Now as the twilight’s doubtful interval
Closes with night’s accomplished certainty,
A wizard wind goes crying eerily,
And on the wold misshapen shadows crawl,
Miming the trees, whose voices climb and fall,
Imploring, in Sabbatic ecstacy,
The sky where vapor-mounted phantoms flee
From the scythed moon impendent over all.
Twin veils of covering cloud and silence, thrown
Across the movement and the sound of [...]
I had a friend ask me a few days back for recommendations of works of historical fiction by more-or-less modern authors. I happen to be quite ready for this question, since I enjoy knowing things, and I find well-written historical fiction one of the easiest ways to absorb the details of history. Fiction, by definition, [...]
“Demanding a significant investment of time and energy on the part of the consumer, it [the book] has always fit somewhat awkwardly into the world of mass entertainment.”
You know, it seems like every one of these “end of publishing” articles has a couple of nuggets in it. Like Englehart’s noticing that the book is a [...]
“Books are not Hollywood, to the general astonishment of agents and corporate suits. They are intimate, unpredictable agents of delicious rebellion.”
I’m not sure I buy the thesis in Osborne’s piece, but I really would like the believe I live in the world that this quote from it describes.
You know, I don’t think I ever really realized just how creepy the whole button-eyes thing in Coraline is until just now.
I whipped that up with the tool at the page for the forthcoming Coraline movie. Sarah’s going to love that pic when she sees it. (I bought Coraline for myself when it came out, [...]
So, we know that I like Revelations, especially some of the bits at the end, and especially including God’s no-modifications open license.
We also know that I like Hal Duncan, and especially when he’s being his most over-the-top flagrantly intellectual.
You might not know that I have a sentimental affection for historical surrealists and Burroughs, and thus, [...]
Speaking of a geek hierarchy…
As I’ve mentioned quite a few times here, I buy a significant number of comics. One thing I have almost entirely managed to avoid, though, is the purchase of dolls. Every month there are literally hundreds of “action figures” and “statues” solicited in the Diamond Previews catalogue, and mostly I sneer at them–yes, I know, [...]
So, it seems my post about getting the swank edition of From Hell, has caught the attention of Eddie Campbell himself, and he tells some of the story of how that edition came to be. Another great side effect of this is that a couple of the other owners of the swank edition put up [...]
I’ve made no secret of the fact that Eddie Campbell is one of my favourite comic creators–not to mention one of the top five living people I’d want to spend a night drinking and talking BS with, and that I think Alan Moore is probably the best comic writer to have yet lived.
So it’s probably [...]
A few years back I made this statement on the blog:
I have read everything Graham Joyce has ever published, and none of them have been less than excellent.
Well, in the intervening years, a few more books have been published, but the statement remains true. In fact, if anything it’s more true for the book I [...]
So, irony–I spent ten consecutive days in all day meetings in Boston, and what are the things that are the important concrete results of the trip for me (as opposed to my employers)?
A signed book, and a signed CD.
Important persistent result number one, is this:
Amanda, as she apparently always does, stayed after the show to [...]
I may have made my generally negative feelings on adaptations of certain works to the big screen known in the past. This occurred to me at the Bond flick tonight, both in the context of the movie (which was fine on its own, and is best not considered in relation to the story it’s named [...]
So, if someone told me I would enjoy reading a short fiction piece entitled Talking To God, I would be skeptical. If they told me it was found on a site entitled “The Ragged Trousered Philosopher“, I might be more inclined to believe them. And I would have been right to do so. Good piece. [...]
You may also remember my pleasant surprise at how much I enjoyed Titan’s first collection of Nemi strips. I’ve been reading the strips online fairly religiously since. The second collection of strips also showed up today, and I’m quite looking forward to going through it to see which, if any, of the strips collected in [...]
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