Imagine you are good at chess. You have played it since you were a kid, and although you’re not going to win any grand championships, you have competed successfully before. Now imagine they change chess. […]
Author: R W
Rick Wayne is a cretinous mass who's dissected a cadaver, climbed the Great Wall, jumped from an airplane, designed sampling systems, swam naked in the Mediterranean, and felt the blast of a terrorist's bomb, although not in that order. When he's not vomiting words, he's planning his next adventure.
He can be found at RickWayne.com.
(Fiction) The Prestidigitator
When Ten Dollars was twelve, he went to see the Prestidigitator for the first time. His mother put him in the front seat of a Dodge Dart with no seatbelts and put his little brother […]
(Update) I’ve Got MOAR Big Balls
Several weeks ago, I shared a massive dump of what I call big balls, which seems to be a recent trend in fantastic art, and I speculated why that might be. Well, the trend does […]
(Sunday Thought) Illusions Are More Real Than Reality
We like illusions because they create a deeply subjective sense of incongruity. That is, they “break” our brains. In this case, the circles appear to be moving, but they also appear stationary, which creates a […]
(Art) The Savage Chaos of Bastien Lecouffe Deharme
Bastien Lecouffe Deharme has illustrated numerous games for some of the biggest names in role-playing, and I can see why. His dark goddesses rule over savage realms of blood and violence, where the cruel and […]
(Fiction) The Mandela Spheres
Some advanced readers were so excited about THE ZERO SIGNAL that they have nominated it for Best of the Year on Goodreads, where (at the time of writing) it is #2 on the list! Readers […]
(Sunday Thought) The Arrow of Reality
We are witnessing the reversal of an arrow. For all of human history, it was the physical world that impinged our minds. In the future, it is our minds that will impinge the physical world. […]
(Art) The Dark Gods of Andres Rios
Mexican artist Andres Rios sculpts dark gods, both old and new (including several Aztec deities). While some are divine, others are machine. All are tortured and immortal, their skulls bared or barely covered by masks, […]
