You haven’t seen Spider-Man 3 yet? It’s skippable. You really want to go? Try a matinee. As I said to D on Friday, it’s not so much about “what happens next” as it is “some stuff happens.” She called it…
Category: writing
Gone in 120 Seconds
D and I saw Next last night, and it’s a good thing we didn’t pay for it. (I used two AMC Gold passes I’d received as a thank-you for a special project at work.) The premise is intriguing–a man who…
“Love Lucy”
My fourth 365 tomorrows story has been published: Love Lucy I’m always fascinated by the forum discussions, wherein I learn just how different my work looks to other people. This story was inspired by LUCYinLA’s video blog on YouTube, the…
I Am Not Stalking John Scalzi
So what if I happened to attend his talk at Google last Friday, and also wandered into his panel at the Festival of Books on Sunday? You can’t prove nothin’. While we were down in Los Angeles, D and I…
“It’s Raining 300 Men”
I love video mash-ups. Speaking of 300, over at Kung Fu Monkey, screenwriter John Rogers has an interesting perspective on the arguably “anti-American” sentiments that keep popping up in the movie–the relevant post is subtitled “Why does King Leonidas hate…
How Buffy Changed My Life
I just entered Dark Horse Comics’ “Buffy the Vampire Slayer is My Life” essay contest, and I don’t expect to win, because my 215 words aren’t really on-topic. But it’s what I felt at the time, so here’s my entry,…
” ‘sweetcheeks’ was somehow not in my spellcheck’s dictionary. YOU BEST BELIEVE I HELLA FIXED THAT “
I love Dinosaur Comics. In case you’re wondering, the title of this blog post is the title used in the RSS feed for yesterday’s comic. One of the many great things about Dinosaur Comics is how much extra content comes…
United States Patent Application: 0060259306
It’s titled “Business method protecting jokes” and was granted on November 16, 2006. Bonus meta points for repeatedly using “homoproprietary” to describe itself. Do you really need further proof that the U.S. patent system is broken?
4×4-Letter Reviews
It’s been a while since I reviewed things, so here are four quick capsules for things that, coincidentally, all have four-letter names: SPIN, the Hugo Award-winning novel by Robert Charles Wilson: I stayed up until three or four in the…
Simile of the Day
“[T]his thing has me giggling like a 12 year old girl sucking on a My Little Pony hash pipe.” Thank you, Kung Fu Monkey. I think. ~CKL