Stuff & Nonsense – Rudy Martinez

That’s What I’m Fucking Talking About

admin February 23, 2026 No Comments

A Letter to My Father Sorry it’s been so long. I started a letter last week, but some shiny object distracted me. It was the Winter Olympics, the shiny object. My wife loves figure skating so we watched. It’s always amazing to see what they can do – men and women. The grace, the beauty, […]

Be An Uppercase

admin February 6, 2026 No Comments

I’m angry. I know that isn’t surprising considering the state of the U.S. these days, but I need to get it off my chest all the same. We have a racist Administration running what, in my opinion, amounts to a state sponsored domestic terrorist organization in ICE. They’ve killed scores of people already, locked up […]

The Frankish Kingdom – Clovis and the Birth of Paris

admin January 7, 2026 No Comments

A twenty-year-old barbarian warlord stands at the gates of Paris. His name is Clovis. He’s just defeated the last Roman holdout in Gaul. And he’s about to change everything. This is the story of how Paris became a capital for the first time. How a pagan warrior king met an elderly saint named Geneviève who […]

In a Million Lifetimes

admin January 7, 2026 No Comments

I have been writing these letters to you in my head almost from the moment you died. There is no real theme, or end-goal with them; they are just my way of saying the things I would say were you still here. You are the best friend I have ever had so, of course I […]

Maybe Is A Nothing Word

admin January 7, 2026 No Comments

I had been sober a few years and living in Ohio when I got the call the that you were in the hospital, the result of a drunken night and a brawl in a bar. Or outside the bar. Or who cares where it was, really. I flew home in time to get to you […]

Lutetia – Rome Comes to the Seine

admin December 16, 2025 No Comments

The Parisii lost. Now what? After the defeat at Alesia, the world of the Parisii will never be the same. Rome doesn’t just conquer – it transforms. Watch as Celtic villages become Roman cities, as druids disappear and Latin replaces Gaulish, as a people’s entire identity shifts across three generations. This is the story of […]

Part One: The Parisii

admin December 11, 2025 No Comments

Transcript: Picture the Seine. Not the Seine you know today – no stone bridges, no grand boulevards, no Eiffel Tower piercing the sky. Go back further. Much further. To a time before Paris was Paris, before the very word “Paris” existed. It’s the third century before the Common Era. The river flows through dense forests […]

The Stuff of You

admin December 8, 2025 No Comments

A Letter to my Father I wanted to tell you – I wrote a book. Two so far, actually. For kids because your niece’s little warrior face inspired me. Since I cannot draw I have had to utilize AI to create images for me. I would explain AI to you dad, but you’d probably make […]