J.T. McDaniel
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Writer, editor, actor, director, audiobook narrator, and senior sex symbol. No, really, I'm very hot. Stop laughing, dammit!
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Another World
The origins of the Gehunite civilization date back to the mid-1970s, when I wrote a massive swords and sorcery novel called Alura. I was dating a lady name Laura at the time, and she looked a bit like the semi-barbarian princess who starred in the book, so I named it after her. It had nothing to do with Supergirl's mother, though it wouldn't shock me if both originated in the same anagram.
By J.T. McDaniel8 years ago in Futurism
Not Like a Business
Leading up to the last election, a lot of people said things along the lines of, "Trump will be good because he's a businessman, not a politician, and he'll run the government like a business." Somehow, enough people were confused enough to think this was a good idea, and enough of them voted that way, so with the help of the winner-take-all electoral vote distribution in all but three states, Trump managed to win by the largest losing margin in American history. It was a big margin. Really big. And he lost by it, but the Electoral College turned that around and gave him the White House anyway.
By J.T. McDaniel8 years ago in The Swamp
Playwrights vs. Directors
I blame the cinema for one of the more annoying problems in live theater today. Films are created in a unique way. Someone writes a script and sells it to a producer. The producer turns the script over to a director, who hires the actors, and makes the film.
By J.T. McDaniel8 years ago in Geeks
Alas, Poor Claudius
At one point, Hamlet questions his stated mission, suspecting that his father's ghost, who has set him upon the road to revenge, may not be telling the truth. "The spirit that I have seen/ May be the devil; and the devil hath power/ To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps/ Out of my weakness and my melancholy,/ As he is very potent with such spirits,/ Abuses me to damn me." What if his uncle is innocent of murder? If Hamlet kills him, would he not then be guilty himself, and have condemned himself to hell?
By J.T. McDaniel8 years ago in Geeks
