It’s been bouncing around the Net in shaky-cam amateur-vision, but now the Quicktime version is up. It’s here.
I can’t decide if galloping Liev Schreiber is funny or scary. But seeing Emma Frost shift into diamond form is probably worth the price of admission all on its own.
I’ve been working on a fantasy novel for the past few years. Adult fantasy, I guess you’d call it. Whatever that means. Anyway we’re getting close enough to publication that I’ve finally reached the point where I’m supposed to draw the map.
I guess I could have started with it, but to be honest I didn’t really know enough about the …
In the very brief period of my life when I was extroverted and not introverted — circa ages 7-9 — I appeared in my elementary school’s production of A Charlie Brown Christmas as Charlie Brown. I still have the yellow shirt with the ziggy black line. Ironically I now have a bald round Charlie Brown head, but I can no longer fit into the …
When I first saw the trailer for The Sky Crawlers, a movie by Mamoru Oshii, the guy who made the cyberpunk classic Ghost in the Shell, I thought: eh, he’s gone in for some kind of historical deal about fighter pilots. Pretty, but come on! More ghosts! More shells! Dude only makes a movie about once every 5 years as it is.
Special weekend edition! If there was a special National Magazine Award for criticism written while extremely hungover, I think this piece would be a real contender.
By which I mean that. My colleague James Poniewozik has seen Dollhouse and blogged about it. He makes a good point:
Dollhouse [sic — Jim is way lazier about italicizing things than I am] as conceived (a heroine plays a different “person” every week) is less a series concept than an actress’ showcase, a sort of extreme version of an
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Behold, gentle reader, this odd-rhyming storium
Of bookselling’s classiest sassiest emporium
You enter to see the most avant-garde shelves
Philippe Starck dreamed them up, then installed by gay elves
Now gaze at the stacks, and try to keep stable
As these books are worthy of God’s coffee table
Nature engravings of ancient
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I haven’t come across a whole ton of quality writing about C.S. Lewis. Some of it over-focuses on the Christian angle, pro and con, and a lot more of it is kind of fannish, which isn’t a huge problem for me because I’m a fan, but still. Sometimes you want fandom, sometimes you want hard flinty literary analysis.
Now I’m reading Laura …
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I haven’t been shy in the past about my excessive ardor for the webcomic The Order of the Stick. I bring it up again now (my ardor that is) because for the first time I’m in possession of a couple of hard-copy editions of the comic.
Quick summary: The Order of the Stick is a webcomic about a band of D&D characters. Lately they’ve been …
I don’t watch horror movies. But I do watch clips of the good bits from horror movies, when helpful sites like io9 post them. (I never know if that’s a zero or a letter o in there. Well, today it’s a letter o.) Yesterday they posted this clip from The Host. Just watch that first epic 40-second shot! I don’t understand why all movies …
I know that what you’re really excited about is finding out which one I like better, Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero World Tour. (It’s Rock Band 2.)
But as it happens I got an early copy of Carrie Fisher’s memoir Wishful Drinking, which is coming out in early December, and it’s actually pretty entertaining — it’s very sort of wry and …