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http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27664This is a blog post, ostensibly about Inception, from 2010. It has some interesting layers. What gives me pause (not the whole National Service will mean people will be drafted into the army, because that sounds dangerously plausible to me - and I think any service should be voluntary, because otherwise it is, in fact, slavery) is his little line about how Comic Con is the kind of place where "good looking" women can now roam free, sans their protective husbands and boyfriends. I. I just think. That the world should burn down sometimes. Just. FUCK YOU, white male privilege, fuck you, that I'm fucking soaking in it, and that I am just as liable to judge a woman for her prettiness or lack of it, thank you very fucking much. Just: screen wipe: a world without memory and a world where men can't physically bully women or mentally bully everyone else. Just. Fuck. Otherwise, I find his premise concerning Inception intriguing. But it makes me ineffably sad to think that even in the world of the film, Arthur is too excellent to exist. Tags: inception, sheramanhatingclub
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The new book by M. Pants, she is out! TODAY! THRUSTS OF JUSTICEYou’re just an unemployed reporter until a cryptic warning and an explosion outside your favorite bar send you down the road to becoming one of three superpowered heroes (or, potentially, villains – we’re not here to judge). Dark vigilante? Armored space cop? Wisecracking mutant? Whichever path you choose, you’d better get busy, because a mysterious plot is afoot and – like it or not – you’re the only thing standing between the forces of evil and utter annihilation. There are 90 possible endings (81 of which result in your humiliating death). The print edition runs 320 pages. Buy it today as part of our Amazon Bomb and help a humble indie become a bestseller! Trade paperback ($10.01): http://amzn.to/HA0YcI... Kindle ($3.99): http://amzn.to/HA0KCxInternational? See http://www.chooseomatic.com/justiceBuy one for yourself and one for your cousin! Woo, Justice! Thrusting! Chooseomatically! Tags: chooseomatic
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You know how in days of yore they hired tasters to sample your snacks so you wouldn't get poisoned? Is there, you know, like a reader willing to pre-chew my fiction, because. Sure, there are warnings, but "Graphic Depicitions of Violence"... I mean, it's Sherlock, it's all corpses murdered horrifically all the time, canonically, so. It doesn't necessarily follow that it would be mean EXTENDED ON-SCREEN TORTURE AND CRIPPLING INJURY FOR LIFE. The first half had some really breathtaking stuff, man, I mean it. Insight from Sherlock's POV that was quite thrilling, honestly lovely characterization, taut plotting, incendiary hotness. But then it just veered into torture porn and never came back. sigh In other news, I am a wuss. Wait, you knew that. Tags: sherlock
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What I ask, my life, is not firm
outlines, plausible looks, possessions.
Now, in your restless running, wormwood
and honey taste the same.
The heart that loathes all motion
is seldom jolted by shocks.
So, at times, the country hush
is shattered by a shot.
I found this poem in a book of translated Italian Poetry (“WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE”). It’s from Cuttlefish Bones by Eugenio Montale, and it looks to be a collection of poems written in 1920-1927, although this paperback is circa 1994. It was stuck in the middle of a shelf of medical texts and references in the lab, with a yellow post-it note marking the page (49). Was it just marking a place, or does this poem in particular have some meaning for the mysterious owner of this book, left parked on a shelf next to A Comparative and Critical Study: Medicine in The United States and the Soviet Union, 1962? For whatever reason, it makes me think of Sherlock. Tags: a new song in my mouth, sherlock
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Yesterday I did a post at ftE about the Grounding of Group 6 and why it is SO RAD YOU GUYS and M. Pants alerted the author, who sent him the following lovely little note: Hi M-
Thanks for alerting me to FavoriteThingEver’s delightful piece about my novel, The Grounding of Group 6. Kormatic’s approval of it warmed me like a ray of sunshine would have done, had there been one on this cold gray day. What she took away from reading the book at ten – a bolstered sense of self – has been in many letters I’ve had from other readers much older than ten.
You may be interested to know that the cover that drew Kormatic to Group 6 was the brainchild of the book’s Avon editor at the time, Jean Feiwel. She caused six models to come to her office, got them in costume, and had the illustrator capture one of their poses. I agree that it was a fine 1983 cover, even if some of the characters weren’t quite right.
Unlike you, I am crazy about the 2012 cover on the new edition now at Amazon. For me, it’s a sophisticated surreal depiction of five dead bodies tumbling into one of the faults in the limestone of the Taconic Range.
Again – my thanks and best wishes,
Julian Thompson
M. Pants notes: 'He did this in a Microsoft Word doc, attached to an email that just said "see attached."
Bless his 1980s pre-internet heart. See attached!'Dawwwwwwwww, forEVer!!!!! (Although I am now a little sorry for saying his new book cover looks like an illustration of VD.)
