On this very special episode of First Chapters, Engineer Mike and Nina are joined in Gray Cat Studios by a very special guest, Dr. Richard Scott Nokes (aka Professor Awesome of Pop Medieval fame)! He’s here to get Nina through a classic work — just in time for the second season of a certain elf-y […]

Needs more Keanu.

WHO LET THEY GOONS OUT THAT HOUSE? (Engineer Mike, that’s who!) WHO OUT THERE TALKIN ALL THAT MOUTH? (That’s Nina.) With many apologies to Beyonce, this week they’re reading Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke. Digressions: Ghost tackling, Engineer Mike’s para-social relationships, academic flexing, Platonic pontificating, evoking the Satanic Verses to make a point, praising short books, […]

This ain't no rodeo. This ain't no country club, either.

It's truly about throuples.

Eat my unthinking depths.

It's all blood and guts, baby.

Technojargon meets sexual politics. Do not recommend.

This is what WE wanted.

This may or may not be Comrade Detective.