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True Confessions of a Reading Addict, or, Geographically Inspired Reading, Anyone?
Posted on September 11, 2010 24 Comments
There were so many ideas for posts that I had at the beginning of this six-week guest-blogging run, but alas, the ratio of time-to-blog versus topics-to-blog was lopsided in the extreme. Even so, it’s truly been an honor and a pleasure to stand on Scalzi’s Soapbox a couple of times a week over the past […]
A Conversation with Brett Warnock of Top Shelf Productions
Posted on September 10, 2010 4 Comments
Even if you’ve unfamiliar with the books published by Top Shelf Productions, odds are very strong that you’re familiar with big-budget Hollywood movies based on some of their books. Mind you, I don’t think that anybody in their right mind would argue that those movies are the equal of their source material, but it’s worth […]
Ode to Oregon, Including a Trio of Sunsets
Posted on September 6, 2010 17 Comments
I should begin by confessing that I’ll be stretching the definition of “sunset” pretty close to the breaking point with the pictures herein, but if you’ll forgive me that, let’s continue, shall we? I’m home after a glorious week spent in the Pacific Northwest with my wife and, though it’s good to be home, I’d […]
The Swell Season Ensure that Their Fans are Not Left ‘Alone Apart’
Posted on August 27, 2010 7 Comments
As if their abundant talent as artists weren’t admirable enough, in the wake of tragedy, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who perform together as the Swell Season, yesterday provided another reason to admire and respect them. Perhaps you may have heard that tragedy befell the band a week ago when, in the midst of their […]
Love ‘The Wire’ and ‘Toy Story’? This Post’s for You…
Posted on August 22, 2010 6 Comments
N.K.’s posting of Inception parodies the other day reminded me of what may very well be my favorite movie mash-up to date. For my fellow fans of both The Wire and Toy Story, especially those of you who aren’t represented as being among the nearly 300,000 hits the video has seen to date on YouTube, […]
Exciting News for Bryan Fuller Fans: Scripting a Pilot for SyFy
Posted on August 16, 2010 20 Comments
The news apparently broke last Thursday, but it only just came to my attention this morning that Bryan Fuller of Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me fame has signed on to write the pilot episode of what could become a new SyFy series. The pilot will be based on John Christopher’s 1969 SF novel The […]
I Heart Scott Pilgrim
Posted on August 12, 2010 18 Comments
As I sit down to write these words, I just got home from an advance screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Given that Scott Pilgrim is a) a movie, b) based on a comic I love by Bryan Lee O’Malley, and is c) steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, I expect you can probably guess […]
The Rumpus (“Busting at Its Seams” edition)
Posted on August 11, 2010 17 Comments
Since Scalzi kind of teed it up for me in his “Meet the Guest Bloggers” post by mentioning (and saying kind words about) the monthly-ish email he gets from me that’s filled with music recommendations, I have chosen to interpret that as encouragement to share one such missive with all of you. And since I […]
Herding Cats
Posted on August 9, 2010 21 Comments
I’m back from an excellent long weekend on the Jersey shore (the Gaslight Anthem show was fantastic, by the way, even though they didn’t play my favorite song, “I’da Called You Woody, Joe,” a.k.a. the finest tribute-in-song to Saint Joe Strummer ever written), and am reporting for guest blogging duty once again. I mentioned in […]
“Hey, Wasn’t there Supposed to be a Fourth Guest Blogger?”
Posted on August 3, 2010 32 Comments
Greetings, fellow citizens of Scalzi Nation! I feel like I should apologize for being so late to the guest blogger party, but since I was warned against beginning with an apology by a scene in the beautifully written, acted, directed, and generally note-perfect flick The Kids Are All Right just the other day, I’d better […]
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