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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(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:...
Listen: we all loved Bottlebright and Krag, and The Jade Regent was a blast; unfortunately, it was also a Pathfinder 1e adventure path and William had to do a LOT of shoe-leather behind the scenes to convert it all1 to 2e so it would...
(Screening courtesy of my in-laws and a generous Christmastime AMC gift-card) I just got home! At one point on the drive I found myself start-stopping right by the place I get my cans recycled, caught between some paramedics attending to...
Mrs. Columbo—she who is my tiny wife1—is the funniest, smartest, quickest person I’ve ever met; she says wonderful, hilarious, ridiculous, adorable things on a daily basis, and as part of a secret resolution I spent 2025 recording them...
I could’ve been titling these with that this whole time! Dang! An entire metric dang! Okay, so my boss and I had our weekly check-in meeting; without ego, I’m good at my job, so there isn’t really a lot to go over job-wise, and...
I came to work this morning to learn that a coworker—almost a decade younger than I am—had lost her father over the weekend out of nowhere; combine that with ICE murdering and kidnapping people amidst the fascist overthrow of my country,...
AND MY WORDS CANNOT DO IT JUSTICE; LOOK AT THIS ADORABLE SHIT: Thinking tiny wooden thoughts, with a touch of tiny class He’s got a little box full of tiny magnetic face-ingredients! WHAT A GOOFBALL, AS IN SEEN IN THIS CANDID SNAPSHOT I...
YES HELLO I CANNOT STOP FUCKING SNEEZING LONG ENOUGH TO DO A PROPER BLOG TODAY. Okay uh, here’s a thing: I was invited to hang out with some pals of one of my pals! They have a loose, drop-in-drop-out board game night most Saturdays, and...
ONE DANG TIME, William and I arrived on Discord for game night, only to discover that Isaac had a bold, frightening, and intriguing suggestion: We play a game called For The Queen, essentially a guided role-playing and collaborative...
GOOD FRIGGIN’ EVENING, today I would like to talk about twice times of things: My job and what the hell is happening there Fairly confident speculation regarding a book’s international cover-design THIS HAS BEEN: THE TABLE OF...
I am today filled with DEADLIEST ENVY, specifically of Mrs. Columbo, She Who Is My Tiny Wife, against whom I have no defense and who, by law, is entitled to a bite of whatever I’m having1. For today she enjoyed a privilege known to few,...
Okay gang listen I am a very casual birder: I’ve got a Sibley’s and a NatGeo, a pair of extremely decent store-shelf-grade binoculars, and I don’t generally go anywhere beyond a 3-mile walking-radius around my human home; y’ain’t findin’...
Antecedently: Holy water cannot help you now; #attemptacle; Isaac inflicts 6d12 guilt damage, keep the fucking change Just a reminder: An asshole would like to fight us! No wait he wants us to join him, also like an asshole would do....
2026 has announced its arrival with an UNPRECEDENTED birding-boom; in addition to the visit from a Guardian of Ga’Hoole on the first of the year, yesterday brought me this brand-new homie! This handsome little weirdo with the Poirot...
Look if I’m gonna do a post every day we’re gonna need to get a little more liberal about what constitutes ‘effort’ and ‘content’ and ‘language’. It’s been my custom since about 2010 to keep a running list of everything I read; in...