I will actually be doing regular blogging this week. Last week I had to go to Seattle. Then I was at BEA, which is the big publishing ho-down. But this week I will be functioning normally.
The trailer for the new Twilight movie is up. You might just want to skip straight to :45, since the first part is just about mushy feelings. Then …
Mary Lou Jepsen just popped into town from Taiwan, and brought along a few prototypes of her company’s new displays with her. So I went over to her houseboat for a quick visit this morning. I’m pretty excited: This could be the magic bullet for the e-reader market—at least for the next few years.
So I’m in Seattle getting my pre-E3 briefing from Microsoft and I plum forgot to blog until now. (If anybody knows what plum means in that sentence, feel free to let me know.) I have no idea whatsoever what’s going on in the wider world. But I wanted to write up a few notes about LeakyCon, where I was last week. I’m going to lay it on …
I’m always a few years behind what’s up in comics. Especially mainstream superhero stuff. Every time I pop into a store, I’ve missed like three Secret Crossover Crisis Infinite Civil Secret Continuity Change-Everything Wars. But all the good stuff is reprinted in trade form, so buying comics is kind of like going to the butcher. I …
I couldn’t really call myself a scholar of the Terminator franchise. Mostly what distinguishes me from other Terminator fans is my unusual ability to enjoy and re-watch T3: Rise of the Machines. This is partly though not entirely accounted for by my lingering celebrity crush on Claire Danes. (True story: I used to live with someone who …
LeakyCon 2009 starts tomorrow in Boston. I’ll be there. I’m doing a presentation on Friday morning about my book, and generally how Harry Potter has changed fantasy — check the schedule, yo. Stop by if you’re there? Although I am brutally scheduled opposite the Wizard Rock roundtable.
It’s here. You’ve probably seen it. Let’s put it here too:
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I wonder why I’m not more stoked about this. I mean, love Robert Downey, Jr. I could watch him shave. I often do, through a telephoto lens, outside his heavily guarded estate. But this feels like a bit of a …
Like many of you, I have a giant plastic container in my garage, crammed full of old t-shirts that I will never wear again. These t-shirts were acquired during the many activities typical of an unadventurous, white-person poseur existence. (A college lacrosse shirt, even though I have never touched a lacrosse stick; an MTV Half-Hour …
OK, I know this thing has been kicking around since 2004, but I only just got to it this weekend. (I checked it out after watching the trailer for the Harry Potter fandom documentary We Are Wizards.)
Brad Neely — the comic who did Babycakes and suchlike disturbing/funny Internet stuff (if you haven’t watched it, you might think …
John Swartzwelder, the man who wrote the line, “Here’s to alcohol. The cause of — and solution to — all life’s problems,” has a new book out. More jokes about aliens, time-travel, punching, and throwing fire-crackers into the jars of super-intelligent brains from the future.
I was skimming through this article on Eurogamer about the best Xbox Live achievements — because, you know, other people are going to come up with a cure for malaria — and I couldn’t help but be struck by the plangent awesomeness of people’s accounts of how they beat the really serious ones.
Check out for example this dude, who got …
The wife ain’t around nearly that much in the book, on account of her being dead. And there are a few more Tusken Raiders than I remember. Otherwise it looks like a very faithful adaptation. In other words it’s kill-yourself depressing. Save the last bullet for me, Viggo.
