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Happy Thanksgiving, Clint--the first one's a tap-in but man, the turn on the second was something else. Watch this:
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Is... Before I get to that (you probably already know what it is), some random notes of literary and/or scientific interest: Flannery O'Connor's Complete Stories wins the National Book Award of National Book Awards (sort of the way Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker of Bookers a few ...
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Philip K. Dick
io9 has a cool rundown of the history of the tie-in novel , marred only by the fact that it doesn't mention me.
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Amazon still says it's not out yet , but well-informed sources indicate otherwise. That Dennis Calero cover is purty, isn't it? And Tomm Coker's interior art (of which you can see samples here , among other places) is beautiful. Hie ye to your Local Comic Shop and check it out.
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Because of this abominable series of actions (on Thierry Henry's part) and inactions (on the part of the officiating crew who missed two handballs and a clear offsides), France is in the World Cup. Because of their gutty playoff win against Egypt in Egypt's favored neutral site in the ...
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In this upcoming World Cup year, I have (in addition to a bunch of other stuff including D&D; and Transformers novels, as well as original stories) three Iron Man projects coming out. First comes Iron Man: Virus , coming at the end of January: In the clear blue skies above Long Island, two ...
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For a while I was convinced that the story of Joe Gaetjens , who scored the only goal in the US' famous 1-0 victory over England at the 1950 World Cup and then later died at the hands of Papa Doc Duvalier and/or the Tonton Macoutes, was just about the most interesting soccer biography around. ...
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I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but this audio version of Batman: Inferno is a blast so far. Makes the commute fly by; if you don't believe me, listen to a sample . (Also kind of makes me want to write other Batman stuff, especially if I get to play with the Joker again...)
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In this conversation with the Wall Street Journal (mostly about the upcoming movie based on his novel The Road *), Cormac McCarthy says, "I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing." I don't know ...
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Cormac McCarthy
Over at Jeff VanderMeer's Ecstatic Days, there was an interesting conversation about genre and tie-in fiction. As someone who has written quite a bit of both, I found the points raised both familiar and interesting all over again. Here's one, about the number of prominent writers of original ...
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I walk to the computer store intending to buy new headphones. I pause outside the door of the computer store, certain that if I buy new headphones I will immediately find my old headphones. I walk away from the computer store, putting my hand in my coat pocket. In my coat pocket I discover my ...
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Apparently the meteor that caused this bolide was only the size of a tricycle. Kind of amazing that five cameras just happened to be pointing at that part of the sky...
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One of the primary reasons given for their opposition to marriage equality by the 53% of the Maine electorate who voted yes on Question 1 yesterday was the boogeyman of gay marriage being taught in school as part of a larger effort on the part of those conniving 'mos to indoctrinate our innocent ...
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See, what I'm wondering is how come people are reinventing the language for the channels of SMS and Twitter when all you need to do is look at the correspondence between, say, Olson and Creeley to note that a perfect shorthand was already there? I will always prefer 'yr' to 'ur.' Just saying.
