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A Chuck Jones Christmas Carol

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It’s that time of year again, so here’s my favorite version of A Christmas Carol. Lots of ghosts, terrific art direction, and general spookiness

Randomness for 11/27

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1) We Watch It For You: Rage of the Yeti. OMG, why didn’t anyone tell me this exists!

2) Walking through doors causes forgetting, study determines.

3) Ultra-serious Amazon.com reviewers take on pepper spray.

4) Reuters Best 100 Photos of 2011. Some of these are gorgeous. Some of these are difficult to look at.

5) Famous paintings with irreverent new titles.

6) “Twe-twe-2016!” A truly terrible trailer for a movie from Ghana. So awful and so compelling. Video.

7) The series bible for the old D&D cartoon.

Randomness for 11/12

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1) A gorgeous piece of projection art. Video. Amazing. via @i09.

2) “Your walkie-talkie is not a psychiatrist.” Video. Walking Dead lol.

3) A Babbage Difference Engine made of Legos. Video.

4) Man punishes daughter by making her put on home-made “renaissance” armor and fighting her. At 2am. Until 4am.

5) Man rides 90-foot wave off the coast of Portugal. This might be the largest wave ever ridden by a human. Video.

6) Nine muppets booted off Sesame Street. I loved Don Music!

7) Awesomely Dangerous Pranks from Bygone Days.

Randomness for 10/25

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1) A big list of fantastic stop motion movies. Whoa.

2) “FIGHT ME” Video. Pretty funny stuff.

3) Elementary school kids explain computers, from 1984. Video.

4) Halloween house lights that will amaze you. Video.

5) A vampire identification chart.

6) The site calls this list “The Ten Happiest Jobs” but it really shows ten jobs that make people happiest.

7) Rebranding Hell.

Randomness for 10/19

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1) We are the 1%, bitches.

2) The tragedy series.

3) Infographic political statements on your legal tender.

4) How taxing is it to run in heavy armor?

5) The world’s largest rooftop farm is in New York.

6) Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance.

7) The Dungeons and Dragons Coloring Book from 1979. These images are perfectly sized for printing. Just sayin’.

Randomness for 10/13

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1) What it’s like to work on a show in trouble.

2) Saveur magazine invites comix artists to write and draw their favorite recipes. Wonderful.

3) Cameos carved in Oreo cookies.

4) Cat vs. Hairdryer. Video.

5) Six big economic myths, debunked.

6) Super-rich superheroes (and villains) are the 1%!

7) TV/movie starships, to scale.

SFBC Omnibus Editions Have Arrived

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Just a few moments ago I received a box of my author copies of The Wooden Man, the omnibus edition of my three Twenty Palaces novels. You can see the black satin ribbon bookmark that marks it as that month’s “Sliver of Night” selection (aka the featured urban fantasy for the catalog) for the Science Fiction Book Club.

And you can see my Halloween table cloth, too. I think that’s appropriate.

Anyway, if you want the omnibus, you’ll have to get it from SFBC or buy it second hand from one of their members. There’s a special introduction I wrote for it that you won’t find anywhere else.

Randomness for 10/10

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1) Evangelicals try to rebrand Halloween into “Jesusween” because what’s more important that Jesus’s ween?

2) Photos of people scared shitless at a haunted house. This is so freaking amazing I don’t even know.

3) Ten stubborn food myths that just won’t die.

4) Want to see part of a mountain fall into the sea? Video.

5) I include this because it looks great and is technically well done, even if the “story” isn’t: Stop-Motion Ninja duel. Video.

6) This is why I’m not nostalgic about Steve Jobs, even though my home is full of stuff he sold.

7) This post by Ezra Klein is pretty good chronicling of the errors made when the Obama administration designed their stimulus.

Bonus link: There’s a site re-posting old Usenet articles exactly 30 years after they were originally posted. Use your newsreader: nntp.olduse.net.

Randomness for 10/6

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1) This is the guy who should be redesigning DC’s rebooted heroes.

2) Artwork created in rice fields.

3) The 20 Biggest Idiots on Facebook. via Marisol

4) Spooky Victorian Mansions made of Legos.

5) Who Killed Videogames, A Ghost Story

6) Microphotography contest winners.

7) “We are the 1%.”

Randomness for 9/29

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1) The Dead Sea Scrolls are available online.

2) A flowchart guide to NPR’s top 100 sf/f books. “Enjoy stories about orphaned farm boys?” “No.” “Tough.”

3) M&Ms viewed through water drops.

4) How not to impress a publisher. And it’s all true, which won’t surprise anyone.

5) How to peel a whole head of garlic in ten seconds.

6) Photos of supers in their off moments. Of course Wonder Woman is the only one in a sexual activity and, um, considering the history of the character… Never mind. Love the Spider-man, though. Via Bill Martell.

7) Edible super-hero logos. Hellboy in chili is perfect, but I doubt the Punisher has ever gone near soy yogurt in his life.