Benjamin Wallace's Blog

Being unemployed has been tremendous for my leisure time. Here’s what I’ve been reading and listening to this month. (Affiliate links included) Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett Start by Jon Acuff Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by Zucker Abrahams Zucker Real Artists […]

It’s here. The audiobook for Dads vs Zombies: Year 2 is now available on Audbile! Phil Thron returns to narrate the further adventures of John, Chris and Erik and does an amazing job as always!                 Listen Now!     The world looks different a year after the […]

  Dads vs Zombies: Year 2 is available now! EBOOK PRINT   The world looks different a year after the dead rose from their graves. Survivors live in walled enclaves while the zombies roam freely in the wasteland. John, Chris and Erik have made their home in the enclave of Haven and earn their keep […]

My daughter was doing a paper on women in the workforce during WWII earlier this week and we discovered that Rosie the Riveter, while the most famous, was only one of several characters created to encourage women to seek factory work. I always thought of Rosie as a standalone character like Uncle Sam or Johnny […]

The F word has been around for almost 800 years. But science fiction writers seem convinced we will get tired of it in the near future and replace it with something that sounds almost exactly like it. Sure, words fall out of disuse. But the F word can be a noun, a verb, an adjective, […]

If you follow me on Facebook, you’ll know that I wasn’t a big fan of the new Willow series. But I am definitely not against sequels to 80’s franchises. I enjoyed Cobra Kai. I liked Top Gun Maverick. Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a great continuation to the original and a touching memorial. I’m all for ‘em, […]

The problem with having a true everyman protagonist is finding plausible reasons to get them into trouble on a regular basis while equipping them the skills to get out of it. That’s why most adventure story heroes are former military, law enforcement or some kind of ninja trying to leave that life behind. One exception […]

Some big changes are happening around here. I’m going back to work. That’s right. A real job like a real grownup. An opportunity presented itself that I couldn’t turn down, so I’ll be going back to a day job for the first time in almost a decade. But what does that mean for all this […]

  “If we’re not back by dawn, call the President.” – Jack Burton One of the greatest characters of all time. The buffoon that doesn’t realize he’s the sidekick and not the hero. His abilities didn’t always keep up with his mouth, but his courage never waned. And he never gave up. Maybe a little […]

I wish I could write about music. I love music. There are very few moments in a day when I’m not listening to something. I’ve played music. I’ve been in a band. A band that played in front of people. Not a lot of people. But I’ve never felt that I understood music well enough […]