Video Found: Clash of the Titans Trailer!
First, it’s been forever and a day since the last time I saw the original, and so the news that Hollywood is remaking this classic is both exciting and terrifying. While the trailer looks gorgeous, it could turn into another of those films that is only that (i.e. like Transformers 2). We’ll see if they […]
Weak Prose and Boredom
I’m finding myself becoming more and more bored by the style of prose exemplified by the contemporary mainstream publishing model. Not all of it bores me, and I don’t think most of it is bad, per se, but there are times when I will read a book and find myself wondering why I’m reading it […]
Random News For 12/11/09 (Peter Watts, Interviews, and Randomness)
Some interesting things have happened today. First, there is an interview with me up on the Outer Alliance blog that you all might want to check out. They asked me some questions about dealing with anti-gay hatred and Survival By Storytelling Magazine, among other things. It’s fairly brief, but well worth checking out. Probably the […]
Payfail: The SF/F Pay Rate Fiasco
(I’d like to add that @maplemuse from Twitter has a blog post that actually takes a very level-headed approach to the Black Matrix problem. I agree with most of the assessments made there, to be honest. The distinction between 4theluv and profit is important to make in this case.) A lot has been said recently […]
Why is font size so important to a good book?
Something I am starting to get really irritated about these days are books with ridiculously small font. I can understand the need to use small font for particularly large books, but I cannot for the life of me get through books with fonts so small I have to wear my glasses in order to see […]
UPS Fails Hard
I’ve been expecting a couple packages the last week or so and, to my surprise, today I received an interesting little postcard from UPS. Here’s what it says: We are unable to complete delivery because:CORRECT STREET # NEEDED. NOT DELIVERED. The curious part? The postcard came to my mailbox, the same address the package in […]