Several months ago the most righteous badass Carter Reid, who had been tapped to run the art show at Salt City Steamfest, pleaded with me to provide some pieces for said art show as he was worried that it was going to end up an anemic embarrassment. I committed to providing three assemblage pieces by the…
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Movies Seen Recently: Addams Family Values, Age of Dinosaurs, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Addams Family Values (1993) — One of those rare cases in which a sequel (by which I mean something that wasn’t planned before production of the initial movie) is a fitting companion to the original. I’m guessing that Raul Julia’s death in 1994 is the only thing that kept a third theatrical feature from happening…
Bleached Bones: New Book Cover.
Cover work I did for a friend of a friend. Quite a good book, too. (The ebook’s been available for a while, but I’m posting it now because I just finished up the front-and-back cover for print.)
Critter.
Since the last time I posted, I’ve been to Westercon, went on a two-week vacation to eastern Canada (and had a deer jump through the side window of the minivan in Maine), gotten released from our ward’s bishopric, and generally puttered around. But instead of telling you about any of that in detail, I’ll just…
Westercon schedule!
Cutting it fine, yes, but here’s my schedule at Westercon this weekend: Thursday, 1 pm: Starcrash (an MST3K-style riffing) Friday, 11:30 am: Science Fiction/Fantasy Media Tie-Ins Saturday, 2:30 pm: Lousy Book Covers Saturday, 6pm: Tag Team Jeopardy & The Avenue of Awesomeness Just about any other time, I’ll be at the table I’m sharing with…
Pain.
Ever notice how, when you catch some sort of mental insight, all of its profundity dissolves into wet cotton candy when you try to render it in words? Keep that in mind as you read the following; I know that what I’m about to explain sounds both clunky and obvious to many, and my only…
The Eye of the Creature: Admitting Defeat Retreat.
As I think I mentioned here (and if I didn’t well, I thought it awful loud), I started writing a novel on the morning of the first day of LTUE. The title was The Eye of the Creature: A Novel of B-Movie Weirdness, and my proclaimed intent was to have it finished, published, and ready…
Movies Seen Recently: Mongolian Death Worm, The Addams Family, Attack From Beneath
Mongolian Death Worm (2010) – Sean Patrick Flanery (Young Indiana Jones himself) plays, appropriately enough, a slightly scuzzy treasure hunter in present-day Mongolia (as represented semi-convincingly by Texas) searching for Genghis Khan’s lost tomb; he and some Peace Corps-ish doctors run afoul of the giant worm-thingies awakened by a local plant’s attempts at oil shale separation. Compared…
New book: Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply
The first print collection of my webcomic CheapCaffeine is now available: Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply. Plus, if you buy it directly from me at a convention (my next one is Westercon, coming up over the Independence Day weekend), you’ll get the “Special Sketch Edition,” in which I will sketch a doodle of whatever you…
Twenty years ago today…
…our first child Alex, who could not be pried from Michele’s womb with a crowbar on Friday, finally came out on Monday. There’s a paradigm shift that comes with your first child. You are now not living for yourself; you cannot. And it’s very different than a married couple living for each other, because the…