February 14th, 2011
Have a Card for Horny Werewolf Day 2011
I decided to throw together a card thing for Horny Werewolf Day 2011.
An explanation to what Horny Werewolf Day is lay below the cut.
January 20th, 2010
Groonkly Bit: Never Let Your Fingers Get Cold
From the current Warren Ellis interrogation thread on Whitechapel, I learn that I am not alone in these practices.
@oldhat: 1. I’ve often found it amazing how you’re able to write so many things in a day and can still come online and torment/love us. Do you have a schedule for that kind of thing, and if so can you run some of it by us? Just wondering how you do your amazing time management.
@warrenellis: It’s all on instinct, but mostly the other stuff is done during natural pauses in the work, where I can’t quite see how to get to the next bit yet, but don’t want to leave the keyboard and let my fingers get cold. So I flick up Whitechapel, Feed Demon or the Post2Blog window, just to keep typing, until the story unsticks itself and I can bring the manuscript back up…
September 22nd, 2009
Groonkly Bit : “And Also You Forgot”
Somehow inside the tendriled insanity that is this week’s Do Anything by Warren Ellis, I found coherency and decided to remember it for all time.
(…And inside, atop a rotting plinth that you belatedly realise is composed of the bodies of Len Wein’s Swamp Thing and Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing seized by cellular coma in the act of copulation, is Alan Moore on his ultradimensional stone throne, pointing an armoured finger at you and lurching forward and his scary atom eyes are burning into the front of your head as he says “There is no escape from structure. You are reading this inside a machine for living in, from a surface that is the end product of hundreds of years of industrial processes, and also you forgot –â€)
April 13th, 2009
Groonkly Bit: Geeks have Got it Bad, Hot for Science.
“Geeks are people who get turned on by ideas” whether that’s about spider powers or quantum mechanics. —Jim Kakalios
By day he studies nanotechnology. By night he, well I’ve no idea what his night time activities are. I do know he wrote The Physics of Superheroes and apparently does lectures on the content of that book.
“I don’t go to these movies with a pad of paper and a calculator.” But he delights in finding snippets of accuracy in films, which to him, “is like finding an inside joke.” In Iron Man, for instance, he noticed that star Robert Downey, Jr.’s character, Tony Stark, constructed the superhuman Iron Man suit using the same type of soldering iron Kakalios has in his lab—and correctly!
I never would have guessed that. Not in one million years. Kakalios talks more on the scientific accuracy of WATCHMEN here.
March 26th, 2009
Groonkly Bit: Thoughts for that High School Reunion
A quick hit for the moment.
“If I didn’t talk to you in high school, I don’t
need to talk to you now” – Jason Segal.
Jason Segal, stop making me like you.
March 1st, 2009
Groonkly Bit: WWKBD?
You know, the internet might be a nicer place if, before posting anything, we asked ourselves: What would Kurt Busiek do? —Jens Altman
Quoting random comics people off their Twitters seems to be my theme these last few weeks.
Let’s see how long it lasts.
February 22nd, 2009
Groonkly Bit: New Star Wars Movies Needed More Salt
“Da. When you cook, salt makes things more what they are. Meat is more meat. Fish is more fish. You taste more the thing. Brings more flavor. No salt, no flavor. Movie needed salt.” –via JMS via a very wise, very Russian, taxi cab driver
This is the only true way to review a movie now.
February 15th, 2009
Groonkly Bit: A Story is a Story is a Tale is a Yarn
Also CNN and news media in general … if you’re going to write a story titled “Biff! Bam! Kapow! Comics aren’t just for kids anymore!” please rename it to “Patronizing Thoughts On A Medium I Only Know Stereotypes About Which I Happened To Acquire Decades Ago”.
—Ryan North, The Rant for November 13 2008.
Jorge F. Muñoz got me thinking on the Animation Age Ghetto again.
February 8th, 2009
Groonkly Bit: The Years Never Stop
One of the thousand things on my mind this weekend. Bringing me down.
“2009 – 1972 = god damn it.”
—Michael Furious tweet
Trust that you’ll see this equation, in altered form, come this July.
January 13th, 2009
Groonkly Bit: Accessing the Unlovely
And the essential part of being a storyteller is being the dark guy, is being the enemy. Not becoming a bad guy in a “Bad Boys 2” kind of way where you’re just evil. [Laughs.] But you have to access that part of yourself that’s unlovely. And once you’ve set yourself up as a public figure, it’s almost like politics. It’s almost harder to do. And that’s something I sort of have to just shut down in the brain. If somebody’s offended, I probably got them thinking. And that’s probably good. If everybody’s offended, I may have fucked up. [Laughs.]
—Joss Whedon on DOLLHOUSE
