(Yeah, I know I’m writing about Scott Pilgrim a lot right now — for whatever reason, it’s providing me a lot of thinking fuel, so I’m using it. Also, it’s helping me deal with some of the requests a publisher sent me for revisions on Hidden Things, which makes the whole Scott Pilgrim oeuvre very [...]
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Scott Pilgrim, the books and the movie, a mostly spoiler-free mulling-over
((This post is basically just me being unable to get all my thoughts to fit into Twitter-sized posts. Deal.)) We’ve really enjoyed the Scott Pilgrim comics around Casa Testerman, and I was excited (and determined) to see the six-book series to its conclusion prior to seeing the movie. Dave was nice enough to cart the [...]
Stories within Games
“That,” Kate said, her face lit with a kind of bemused, awestruck, lopsided grin, “was the best damn movie I’ve seen in a long time.” The context? This was last week. She had just finished playing Mass Effect 1. For pretty much as long as there have been computer games, people have debated their value, [...]
Elephant Fight: the Macmillan-Amazon scorched earth offensive
(Author’s Note: Chuck has a calmer assessment of this situation. I get worked up about this stuff. If that offends, I highly recommend his post.) All right. Wow. There’s a lot to talk about here. First, Backstory Once upon a time, the five major publishers in the country decided they wanted to sell their ebooks [...]
Everything One thing I Know about Writing I Learned from MMOs
Once upon a time, I was a pretty hard core MMO raider. Now, I’ve been playing MMOs since long before they were called that (or had graphics) and I’ve enjoyed almost all the time I’ve spent on such pastimes, but I’m not talking about the play of MMOs in general — just about a very [...]
Avatar: my thoughts, my opinions, my recommendation
… and my background: with the exception of Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, I’ve seen all of James Cameron’s movies at least three times. Yeah, even Titanic (though the third time was against my will). Understand that simple fact about me first: I’m pretty much the guy’s target audience. Kate and I went to see [...]
Extracting the Signal from the Noise
Over on Twitter today, I linked to three of the seven parts of an analysis of the Phantom Menace that was posted over on YouTube, and which I initially found on /Film: 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The reason I didn’t link to all seven videos? I didn’t want that to [...]
