August 2025

I hosted July's IndieWeb blog carnival; for the subject, I chose "totems." Five drongos heeded my call. Thank you, one and all. I am dreadfully late to posting this roundup, but late beats never.

My Support Character - Albert James Moriarty

Sara shows us that a totem need not be physical. She has spent an enormous amount of time thinking about a particular anime character, and uses him as a point of reference to understand things going on in her head and in her life.

I have written 114 works [of fanfiction] spanning 189,837 words involving him.

When I analysed all my blog posts for a regex talk I was doing, he was the third most frequent 5-or-more letter word over all my blog posts spanning decade of my writing.

I adore the kooky monsters and Egg the alchemist who flings exploding gems. While the movie gains depth from Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) being a fallible hero, I think that gets stretched a little too far for the fight in Lo Pan's wedding chamber. Everyone drank Egg's potion before the fight. It enabled Wang Chi to fly around doing wuxia, going head-to-head with one of the thunder sorcerers. Yet Jack could knock himself out with a falling rock and couldn't push the armored guardian off himself? I'm quibbling, though. This is a good movie.