shoes of Perenelle Flamel is difficult, least of all because she resides in the place of a High Priestess; enigmatic and self-possessed with great intuition matched by a repository of knowledge and skill...

Magicians serve as a bridge to the divine; firm conduits of learned knowledge that proves insightful and dangerous, mentors and guides to the uninducted, and Josh has yet to be Awakened. He's gullible and angry enough...

To be an alchemist is to understand what is fundamental about life: everything is subject to change. To initiate the twins into their destiny, it is functional that the truths of life are recognized. That danger is...

In today's bonus episode, I'm speaking on a spoiler-free review for the movie and its conversation about names and titles, my love for "Killing Eve" and the "Toy Story 5" trailer, and re-uploads for the "Secrets of the...

It's so hard to say goodbye when twenty things piss you off about the ending of a series. Me and Bobby's "Uncle" have beef much bigger than the literal protagonist and antagonist. It's wild. If y'all listen close...