I’m coming to this almost exactly one calendar year late. The Legend of Neil is a no-budget video series about a guy who accidentally gets projected into The Legend of Zelda. It could be lame. But it’s not, it’s very clever.
I came across Joe Abercrombie when I had lunch with some people from Orbit, the science fiction publisher, a few weeks ago, and they mentioned him. They publish Abercrombie, so their objectivity is hopelessly compromised, but I put him on my list anyway. Then I was reminded of him when I was obsessively checking the [...]
This ran in Time, and I just decided it was germane to this blog. Just like that. It’s a piece about a book — no wait, hear me out — about late 18th century scientists, who were working at a time when the field was so wide open, anybody with a basement lab and some [...]
The Potter Puppet Pals are important to me. Therefore you have to look at them. Actual real posting resumes tomorrow.
I’ve been to 13 Comic-Cons. And every year I go back, I get this crazy feeling. It’s a combination of exhaustion and déjà vu and girls in costumes that warps me into a headspace where I believe that Comic-Con is my only true existence. The rest of my life – the other 364 days – [...]
I grabbed a quick interview with Chris Weitz on Thursday afternoon at Comic-Con. It almost didn’t happen, because I had a signing right before it, which ran over (and which mostly consisted of me watching Jacqueline Carey and Patrick Rothfuss signing books for fangirls anyway. But you know, dedication to the craft and all). Then [...]
Best thing I saw: it’s a three-way tie between Ponyo, Tron: Legacy, and Kick-Ass. Surrealest moment: having a dude dressed in some kind of mechwarrior armor blow past me while I was in line for Iron Man 2, and realizing that the dude was Jimmy Fallon
It’s only letting me write this “excerpt,” instead of the main text of the blog post. So let’s see what happens when I try.
I should go back now and write this as a “note” in case it crashes but I am too lazy. Feeling slightly sick from typing this on the bumpy moving 10:35 Amtrak from San Diego to LA. Seem to be writing in dying person’s last words Twitter speak. First Comic-Con with iPhone. Much easier. Text friends all day. Still remember being at Con and having to run back to room all the time to check messages in hotel room. Posting now. Let’s see if this works.
I will leave it to Matt to talk about the Simpsons panel, which I just walked past the line for. It took me 10 minutes just to walk the line. Then I paid $4 for a pretzel and sat down on the floor to gnaw it. (Dry, because my personal beliefs prevent me from paying [...]
Yesterday afternoon I went up to a door on the second floor of the San Diego Convention Center. I twisted in the wind with a skeptical security guard for 20 minutes before a Disney publicist came to rescue me. She escorted me out to a white table on a sunny terrace outside. I zealously forbade [...]
Spent two hours in the Warner brothers indoctrination chamber this morning: Where the Wild Things Are, The Book of Eli, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Box, Jonah Hex, and (the reason I came, as they intuited, since they put it last) Sherlock Holmes. Comic-Con doesn’t make it easy for you to like things. There’s so [...]
