The Naming Way With Ol’ C.W.
The Naming Way With Ol’ C.W.
C.W. Hills
The Naming Way, is 50% media/culture thoughts, 25% essays and personal whatnot that I try to keep relatable, and 25% nonsense and good goofs. End of percents! ZERO MORE PERCENTS.
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SHE DESERVED IT, and had an amazing time! We got to hear all about it and catch up with her at D&D, where she was EXTREMELY NORMAL about America in comparison to Nippon, even moreso than her usual VERY REGULAR AND CHILL opinions about...
Jake, bud, I know there’s a lot of cultural context I’m missing here, but I don’t think “Please excuse my wife, she’s being emotional” is a good call in any culture ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ “We cannot let you bring your war here” is honestly a pretty...
Antecedently: Operation Let’s Steal A Guy; a new green homie appears; Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE! We are outside the home of threatened weirdo Vashon Gattlebee, whom we are here to extract for his own safety and whom Amy insists on...
“Flank out!” shut up, God the way these chuds act and talk just reminds me so much of the guys in high school who were obsessed with the military and Stargate and fuckin Tom Clancy video games, who clearly saw all of this violence not as...
KACHOW WHAT’S POPPIN’ FELLOW LOVERS AND FIGHTERS AND HOPE-CANDLE LIGHTERS, IT’S YA BOI OL’ C.W. BACK AT IT WITH THE BOOKNOTES, and you’d better believe we’re doing another Mary Roach so TUNE IN, BUCKLE UP, DROP OUT, AND EXPLODE. These...
Fair is fair, as much as I hate Quaritch and Quariitch in equal measure, the look on the latter’s big blue punim when he touched the arrows sticking out of his dead clone-dad’s skeleton-bones was an incredible moment on every artistic...
I. The Day The Bubbles Popped A year and more done passed since last I cracked a Diet Coke, and the time has now come to shuck my damn corncob free of the Dr. Pepper that took its place as if it were a different Doctor altogether,...
In this citizen’s opinion it’s…pretty gross that Jake makes his kid call him ‘sir’; my parents tried to foist that on me but didn’t start until I was WAY too old and it went poorly. I know he was military but like—how’s all that military...
No, I have not insinuated myself into a new show, creeping like predatory mold on an unwary Senator; The 1940s Radio Hour1 in 2014 was the last time I trod the boards and my tippy-tappers will not know their wooden kiss again until I can...
I have a bad habit, left over from when I had a website1 and aspirations to I don’t even know what kind of position in the media and writing landscape; I always think anydangthing I write has to be like Proper2, not just in Form but in...
Okay whole new movie, first things first, let’s check the extra featu—aw yiss, no Family-Friendly Version available this time, we’re gonna hear ALL the fish-cussin’, we had best prepare ourselves for an extended visit from the...
(Nota bene, each entry has a review using Seth’s proprietary three-point Good-OK-Bad scale, with emojis representative of something that stood out to me about the work1; please do not tell Seth, I am very scared of him) (R: Re-read; B:...
I am again caught in paradox, because I am OUTRAGED at Quaritch stabbing the murder panther with whom Neytiri had just made friends, it’s a real kick the dog moment; on the other hand, that was a sick-ass parry/counter-attack combo that...
All these people cheering when Quaritch talks about how they’re going to traumatize this entire species down to their core ancestral memories, like what do you all…want? Like is this—what do you think is HAPPENING here? Have you really...
Antecedently: Ashes to ashes, Dwarven inventors to goop; unionizing Gnolls and the unforeseeable consequences thereof; an old roommate from school drops by WE NOW REJOIN THIS POST-HEIST RECAP AND ANALYSIS SHOW ON AMC. Farfalle excuses...