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February 9, 2009 · 189 words
Coraline 2D
We saw Coraline the other day, and for some reason I was not enchanted. (My reaction to the book was enchantment from Page One, or thereabouts.) I spent the entire film admiring the movie’s technical achievements, but I was never caught up in the action, and the odd thing is that I can’t figure out […]
Read entry →February 6, 2009 · 108 words
Shirt Full of Goodies
The Good News Fairy has a veritable shirt full of goodies for me this week!Firstly, the folks at conceptscifi.com have very kindly made This Is Not a Game their book of the month! One could have wished that it would occur on the month when the book is actually released, but one can’t have everything, […]
Read entry →February 6, 2009 · 73 words
Why I’m Slow This Week
When I was in the hospital for my few brief hours of day surgery, I got a head cold.So I’m recovering not only from surgery (which is going just fine, thank you for asking), but I’m recovering from a cold at the very same time. Kathy pointed out that I might as well save time […]
Read entry →February 4, 2009 · 55 words
Pride. Prejudice. Zombies.
Some of you are thinking, “why?” Why defile a perfectly good piece of classic English literature by adding gratuitous gore, ninjas, and childish sexual innuendos? Well I say, “because it’s there…and because antiquated copyright laws let me.”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Coming
Read entry →February 3, 2009 · 1,480 words
Reviews Too Late: Lust, Caution
You know that if it’s a serious Chinese-language film, it’s going to be a tragedy. No one in China ever gets a happy ending. Ever. Not even fictional characters. That’s Rule #1. So I never figured I’d ever mistake this film for, say, It’s a Wonderful Life.Yet when Netflix informed me that Ang Lee had […]
Read entry →February 2, 2009 · 122 words
Returned to Life
So I was out of town for a few days, and when I returned I slipped into the hospital for some brief voluntary surgery. I had an annoying (but fortunately benign) cyst removed. I had hoped to return with the cyst in a jar of alcohol, but somehow this did not happen.I spent the weekend […]
Read entry →February 2, 2009 · 53 words
Kind Words
As my world slowly returns to something resembling normal, I find kind words on the Internet.First, Jane Lindskold says some nice things about Implied Spaces.And next, Worlds Without End passes on the word about This Is Not a Game. Pleasing things to encounter as I stagger back to life.
Read entry →January 26, 2009 · 272 words
Sounds
I’m going to be away for a few days, and I don’t know whether I’ll have the chance to Internet while I’m away. (Jeez. I just made “Internet” a verb. Somebody stop me!)I’ll try not to invent any new verbs for the rest of this post.Since I won’t be talking to you, why don’t you […]
Read entry →January 23, 2009 · 548 words
Diaz, Delany, Dinner
Last night Daniel, Ty, and I drove up to Santa Fe to enjoy dinner with Samuel R. Delany and Junot Diaz. Junot was doing a reading at a local theater, after which Chip would interview him— the event was completely sold out, by the way, we could only get tickets in the next-to-last row of […]
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