fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
Like a lot of my nerdy brethren, I am very excited about the announcement that Square Enix is going to remake Final Fantasy VII. The announcement, though, raises a lot of questions about execution for which there are not yet any readily available answers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ4_t_GqGAM In fairness, I should note that I've spent more [...]
I'm mad at myself about something that I missed. This post is my attempt to make up for it. Like a lot of people, I get a lot of emails. Like a lot of people, I forget about a lot of emails. So when I got an email from HeForShe - an organization fighting for [...]
Several years ago a lunatic named Felix Baumgartner rode a balloon into outer space and then jumped out of it and fell back to earth. By choice. Because why the hell not, I guess. Oh, and since we live in the future, the whole thing was broadcast live on the internet so that people from around [...]
As promised, I'm back. BQDC has a new look, a new publishing schedule (or lack thereof) and the same general sense of randomness that you've come to love. Let's see where this goes.
After a furiously productive six months with this site, I'm going to be stepping away from it for a while to focus on some other projects. If you're still interested in joining me for a conversation on books, music and miscellany, follow me on Twitter and/or Instagram where I'll be posting updates on what I'm [...]
When it began she was hardly a person at all. Just a soft, mushy, doughy little thing. And so this is the only world she knows. It's formed her, or at least a part of her. It's made her tough. Tougher than I am, though she doesn't know it. Someday, if she's lucky, she'll grow [...]
Though BQDC trades primarily in reviews and commentary these days, this site was originally meant to house fiction. My intent was to write short fiction pieces on a weekly basis and post them here. Obviously that never happened. The demands of such prolific fiction production proved to be too much and instead BQDC slowly evolved into [...]
Following up on Monday's musical retrospective, it's time to award some superlatives to the books that I read in 2014. Straying even farther from release dates than with my musical entry, this list reflects books that I read in 2014, not necessarily books that were released this year. Most Hyped Book (That I Didn't Really Like) - [...]
I'm not above embracing the year-end review trend here at BQDC, so using a series of nonsensical superlatives, let's take a look at the discussion-worthy music that I listened to this year. Without further ado, here's what I heard in 2014. (Note that this list reflects which albums I listened to in 2014, not necessarily which albums were [...]
Like seemingly everyone in my generation, I'm of the mindset that Jon Favreau's Elf is a Christmas classic. What kind of scrooge doesn't enjoy the adventures of Will Ferrell's lovably naive Buddy the Elf? The movie's climactic scene - which includes brilliant allusions to Lethal Weapon, The Lord of the Rings, and the freaking Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot video - [...]
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