I'd expected another day of relentless rain and sun. Instead, we got mostly sun. There was downpour near sunset,  but, all in all, a great relief after yesterday. Our high was 84F, with a heat index of 89F.

Muggy.

I was up at 6:30 a.m., and I did 1,007 words on something for the next Sirenia Digest. I'm going to get that done before going back to ( Read more... )

Overcast and chilly this morning. Again. Currently, it's only 54˚F. We've slipped back into March, with no real relief in sight. But at least it's green outside.

Yesterday was every sort of frustrating. I went back over sections of The Tindalos Asset with Spooky, and we talked plot, and I did some editing to what I wrote the day before. But not ( Read more... )

Last night's appearance at the North Kingstown Free Library in Wickford was actually quite a success. My thanks to Elizabeth Donovan for arranging it with the North Kingstown Arts Council. It wasn't even necessary to resort to discussing odontological evidence for an omnivorous diet among the Paleocene "Condylarthra" (polyphyletic) as opposed to ( Read more... )

Thank you, robyn_ma. I will now have the image of Tilda Swinton as Effie Trinket lodged firmly in my head for days to come. The fucked-up part is that it works. And that Tilda Swinton would, obviously, make a very sexy Effie Trinket. Yeah, it's messed up. (And I'll get back to you about the Hunger Games icon I actually want ( Read more... )

This isn't The Hunger Games icon I want, but I don't think the one I want exists, and I haven't had time to make it. So, this is my "placeholder."

If you've not read this article - "White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in The Hunger Games," by Anna Holmes - over at the New Yorker website, then you ought stop reading this silly and, ultimately ( Read more... )

First, another video from Keaton Henson, whose first album will be out on April 10th (the day before Alabaster: Wolves #1).

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And yeah, Aunt Beast is posting a fucking Taylor Swift video...sort of...because I like to think of it as this bow-tie Hunger Games video from the Civil Wars that Taylor Swift invaded. The Civil Wars are bow tie, by the way ( Read more... )

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A quick reminder: This evening at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST), Steve and I will be answering questions about Alabaster: Wolves via Twitter (#AlabasterComics). Also, we'll be giving away 10 FREE Digital copies of Alabaster: Wolves to participants that will be distributed when it becomes available on April 11th. Be there, kittens ( Read more... )

1) An Alabaster: Wolves update: On March 28th at 4pm Pacific Time, Steve Lieber and I will be answering questions LIVE on Twitter, hashtag #AlabasterComics. Here's the official announcement, with additional details. Note the FREE giveaways: 10 FREE Digital copies of Alabaster: Wolves to participants, to will be distributed when it becomes available ( Read more... )

It's a good damn thing The Hunger Games came along, so all the internet assholes who hadn't actually seen John Carter but were having so much fun tearing it apart now have a shiny new toy to break. They won't see The Hunger Games, either, of course, but that's the point ( Read more... )

For any idiots out there who might still harbor the myth (popular during the early '00s) that Tolkien was anti-semitic, please enjoy: "What’s classier than J.R.R. Tolkien telling off Nazis? Absolutely nothing. (via io9)

Meanwhile, thousands of dorks are blubbering in righteous indignation over the similarities between Battle Royale and The Hunger ( Read more... )