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Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (Ch 6)

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I was supreme lord of the bathroom once, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

I used to be supreme lord of the bathroom like Percy, but then I took an arrow in the knee.

Something weird is in the attic, and there’s sewage water everywhere! So naturally that means it’s time for the sixth chapter of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief…

I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

I liked this chapter. It had a lot of exposition, but it’s exposition that previous chapters have given me an appetite for, so it works. Percy gets a tour of the camp, learns that all the kids (including him) have a divine parent, and then unwittingly empties a bathroom’s worth of toilet water on some of Ares’s kids. [Read more…]

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (Ch 5)

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FIIIVE GOLDEN...um...Line?

FIIIVE GOLDEN…um…
Line?

Rick Riordan drops the capital-G God-bomb and then runs away! “We shan’t deal with the metaphysical.” (But really, can you blame him?) It must be time for the fifth chapter in Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief…

I Play Pinochle with a Horse

In this chapter I met a couple of new characters, got annoyed with Percy, and had a suspicion confirmed. [Read more…]

Gaming: Rebel Galaxy

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Primitive but excellent.

Long, long ago, in the before-time, I got my first computer. It was 1990, and on my birthday my parents presented me with a state-of-the-art PC. It had an Intel 286 chip that could run at the whopping speed of TWELVE MEGAHERTZ! That was fast, for the time. It had no mouse, because the operating system was text-based (MS-DOS). It had no hard drive, because the OS booted into RAM from a floppy disk. A 5.25″ floppy disk. The monitor? 14 inches of amber monochrome awesome! It had a word processor, but being a 15 year old boy, I primarily used it for games. [Read more…]

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (Ch 4)

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Send Fourth the Minotaur!

Send Fourth the Minotaur!

Lightning-lit battles, horny adversaries, and even more pantsless-Grover! It must be time for another installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief. It’s the 4th chapter…

My Mother Teaches Me Bullfighting

MY mother once taught me how to catch bumblebees. Never bullfighting. Then again, there were very few bulls in our neighborhood, to say nothing of minotaurs. That’s county zoning law for ya. [Read more…]

Upgrade Your Story Podcast

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Last week I had the pleasure of chatting with UpgradeYourStory.com’s Ally Bishop (and, briefly, her dog) about writing, comedy, and Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure. The interview went up the Upgrade Your Story podcast yesterday.

Head on over there and have a listen!

Michael G. Munz Interview on the Upgrade Your Story podcast!

Click my noggin to go to Upgrade Your Story  and hear why I said, “I’m sorry I killed that guy.”

Age of Ultron Official Teaser Trailer!

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I’ve never been a big reader of comic books. (Hey, I can’t consume EVERYthing!) That said, I’ve really been enjoying the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I honestly have no idea who Ultron is, but this is looking good so far…

I DO know, at least, that what we saw there was Hulkbuster armor… Right?

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief (Ch 3)

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See that exclamation point? It means get excited!...Go ahead. I'll wait.

See that exclamation point? It means get excited!
…Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Lousy step-parents, blue candy, prophetic dreams, and missing pants! That can only mean that it’s time for another installment of Michael Reads Percy Jackson! Enter The Lightning Thief, chapter three, a.k.a.:

Grover Unexpectedly Loses His Pants

I suppose it’s better to lose them unexpectedly. …I’m not sure how to back up that statement. And that’s my favorite chapter title so far. [Read more…]