I can stand to watch exactly two films about Writers Writing: The Shining and Throw Momma From the Train.  I find the rest of them (yes, even Misery, which, aside from Cathy Bates,  is a pale imitation of the novel), to generally be trite, boring, pretentious or inaccurate to varying degrees.  (You don’t want to know how hard I hurled objects at ( Read more... )

Seeing the Iron Man 2 EW issue today made me realize how much I'm looking forward to it--Iron Man was the first superhero film I geuinely enjoyed since forever. I'm glad they found a suitable replacement Hollywood Weirdo to fill the void left by Jeff Bridges. I'm glad Don Cheadle is on board. Even ScarJo's In-soviet-russia-hairpiece-wears-you Black ( Read more... )

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Today was odd, up until about 5 p.m.  Mark and I went up to Tacoma to get Neil Gaiman tickets for his reading next month, but they weren’t on sale yet, so we went to Panera for an author playdate which was fine until A) the outlet that the Batcomputer was using stopped working ( Read more... )

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Hibernation Mode is what happens every time I get within a week or two of a deadline, even though I swear each time it won’t happen again.

Hibernation Mode means that there is nothing except the book. The book is god, and the book is love. Dishes go unwashed. Laundry goes ( Read more... )

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Your Score: Geek
You scored 60 out of 60


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I listen to a lot of music. Not all of it is good. Herewith, to fill space because it’s a holiday, are my top five guilty pleasure songs. I have belted out every one of these, usually in my car. Sometimes with passengers.

I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry.

1. Air Supply - “All Out of ( Read more... )

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Email exchange between my friend Sara and myself:

Sara: Captain America could kill a Nazi with a shrimp fork.

Me:Captain America could probably kill a Nazi with an actual shrimp.

I love that these are my friends.

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Iron Man is a remarkably entertaining film.

It’s also a remarkably effective and sly piece of anti-war and more importantly anti-war-profiteering propaganda.

It manages to make a narcissistic, conscience-free alcoholic genius not only likable but redeemable without a smidge of ( Read more... )

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Just got back from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Now, we all know there’s no way I’ll say anything bad about this film. It contains:

-Tim Burton directing
-Johnny Depp
-Helena Bonham Carter
-singing
-gore
-history
-Goths
-Alan Rickman acting sinister
-Bad ( Read more... )

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Er, ahem. I’m this week’s moderator at Fangs, Fur & Fey. Fear me. Bow down. Exterminate!

The day after tomorrow will see me donning a suit, Converse, glasses and preparing to save the universe by shouting things like “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!” I may/may not ( Read more... )