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2025

If You’re Not Going to Engage with the Problems, Shut Up About GenAIoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Defending Trash: In Defense of Mac & Me (1988)original ↗
4 Jul 2025
Book Review: Start Finishing by Charlie Gilkey (2022)original ↗
20 May 2025
A Reading List of Dystopian Fiction and Relevant Texts (Apropos of Nothing in Particular)original ↗
22 Jan 2025
Duke’s Best EDM Tracks of 2024original ↗
18 Jan 2025
2025: The Year of Somethingoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2025

2024

Duke’s Great Book Sale Cause He’s Moving…original ↗
3 Jun 2024

2023

CONvergence 2023 Schedule: Panels Ahoy!original ↗
5 Jul 2023
Writing The Histories (or, Crafting Totally Real Histories is Hard)original ↗
26 May 2023
When You Lose Your Social Media Manager (Or, Notes on SMMSs to Drown Your Tears In) — Updated (5/15/2023)original ↗
11 May 2023
Announcement: The Histories “I Need a New Computer” Write-a-Thonoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2023
A Definitive Absolutely Accurate Ranking of James Bond Theme Songsoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2023
Fan Fiction vs. Tie-In Fiction: A Frameworkoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2023
4 Things Twitter Could Do to Make Blue Worth Paying For (But Probably Won’t)original ↗
20 Feb 2023

2022

Chicon 8 / Worldcon 2022 Schedule!original ↗
27 Aug 2022
Pete’s Dragon and the Most Alarming World of Child Abduction…with Music!original ↗
13 Jun 2022
Sometimes “We Need a 2nd Season” Isn’t a Plan (or, How Jupiter’s Legacy Ruined a Good Thing)original ↗
6 Jun 2022
An Adventure in Style Over Substance: Snyder’s Army of the Dead (2021)original ↗
1 Jun 2022
Flights of Foundry Scheduleoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2022
Towards an SF Canon: Curiositiesoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2022
Why the SF Canon Doesn’t Existoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2022
The Unbearable Weight of Fantasy, Tolkien, and Race (or, Eh, Black Elves Are Fine)original ↗
16 Feb 2022
Not-So-Cancelled (or, Hey, We’re Still Talking About the Wrong Things)original ↗
13 Feb 2022
2022 Hugo Awards Reading List: What Should I Have Read? Tell Me!original ↗
18 Jan 2022
The Cruelty of School-tees: The Worst Witch and the Hogwarts Problemoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2022
2022 is Here (or, Hell, I Need a Different Year…)original ↗
2 Jan 2022

2021

My Worldcon 79 / DisCon III Scheduleoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2021
A New Joy Factory Monthly Podcast: Discussion w/ Alex Jennings on The Immortal Hulk!original ↗
29 Jul 2021
A New Joy Factory Monthly Podcast: Interview w/ Sarah Nicolas on Podcasting!original ↗
5 Jul 2021
How to Make Twitter Suck Lessoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
A New Joy Factory Monthly Podcast: Interview w/ The G on Synthwave and Wanderers!original ↗
28 Jun 2021
A New Joy Factory Monthly Episode is Here!original ↗
21 Jun 2021
10 Caribbean Books You Should Read At Least Onceoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2021
New Joy Factory Monthly Podcast: Every City Needs a Danny DeVito Penguin!original ↗
7 Jun 2021
The Joy Factory Weekly Newsletter! (New Issue Up)original ↗
3 Jun 2021
New Podcast: The Joy Factory Monthly!original ↗
3 Jun 2021
Brokeback Mountain (2005) and the Unbearable Violence of Gay Loveoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2021
Capricon 41: My Schedule (Panels, Live Podcasts, etc.)original ↗
3 Feb 2021
So Much For Rules: The Zany Sports Massacre of Space Jam (1996)original ↗
28 Jan 2021
Announcement: The Joy Factory is on Medium!original ↗
22 Jan 2021
Musicals Made 2020 Bearable; Long Live the Musicalsoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2021
Ape Lincoln: The Beauty and Terror of Planet of the Apes (2001)original ↗
16 Jan 2021
New Year’s Resolutions: No More Intentional Miseryoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

