What? Friday Already?

June 4, 2010

Friday already? It has been a very busy week. The next weeks are likely to be busier. For the last few days I’ve been busy with so many things. The runup to Taos Toolbox, the master class in writing that I’ll be running for the next two weeks. The quarterly organizational meeting at the karate […]

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Lego Printer

June 3, 2010

>From the realm of the strange, useless, and utterly cool, it’s a printer made out of Legos. [via Emily]

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Cat 1, Smoke Monster 0

May 31, 2010

Over on her blog, Cat Valente lets Lost have it with a multi-barrel chain gun. It had me hopping up and down and clapping my hands with glee, it did. Lost is a science fiction show. Now, they haven’t wanted that label from the beginning. First, they assured us that everything had a real-world explanation […]

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Green Leopard Ebook

May 29, 2010

Hey, have I mentioned that The Green Leopard Plague is available as an ebook? And at a very reasonable price, too!

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Untergang II: Enter the Man of Steel

May 29, 2010

It occurs to me that if you show these parodies in a certain order, they even have a plot. Hearing that Hitler parodies are being removed from YouTube, Stalin makes his move: Hearing that Stalin is moving in on their action, the Hitler parody writers react: And now— just because I feel like it— Hitler […]

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Untergang

May 28, 2010

As have many of you, I’ve enjoyed the “Downfall Meme,” in which a key scene of the 2004 film Der Untergang (“Downfall”) is used to comment on issues of the day. Alas, German movie dinosaur Constantin Film AG is now asserting ownership of these parodies— which, it has to be said, vastly increased the popularity […]

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Idiot Plots

May 26, 2010

Let’s say you’re a cop. You’re in pursuit of a serial killer. The killer knows you’re after him and has already trashed your house and tried to murder a member of your family. What do you do?A. Surround your family with guards.B. Get your family out of town and to an undisclosed location where the […]

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Figures From the Past

May 26, 2010

As most of you probably know, I began my career as an author of historical fiction. Those books are long out of print and, I assumed, long forgotten.I’m pleased to report that one reader hasn’t forgotten. Reader/modeler Dan Thompson has created a miniature of my character Captain Favian Markham, USN, standing on the deck of […]

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Brokeback Canal

May 25, 2010

Via Gio, an ad for French cable channel Canal+, featuring a tale of tragic love on Brokeback Mountain.

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Premake

May 22, 2010

Via Gardner, it’s the trailer for the 1950 version of The Empire Strikes Back! In 3-Dimension!

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