2) The eleven topics all crime fiction blogs post about.
3) Ten things crime fiction writers can learn from Paris Hilton
4) Michael Shanks as Hawkman? No. Just… no. Isn’t there a superhero who plays tennis and does hot yoga he can play? Because that seems more his speed.
5) Your book isn’t self-published, but do readers know that?
It turns out that Joshua Jackson has been cast as Captain Foster in the feature film adaptation of the British SF TV show UFO. No word yet on who will be cast as the ultra-fashionable but mean as hell Commander Straker.
And yeah, that sound you hear is me falling over like I’ve been punched in the gut.
Joshua Jackson! In an Interceptor! You know he won’t be stuck with that one stupid missile on the front of his ship. Mr. TV Star is going to have, like, ten!
And he’s going to slide feet-first through an opening in the wall to board his space ship, and I never, ever will. The bastard. I wonder if I can sneak onto the set.
It’s still early in the week, so I’m not online very much. I do want to say this, since I’m prepping for Turkey Day.
I will be brining my turkey, a la Alton Brown. I will also be baking an AB sweet potato pie. However, I don’t care what he says, stuffing is NOT evil.
Yeah, it adds cooking time, but I run potato skewers through it to bring heat to the inside of the bird. The slightly damp stuffing gives off steam that helps cook the bird from the inside.
Evil? I think not.
I missed it because I was watching a movie about aliens who come to earth, pretend to be our friends, are revealed on TV to be aliens in human suits (um… duh!), come clean about their plans to eat humans like cow-kabobs, and are finally defeated by a plucky band of resistence fighters.
Really!
It was called GODZILLA: FINAL WAR and it also had super kung fu mutant soldiers in really stupid “armor”, giant rampaging monsters (‘natch), flying battle machines with huge borers on the front (!!!), an ex-MMA champion as captain of the last flying/underwater/undergroud battle machine, a 100% racist scene with a black NY pimp and his pimp-mobile, ray gun battles, a super ninja motorcycle battle, chi-powered kung fu blasts, and a hero who discovers at the end that he had Sekrit Powers!
So… HAH! You are jealous and don’t try to deny it!
It was a comment on another board that prompted the informal poll from this morning. The writer stated that many people went to movies they knew would be awful (Hello, Transformers 2) because they wanted to be part of a big event.
Me, I was dubious, because what “event” could he be talking about? The release of a summer tent-pole movie? Somehow, I doubted it. More likely, I thought, was the surge of online commentary–argument about the plot, parodies, discussions of who’s hawt and who leaves you clammy, whatever.
I should note that I don’t go to movies for this–mainly because I don’t go to movies. It’s impossible to find a baby sitter, and my wife and son already saw PONYO without me (do I resent them for it? Fuck yeah.).
Books, well, I buy them near publication now, to support the author and make sure I have a copy when I finally get around to reading it 18 months later. But I don’t generally buy and devour (except for Harry Potter). Books just don’t have the same urgency.
And finally there’s TV. If enough people talk about a TV show, praise or slam, in interesting ways, I’ll make a point of watching it. I watched CASTLE because of this, and DOLLHOUSE, too. I used to read a lot of commentary on SUPERNATURAL, but it’s fallen off my reading list, and I’m not nearly as enthusiastic about the show as I used to be (for several reasons, actually, but that’s just one).
I also watch a couple shows that no one seems to talk about. AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN? Anyone? Even notice how it’s the women on that show who do all the cooking and the men are either taste-testing or in the back experimenting on melon ballers or whatever? No?
Anyway, I was just trying to determine what sort of “event” this fellow was talking about.
Have you ever gone to see a movie in the theater/read a new book right away/rearranged your schedule to watch a TV program because you knew there would be talk about it in social media and you wanted to be part of the conversation?
