Thanks @bergopolis! Now get back to writing #leverage. 😉 ~CKL
Year: 2009
The Stigma of Self-Publishing, Part 1: Daemon
You may have read last year’s Wired article about the novel Daemon, detailing how three agent rejections discouraged first-time novelist Daniel Suarez so much that he started his own company to publish and market his half-baked techno-thriller. You may also…
Warren Does Joe
If you want to give your tired old media property a badass reboot, Warren Ellis is clearly the man to call. He helped elevate Ultimate Fantastic Four, and now he’s done it again with G.I. Joe: Resolute, the new animated…
The Trouble With Reaper
I like Reaper a lot. It’s one of the few TV shows D and I both like enough to pay for (we download all our TV a la carte from iTunes or Amazon). And I appreciate that it’s not to…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Customer Surface”
What if there was a store like Fry’s Electronics, only it sold magical implements instead of technological ones? Would cash-poor aspiring wizards still take advantage of the “Fry’s rental plan” (very lenient 30-day return policy)? Would dealing with their low-paid,…
With the Shopping and the Dropping and the Never Stopping
After suffering a variety of unresolved problems with my laptop over the last few months, I will probably never buy a Lenovo machine again. Thinkpads were good, solid hardware when IBM owned the brand, but now they’re living down to…
State of Play
Capsule: a smart, well-paced thriller which also reminds us that, yeah, Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck are good actors, too. D decided we should take Monday off and go see a movie in the afternoon. She gave me a choice…
Nathan Fillion: King of Castle
Castle gets a lot of things wrong. It wildly misrepresents–or, at best, cherry-picks–the experience of being a bestselling novelist or a New York City detective. But damn that smarmy motherfucker Nathan Fillion. He’s just so entertaining to watch. Also, as…
Physics in Action
Well, what do you know? Light does travel faster than sound! http://vimeo.com/4171907 Thanks to the Leverage crew for putting on this Tax Day demonstration in downtown Portland. I much prefer exploding cars to teabaggers. ~CKL