Holiday Miracles (or, How I Tried Something New and Learned to Enjoy Christmas Novels)original ↗
31 Dec 2020
Nostalgic Paris: Misery, Imagination, and Nostalgia in Midnight in Parisoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2020
The Joy Factory: A Project Primeroriginal ↗
19 Nov 2020
My Worldcon / ConZealand Scheduleoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2020
How to Be a Conservative Rabbit Tale: On Polly Horvath’s Mr. and Mrs. Bunny–Detectives Extraordinaireoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2020
Donald Trump is a Fascist, and It’s Time We Stop Pretending Otherwiseoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2020
“Protest. But Not Like That. Or Like That.”: U.S.-America’s Self-Imposed Riotsoriginal ↗
30 May 2020
The Lie of Resisting Arrestoriginal ↗
28 May 2020
“Finding Hope”: The History Reading Listoriginal ↗
27 May 2020
The AI Says It’s an Enemy: Relinquishing Control to the Machine in Yukikazeoriginal ↗
19 May 2020
The Bookening: New Reads in the Pyramid of Plentyoriginal ↗
16 May 2020
It Didn’t Happen Like That: On the Dimensions of Historical Accuracyoriginal ↗
15 May 2020
Book Review: The Witches by Roald Dahloriginal ↗
14 May 2020
I Will Ignore Time: Long Distance Relationships in the Time of Coronaoriginal ↗
13 May 2020
A Tale of First Series: Heroism and Binaries in Record of Lodoss Waroriginal ↗
8 May 2020
Podcasting in the Time of Coronaoriginal ↗
7 May 2020
Project Announcement: Finding Hope in the Histories of the United Statesoriginal ↗
6 May 2020
Fragile and Varied Masculinities: Road Trip and the Odd World of the 2000soriginal ↗
5 May 2020
The A-Z Book Survey: Or, Now You’ll Know My Secretsoriginal ↗
4 May 2020
Why I Generally Dislike Ebooksoriginal ↗
3 May 2020
Port and Books: Dow’s 2011 Late Bottled Vintage Portooriginal ↗
2 May 2020
Welcome to Endor: A Forest Getaway You Won’t Forgetoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2020
The Bookening: New Reads in the Abode of Awesomesauceoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2020
Throwing Grendel to the Vikings: Reassessing a 90s Adaptationoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2020
The Bookening: New (At Bay Press) Reads in the Region of Rumblingsoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2020
28 Days Later and the Delicious Comfort of Disasteroriginal ↗
11 Apr 2020
The Bookening: New Reads in the Palace of Pandemicsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2020
Dreaming of Uncle Hugo’soriginal ↗
9 Apr 2020
The Bookening: New Reads in the Chamber of Serpentsoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2020
The Arts are the Glue that Holds Civilization Togetheroriginal ↗
8 Apr 2020
The Blog Challenge Project Begins!original ↗
5 Apr 2020
I Have A Mouth, and I Want to Screamoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2020
A Not Quite History: The Great Courses’ “The History of Ancient Egypt”original ↗
2 Apr 2020
Academia During a Pandemic: Hunker Down Philosophy 3Aoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2020
Joy to End Your Eveningoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2020
Unsolicited Class Board from Before the Pandemicoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2020
Struggles in Heroism: On the (New) Star Wars Expanded Universeoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2020
A Day Lost in Exhaustionoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2020
Today is Not a Productive Dayoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2020
Considering Exotic Animals and the Tiger Kingoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2020
One More Week!original ↗
24 Mar 2020
Pondering the Editors Behind Our Fictionoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2020
Academia During a Pandemic: Hunker Down Philosophy 2Aoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2020
The Science Fiction Research I Didn’t Present This Weekendoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2020
Snakes in SF/F/H (Or, Drumming Up Fear from Ignorance)original ↗
19 Mar 2020
Online Coursework, Here We Come!original ↗
18 Mar 2020
The Space Opera Project Continues!original ↗
17 Mar 2020
Academia During a Pandemic: Hunker Down Philosophy 1Boriginal ↗
16 Mar 2020
Academia During a Pandemic: Hunker Down Philosophy 1Aoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2020
Thoughts on Living in Small Towns (Or, Life in Forgotten America)original ↗
14 Mar 2020
Film Challenge: 10 Underrated SF/F Films (1999-2019)original ↗
3 Mar 2020

2019

Picture Sunday: Poppies All the Way Downoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2019
On Space Opera: The Heart of Genre, Forgotten by Scholarsoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2019
Quickly Ending the Evening with a Picture of a Vieworiginal ↗
7 Sept 2019
Five Faves: SF/F/M Movies or Shows I Love Because of My Grandmaoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2019
Thoughts on Wikis, Responsibility, and Cultural Shiftsoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2019
Five Faves: Snakes!original ↗
3 Sept 2019
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