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Good 2012 to you, my golden cupcakes. It's to be the best year, you guys. As per usual, Yuletide has been a glorious feast, and I have read heaps of stuff recommended by my fellows, and I have also done my best to leave comments for the authors! This year, I wrote a Hanna story as a pinch hit called The Changeling. I was really pleased with it, as it answered a question the film rather pointedly glosses over. I do think my recipient enjoyed it heartily, but I also sense that the true wish of her heart was better answered by Cinaed's lovely Hanna/Sophie in this world of hope and risk. If you haven't seen Hanna, it's really worth your time. Saoirse Ronan is basically electrifying. I utterly believed that this little slip of a girl was fully capable of killing people twice her size with her bare hands, and really, just watching her walk around and LOOK at things with that innocent face was mesmerizing. And before this movie, I was scornful of Eric Bana, but. Um. When he fights off five men in a parking garage in a very tight suit... Just. Daaaaaaaaaaamn, boy. And you've probably already heard that the soundtrack is brilliant; the music during the container park fight scene makes you really feel Hanna's adrenaline rush. My main story was in a fandom I had actually asked for myself; sometimes that happens. Anyway, the kids have seemed pleased with it, and I was lucky enough to get one of my most effusive fan letters yet from yesdrizella. I'm pretty sure that if we ever met we would hold hands and jump up and down with squee about how rad Sassy and Rookie Mag and Daria are, so I think Pizza is a Vegetable counts as a success. Have a brilliant 2012, angelines, and get back to reading these gorgeous stories! Tags: yuletide
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I have been re-reading Sylvia Volk. In fact, I have read and re-read her stories, and every time I do I kind of want to punch her in the mouth, because she's fucking <i>thrilling</i> to read and etc., etc., what have you. Her Methos is my ideal and her fiction makes me swoon and the best feature of sendtokindle means that I can finally really learn almost every elegant letter of her rarified vocabulary with a touch. (Jesus, I mean. WORDS!)
Now, it seems to me, probably in the nineties or something (shut up, you, there, you giggling teenaged hoodlums) that she wrote something with a partner: Highlander, Methos is Kronos' second in command, and Kronos is a powerful man in... I want to say Greek society. Kronos is featured, although a fair section was from the POV of an original female character (the wife of Kronos, who also loves Methos, I think) and the other horsemen are there as well. There's a bacchanal every year, where Kronos' wife could choose another lover and give Kronos a child, but she always chooses Methos. There is a chariot race? And the chariot is on fire?
I don't know, but it was very fine and she seems to have taken it down - maybe it was published professionally, and if so I would be happy to buy it.
Anyone familiar with this? Who could I ask about it? I suppose Sylvia herself... Does anyone know her?
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If you make it funny, with witty banter and snappy one liners, I will love you the best. If you make it bittersweet and full evocative settings and lucid sensual detail, I will love you the best. If you write what you love, I will love it, I promise. Stranger Than Fiction If it had been a French film, Howard would have died at the end. But Howard Crick, who did not die, goes on to presumably make a life with Ana. Oh, make it ridiculous and sweet. Summary I imagine that Karen is anxious to know whether or not she might still have influence on Harold Crick's life. I also think Jules would play the part of reasonable temptation in the guise of simple, natural, harmless experimentation. "Oh, they could have a baby! Make it a girl, a redhead. What? People love babies!" I also don't think Penny or Ana would approve. Of course, can Karen ever write a book again without either a) bringing someone into existence just by thinking about them or b) hijack someone's life and submit them to her whims? How could she even find out? Sports Night I will never not want another Sports Night story. I love Dan so much, you guys. Summary Perhaps a POV piece from Kim? Dan being in love with Casey? Casey being terribly sweet and then a giant ass a moment later? Natalie plotting against someone? Hugs all around? I vote for hugs. Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner If you can cast Eugenides' shadow on the gritty stone walkways, please do so. Eugenides makes me want to scale a sheer rock wall with a knife in my teeth. Summary Oh, what if there are pirates... who are NOT from Eddis? Any news of Eugenides to tide us over? Gen will be preparing to go to war with his friends at his side... but I feel certain he will not be riding a horse into the fray. What clever misdeeds of derring do is out King getting up to? Daria I just re-watched the series recently, and I'd forgotten what a shitty girlfriend she is. How amazing that she could consistently be that awkward, that defensive, that righteous, that funny, that smart! Daria, for all her 2D Korean animated cells, was unbelievably real. The whole jealousy of Tom/dating Tom thing was fucking mindblowing. Jane is so rad, but like Tom says, she does come from a cooler world. Daria was just stuck here in the real world with the rest of us. <3 Summary In January, it will be ten years since Daria graduated high school. I'm sure she'd rather feed her hand to a woodchipper than attend a high scool reunion, but what's that crazy kid up to these days? How's the whole Morgendorffer clan? And of course, she's still buds with Jane... What's Trent doing these days? My main wish is to see Jane and Daria still dealing with life by leaning on each other. Slash is okey doke by me, but not at all necessary! Tags: yuletide
