December 21st, 2008
The year’s nowhere near over but the best/worst lists are piling up like week old laundry. I don’t have anything against such year end reviews. I just never made the time to see/watch/read/do all the things discussed on said lists. Any reviews I make would be damn incomplete. So I’ll rely on others to do my dirty work.* Then judge them appropriately when I find their results wrong.
Heh.
Entertainment Weekly’s Best & Worst of 2008
It’s surprising how a crap magazine can get a few things right once in a while.
I’m tempted to pick up EW tomorrow for the HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER photoshoot. The entire cast acts out random moments in 2008. If the show were as cool as the cast seems to be, I’d still be watching HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER.
Pitchfork Media put forth two bits of bests so far. For those who don’t know, they’re the Indie Rock Pete of the online music media game. Bursting forth from the ashes of what Rolling Stone used to be, maybe 20 years ago, I look forward to running through their tracks to discover something new and majestic and not found easily on mainstream radio.
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July 27th, 2008
I love watching artists work. It’s like quantifiable magic. It’s magic cause drawing is something I just cannot do.
Just learned of Ben Bishop’s first book, Nathan the Caveman, via a short review on Pulp Secret.
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August 31st, 2006
The Internet told me to do it.
Gone to let Dragon Con 06 eat me raw and spit me out. I’ll meet geek celebrities and be glad of it. I’ll meet the light and dark sides of geek culture and, hopefully, survive it.
Futurephone reports are a definite.
As I don’t know about my access to internetivity the next four days, I most likely won’t be back on until late Monday or Tuesday.
I was sent these clever instructions from DragonCon vets.
Take an open mind and a sense of awe and enthusiasm.
Keep your eyes open and looking around, you never know what you will see.
There are (at least) 2 classes of people at Con. The day people and the night people.
Make sure and spend some quality time in the Art Show, Dealer Room, and the Walk of Fame.
The Masquerade is not to be missed, it is the highlight of the weekend.
Bring a camera with plenty of film (or a big memory stick), and backup batteries, keep it handy.
Have snacks on hand, you never know when you will have accidentally missed the window on open restaurants or just not have time to stop for a real meal.
The longest lines are at Wendy’s, consider eating at odd times.
Don’t spend all of your money in the first 10 minutes in the dealers room. I say this because I have seen it happen more than once.
When you have some down time, coordinate your schedule with your friends and figure out which tracts you want to see and when you want to take out time for the sideshows.
Learn the back way around the main hotel and between the hotels.
There is a stairwell near Con Registration that is never busy.
There is a stairwell by ConSuite (2nd floor) behind the big plastic Italian guy by the pool.
There are indoor elevated walkways between the main 2 hotels and the mall food court.
Take some cough drops and tylenol. I have gotten some level of cold in ~3/8 years I’ve gone to Con.
The Anime room is a good place to burn some time.
(compliments of Nathan H. and Dunc!)
Great Maker, What have I gotten myself into?
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October 22nd, 2003
I think I now know.
You won’t find Susannah Breslin’s new book, You’re a Bad Man, Aren’t You?, at Barnes & Noble, nor is it likely to pass the censors at Wal-Mart. Her voyeuristic stories press your nose to the smudged windows of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley for a view of the pornographic film sets and fetishistic explorations within …
There’s more to Breslin’s short stories than the novelty of the subject matter. The characters discuss the porn industry in a rather blue-collar fashion, and the stories are decidedly free of panting, heaving and dripping. Breslin is more interested in what drives people to work in the industry and what effect it has on them. The stories about fetishes, such as sex with furniture in “F is for Forniphilia,” humorously capture the odd quirks of human sexual cravings. “I think the humor, and the fact that I’m not actually — I don’t think — writing sexually explicit material is a good counterweight to the fact that there are troubling people and extreme ideas or practices at work,” Breslin says.
dph knew her whereabouts all along.
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September 29th, 2003
A book on teaching or learning about TV narrative. If I’m not mistaken, year 12 means a high school senior in american talk. Man I went to the wrong country for schoolin’.
-groonk
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September 20th, 2003
I could go for some inspiration.
The following list is devoted to books that offer the truest inspiration, the deepest reflection, the strongest provocation. These are books that seize imaginations and rattle sedentary lives.
Or even a fucking break.
Here’s some stuff for the outside too.
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August 29th, 2003
Just a small snippet of Opener of the Ways, my new favorite short story by Richard Kadrey.
“Why is it always seven?” Margaret asked. “Seven deadly sins. Seven virtues. Seven pillars of wisdom. Seven lines on a grave to erase the sins of the dead.”
“Seven segments of a rainbow,” said Anubis, in a clear very un-doglike voice. “Seven souls.”
“Is that why? Because we have seven souls?”
“Perhaps. Four parts of mortals are connected to Earth, three to Heaven. If you add up the numbers one through seven, you get twenty-eight, the same number as the cycle of the moon. Of course, it could be simpler. It could be that everyone in the universe hates six, so the gods just rounded up one.”
Follow the link to read the entire story. And check out the many other authors on The Infinite Matrix
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August 26th, 2003
“…When the wolves come out of the walls, it’s all over.”
Didn’t you know?
Everybody knows that.
I read it while meandering around Barnes and Noble. I loved every minute of it!
A possible Christmas present for the nephew.
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August 20th, 2003
Once upon a time, there was an Idea…
This idea was small in stature. It flitted around nega-space until it found the right person. Then it whispered into his ear and the Idea was born.
Once alive, the Idea grew to proportions previously unimagined and became Delicate Creatures, a fairy tale for adults. Within it’s pages you find a Princess, simple but powerful tiny beings, and evil Green Men. Wisdom is found here. As well as rage, knowledge, and compassion. All of these things born from a once small, seemingly insignificant but clever Idea.
-Groonk
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