Archive for October, 2006

It starts tomorrow…

Chapter one of my November novel goes up tomorrow (I hope). I know you’re trembling with anticipation. I am too. I’ll link to it here once it’s up.
What’s that? What am I talking about? Well it’s right here in black and white. Okay shades of blue.

It’s not too late. [...]

Pushing your kids…

Masi Oka who plays Hiro was interviewed by SuperHero Hype a while back (full text here) and they just ran it last week due to his popularity. It’s nice that he seems to be just as much a full on manga geek as his character is. He also credits the fact that he [...]

Friday funny…

Thanks to SouthCon for this. It may be old and if you’re a fan of the Robot Chicken you’ve seen it before. Still funny and right on target!

Also don’t you dare miss the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin special that’s on ABC tonight at 8:00.

Really bad movies…

Over at The Fake Life we’ve been discussing really bad cinema. We pitted the following movies against each other:
Superman IV vs. Star Trek V
Godzilla (‘98) vs. Van Helsing.
Star Wars – Episode II: Attack of the Clones vs. The Matrix: Revolutions
Batman & Robin vs a bunch of really truly terrible films (Catwoman, Highlander 2, Caravan [...]

Rooting for jerks…

A post on the Thinklings got me to thinking (thinkling?). House and Shark, whatever you may think about their relative merits entertainment-wise, are both about these scoundrels that we are supposed to root for. They are cruel, mean-spirited, hardened men who enjoy coming down on their underlings like a ton of bricks. [...]

Life stuff…

We have had several mini-quakes in our part of NC. It was very weird. I only felt two of them and the ones that registered were about 2.6 on the Richter Scale. You can’t ordinarily feel those unless you’re right on top of them. We were. It sounded a bit [...]

Autisitic Artist

This man, Stephen Wiltshire, has a form of autism called Asperger’s Syndrome. We believe that my son may well have it too, though it’s difficult to diagnose in one so young. It’s a very high functioning form and the people who have it are able to communicate and lead productive lives, they just [...]

Doomed to fail?

No not my writing project, I’ve been setting up a sub blog where my NaNoWriMo novel will go. Rather this:

HP has created a printer that is essentially an email appliance for people who don’t have a computer. It costs $150 and for ten bucks a month or a hundred a year it will [...]

NaNoWriMo

I’m gonna do it by golly. If you’re wondering what I’m smoking, well all I can say is that I want to be a writer and the way to do that is to write. If you want to know what it’s all about, I along with some unknown thousands of others will try [...]

Weird Al “Interviews” Eminem

To lighten things up. Weird Al does a mash up interview of Eminem since The M wouldn’t let him do a video parody of Lose Yourself:

Shout out to Darrell!