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Okay, so first let me take the time to sing the praises of Lean Cuisine Ravioli. It's like, $2.50 a box, and 220 calories (and, um, has 630 mg of salt, but I don't care about that) and I've eaten it basically at least twice a week for something like four years. Obviously it is not the perfect diet food, because I am still a chunk, but that is not Lean Cuisine's fault. That is my stonecold laziness and love of fried chicken. I hope they have good labor practices and that all their ingredients are made out of rainbows and free-range unicorns, because this is a vegetarian meal that has "Delicate ravioli stuffed with Ricotta, Mozzarella, Parmesan and Romano cheeses, then topped with a chunky tomato sauce accented with basil, onion and garlic." And I am just here to say that it is cheap and delicious and that sometimes you get a Bonus Ravioli (twice this week!) and one time? One magical time? I got NINE instead of the usual six. Naturally the package meal was still 220 calories. Of course. In other news, I had the most rad dream last night: in it, due South had continued to film until 2008. 2008, y'all! And Matt and I were going to watch them film this series finale movie that they had never gotten around to filming, and a surprisingly large portion of the movie was spent making Donal Logue the Sympathetic Bad Guy who is going to go head to head with Serious Bad News Bad Guy and turn him in to Fraser. Meanwhile, Ray Vecchio Mach One was coming back, and the fight scenes with Donal Logue were intercut with scenes of Vecchio looking conflicted and exhausted yet smokin' hot in a gray mock turtleneck, but you knew he was getting closer and closer to seeing Fraser again, Fraser who was hatless and hanging out with this 22 year old girl who was supposed to be a cross of Frannie and Meg somehow, and who was also wearing the Slave Leia costume for some perfectly logical undercover reason (my brain, I don't even know) and she hits on Fraser and he's like, fine, let's go, and then he's not Fraser in bed, he's Evil Douche Caricature Paul Gross, all big hair and kind of a gut and while it totally starts out hot and you're all surprised thinking, wow, maybe they DO have chemistry, but then he just becomes the most selfish horrid jerk in bed ever, and she shoves him out and she peels her socks off and throws them at him, crying and calling him Justifiable Names, and he returns to Fraser who feels like he just had a Jerk Blackout and blinks at her all ashamed and slinks off. Meanwhile, Vecchio is coming and will make everything all right. This actually never happens in the dream, because there is an interlude where the special effects team is doing cool things with fire and Donal Logue gets shoved into the water surrounded by a sheet of flame and the sea turns into a ciant beastly maw with teeth and it all looks really cool and not at all scary, although it really should be, and then while we're hanging in the sound stage, Donal Logue, suddenly ten years onlder with shorter hair and a gut and a trucker's cap shows up in the water in front of us and I reach out and tickle him and he hangs out with us a while, saying, "Hey, I sleep with the writer and I heard there were fans out here in The Tank, so I came out to say hey." That Donal Logue. What a nice fella. Then everyone in the cast was required to wear a pastel green or blue giant foam super basic, simple cartoony dinosaur suit (there were a lot of T Rexes and at least one Pterodactyl) for some CGI reason, and they're all running around, laughing and making dinosaur noises with their dinosaur hats on and it. Is just. The most adorable thing. Ever. You would have died. Honestly. There. Also, my sister-in-law moved in with us yesterday. If anyone knows of any jobs available in the nursing industry, give me a shout out and we will get her employed post-haste. Tags: dreamy, ds
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M. Pants is giving away Zombocalypse Now! Get one yourself and/or tell your pals! A note from M. Pants himself: Hi everyone,
HELP ME OUT BY DOWNLOADING A FREE EBOOK!
To help spread the word about Zombocalypse Now (my zombie choose-your-own-adventure in which you play the part of a stuffed bunny), I'm giving away 100 free copies of the Kindle edition today! </b>You don't need a Kindle to read it</b> (there's a free app for your PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet, or if you use Chrome or Safari you can read it right in your browser).
To get your free copy, leave your name and email here: http://bit.ly/pgbmSe and then just download the book when you get an email from Amazon.
And PLEASE tell your friends! The form is at my own site, so your email address won't get sold or used for anything nefarious (but use one that you don't mind Amazon having).
WHAT ELSE CAN I DO TO HELP?
I've actually dropped the Kindle price to 99¢ for today only (so I don't break the bank gifting books). So if you want to go all out, you could go straight to Amazon (http://amzn.to/qW1dV8 ) and buy it yourself (heck, if you had five bucks burning a hole in your pocket you could use the "Give as Gift" button to send a copy to your five awesomest friends). But that's above and beyond -- just by downloading it for free you're doing me a big favor!
Thanks so much!
Your friend (who loves you the most),
Matt
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