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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Thaaaaaanks for saving me from those monstros angry blue laaaaadyyyyyyy ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ I know this is a beautiful, mysterious moment—feathered, living flowers of light descending like snowfall, etc.—but I gotta tell ya, I see a bunch of...
(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 work; please do not tell Seth, I am very scared of him) (R: Re-read; B:...
The bit where Jakevatar hops up and walks along that little rock-fence with no trouble despite being a new-bornéd peep is so good; he’s got a tail now! Of COURSE his balance is better! Siri, get me data on how many furries have inner-ear...
Antecedently: HEIST TO MEET YOU; Eric and other adoptables; wham-bam-bank-you-ma’am The manager pulls a piece and lets fly at Rigatoni, which, rude but understandable, for a 17; it meets (and therefore beats) his AC, and lands for 3...
Somehow, two sequels and seventeen years later, the consensus is apparently that these movies are good? I saw the first one at the pictures with my now-wife when it came out, and we agreed that it was extraordinarily beautiful but not so...
(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...