So I guess I missed this yesterday (dayjob is insane), but it's worth pointing it out to anyone else who might've missed it: fantasy author Michele Lee showed her 7-year-old daughter - a big fan of comic book superheroine Starfire - part of the new comic book Starfire was in. It's worth you checking out.

A lot of people are complaining in the ( Read more... )

At least, according to this NY Times review of "A Game of Thrones." Because nobody in her book club demands that they read "The Hobbit" instead of something by Lorrie Moore. (Who?) Apparently, Bellafante needs to join a different book club? Preferably one with bogwitch64 or in it?

Annalee Newitz at io9 has what I assume is a brilliant takedown (it has ( Read more... )

So...calling your parents up, or your in-laws, and telling them "Hey, guess what? EMMA'S PREGNANT!"

Maybe not the best idea?

Also, damn you, April Fool's! I was kind of excited when I saw Scalzi had a Fantasy book coming out.

Anything fool you today? Or make you smile?

Turns out the episode of Superspiff and the Toothpick Kid early yesterday morning had some...editing issues in it.  Mostly you get to hear me say something like bleewagjalblah (which is the sound I make after I've inserted my foot in my mouth), reread a sentence, then rewrite and read the rewritten sentence.  So I pulled it this morning, and will ( Read more... )

Snipped by from CNN.com, oddly enough. 
After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella, the tens of thousands who couldn't be there ran to YouTube for a peek. Everyone was quickly denied -- even Radiohead ( Read more... )

Last week I made a post about one of the young actor's claiming he never had the script or the story of the Kite Runner adaptation.  Now the movie's director, Marc Foster, has debunked the claim.  However, there's still fear that the child actors may be in danger, so the movie's release date has been shifted back over a month and the story painted ( Read more... )

There's an interesting article on CNN about the film adaptation of The Kite Runner, which I'm nearly done reading.

I'm of two minds about the article.  First, why the hell wasn't the kid or the kid's family ever given the entire script to read before the filming started?  The whole thing could've been avoided if the kid and his family said, "No, ( Read more... )