The N Game: I’m trying to figure out why the so-called N-word has become the one word you cannot say anywhere, under any circumstances. Now, crawl off that high horse. I’m not defending Michael Richards’ rant, but if you’d seen it you certainly believe that this was a man who completely and indefensively lost it in public. He appeared to be dangerous, and not in the Michael O’Donoghue / Saturday Night Live sense of the word. Any audience...
Reality – Not Politics: Famed writer Alan Moore will be appearing on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. Given his well-known and admirable commitment to faithful adaptations, Alan will be dying himself yellow and chopping off a finger from each hand....
Closing a LOT of windows: All sorts of stuff before I do a major backup and upgrade... and I wonder I why keep these windows open, just so I can get around to blogging them. WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Early Science Fiction Fanzines: A Cover Gallery: So you can see all the scary drawings...
The Joke I didn't get to tell Harlan last weekend: Guy goes to a doctor's office. Doctor says, "I have bad news for you. You have advanced pancreatic cancer and early stage Alzheimer's." Guy says, "Damn. Well, at least I don't have cancer."...
Proof that booze is good for you!: Vodka drip saves poisoned Italian - Yahoo! News: SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian doctors used an intravenous feed of vodka to keep an Italian tourist alive after he consumed large quantities of a poisonous substance. ADVERTISEMENT The 24-year-old man, in an...
Reopening in October...: ...over at ComicMix, with all new stories. Hope to see you soon. The first round is on us. Actually, from now on, all the rounds are on us-- the stories will be free....
Now in Print: The life of a book can happen in a seeming instant or gestate for a really long time. In the end, though, you get the finished product and can’t help but marvel at it. On September 28, 2006 I was...
In Praise of Gene Colan: The first time I saw Adam Austin’s artwork, I was floored. It was his second issue of Tales of Suspense and the work was stunning. From Iron Man, I followed him to Daredevil but by then he was using his...
Win a copy of "Tigerheart": Go to the Fantasy Book Critic website and see how. http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com PAD...
Hey. Oliver Stone.: According to "Entertainment Weekly," you still haven't cast Dick Cheney in your film "W" about George W. Bush (a film, I have to admit, I'm looking forward to seeing.) You complain about the considerable number of older Hollywood actors who...