Zesty, mint flavored blood. That’s right, it’s time for another show with blood. The effects in this show are significantly easier, which makes me a happy camper. One stabbing and one razor cut. All fairly run of the mill. BUT. I’m in tech week for two different shows for the next week. I will be […]
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This is a beautifully manipulated short with a paper puppet. Now, I have to say that though I think this is really well done, it disappointed me. Let’s sum up. Puppet comes to life. Discovers world. Discovers that it is a puppet. Dies. I was really excited when the video started, because it is beautifully
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By now you know my love of things folding. This box is an amazing design. Casulo, the brilliant, modular setup designed by Marcel Krings & Sebastian Mühlhäuser, hides furnishings enough for an entire room — or, heck, an entire apartment — in a small 31″x47″ (that’s 80 cm x 120 cm) box. Two people can
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March Fourth Marching Band has this amazing music video with shadow puppets that I’m totally in love with. Should you have any doubts about watching it, you should know that one of the title cards says, “Meanwhile in Deep Space…” How can you pass that up? Seriously. This is one of the hottest uses of
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A mashup of Hamlet and American pie which amuses us. A long, long time ago I can still remember How, alas, poor Yorick’s jokes drew groans He’d dance and sing and kiss my hand Like Elsinore was Neverland But then he went and joined the Skull and Bones
I was in Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The (1999) with Bill Barretta (I) Bill Barretta (I) was in Murder in the First (1995) with Kevin Bacon. Who knew?
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Last night, the generous Ellen Datlow, invited me down to try some of her extensive collection of single malts. Rather than trying to get through twelve of them in an evening, we focused on the Islays. Goodness… it was a lovely, lovely evening. Here they are in order of tasting. If you click through to
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Today is the last day to get your submissions in for Shimmer’s Clockwork Jungle Book special issue. This is going to be a spectacular issue. Just wait until you see the art… So, hurry. Finish that story and submit.
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The intarwebs use the word sockpuppet to mean someone who has created a character for the purpose of supporting his or her arguments by pretending to be someone else. Let’s take a look at that term, shall we? Most puppets fall into five basic categories broken down by the method in which they are manipulated.
The first thing you should know when you call hardware stores in NYC to see if they have axes, is that all of them, without exception, will ask you who you are planning on killing. The second thing you should know is that after you pick up the axe, you will have no problems finding
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So, that box the post office tried to deliver yesterday wasn’t Shimmer. It contained my contributor copies The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, volume two. Keen! I want to give a shout out Mike Munsil, who created Liberty Hall Writers, an online group that does weekly flash challenges. My story, “Evil Robot Monkey” came
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I arrived home today to a flurry of compliments about the art issue of Shimmer and a slip from the post office saying that they were sorry they’d missed me. Curses! Now I must wait still longer to see this issue. Sure, sure… I’ve been looking at the galleys and such, but it’s different when
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This very interesting, but too short article talks about the use of sailing ships to reduce carbon emissions. An excerpt: French vineyard owners are returning to a slower pace of life by starting to export their wine by sailing boat – a method last used in the 1800s – to reduce their carbon footprint. Later
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We just got home from the Oscar party at Jodi and Sam’s. It’s an annual affair with them and quite the soirée. This year was a little odd for me. Somehow, I managed to miss seeing all but two of the films on the awards tonight. I saw Golden Compass and Sweeney Todd. That’s it.