August 2011
July 2011
“[The puppeteer] is sweating right below my eyeline, trying to [reach] up to get...”
– Kristen Stewart on filming Breaking Dawn
I have not read a single Twilight book or seen a movie. I know the basics because of good ol’ wikipedia. I’m getting excited about doing a marathon of the films when Breaking Dawn reaches DVD.
30 Days of Sandman: Day 11
Favorite occupant of the boarding house (Doll’s House)?
I don’t love Doll’s House. It is over complicated (or feels so). It is the first real arc of Sandman so I get the sense that Gaiman was sorting out what he wanted to do and how to write it.
It also starts his fascination with characters gay characters (not counting … which I feel he plays stereotypically (at least on the...
30 Days of Sandman: Day 10
Favorite quote?
There are so many but it has been so long since I’ve read through it all. (On the other hand, I’ve read it through at least five times so there is that.)
I am particularly found of Matthew’s eulogy in The Wake. But I can’t find it online.
So let me settle for the one I actually remember off the top of my head.
“You lived what everyone gets. A...
30 Days of Sandman: Day 9
Who would you have given the Key of Hell to?
Oof. Some of these questions seem… silly.
The right choice was made. Give it to ‘Heaven’, as it were.
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Earwolf Challenge: Week #3
mattlittle:
So week 3 is now complete…Left Handed Radio lives to see another challenge!
After falling into the bottom three last week, we were freaking out a bit while prepping material for this challenge. We questioned a lot of what we do and how we do it, and I don’t think it was from a standpoint of “OH GOD we don’t know what we’re doing,” but rather “we NEED to be able to step up and stay...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallery: Fictional... →
Great list!
nerd-gasms:
There are certain themes/stylistic choices that are probably going to make me love your story/TV show/movie/web short. I mentioned yesterday that I had recently made a list of these (I make a lot of lists) and Christina/Novazembla asked what they were. Well it’s TMI Tuesday so I’m going to pretend…
30 Days of Sandman: Day 8
Favorite Title for Dream?
I guess I’ll keep it simple and go with Morpeus.
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Vulture: Stop Talking About Turning TV Shows Into... →
Yes, please. Come on, people. Learn to let go.
wilwheaton.tumblr.com →
Always.
talkingbreakfast:
Got your back, Wil.
wilwheaton:
I posted this earlier on G+. I’m posting it here, and also at my blog, because I think it’s important.
On the way out of the Syfy party on Saturday night, a pretty horrible thing happened. I wasn’t going to talk about it in public, but I can’t stop thinking about it, and I think this needs to be said. If you camp out in front of...
30 Days of Sandman: Day 7
Pick a realm. (Dream, Hell, Heaven, Asgard, Faerie, etc.)
Gonna go with Dream but mostly because it is the most defined. I love the idea of geography of somewhere that is both ever shifting and infinite. Maps of the unmappable.
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Because I posted it late Saturday night and you... →
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Ben would be naked.
And Maggie would be dressed as a raven.
Saw HP & The Deathly Hallows Pt 2 Tonight
And all I want to do is rant about both it and Deathly Hallows the book. I hate holding things to standards of “what it could have been”… but, man, that movie left me feeling… unaffected. Some of it was the movie, most it are the problems of the book.
So you get to look forward to a nice rambling post tomorrow on the subject.
30 Days of Sandman: Day 6
Who is your favorite Endless and why?
Joshua Norton from “Three Septembers and a January.”
First, I was not aware of the Emperor of the United States until I read this story. Actually, it was a while after I read the story until I realized he was based on a real person.
He also is in a “gods’ wager” genre of story. Trading Places with the Endless in the Mortimer...
30 Days of Sandman: Day 5
Cast the miniseries! Who would you cast to play each of the Endless?
Oof. This one is gonna be hard. I’ve looked at a few dozen other cast lists and I don’t love any them.
Here’s my issue: I don’t think it’s filmable. I love Sandman for its arc and you can’t stick it in a movie. Even a mini-series (Season of the Mist would have to be four hours.) How about a...
30 Days of Sandman: Day 4
Favorite story from Worlds’ End?
(The list has it as “best.” SUBJECTIVE! It also get the apostrophe in the wrong place… which is important.)
Easy. “Cerements.”
There are some many things I love about this story of a city of the dead. The concept, the details, so much.
But mostly it is how embedded this story is. We have someone telling a story of about...
30 Days of Sandman: Day 3 (which should have been...
Favorite DC comic’s guest appearance?
Blarg. Not a great question since I feel the book found its groove when it realized it had no need to really be tightly connected to the rest of the DC universe.
But, hell, along those lines, I’m gonna say John Dee/Doctor Destiny in 24 Hours. Not that he does much in it, but that is the issue where Gaiman really embraces the potential horror of...
You know what would be awesome?
If you could block an anonymous messenger. It wouldn’t tell you who they are and wouldn’t force you to stopping all anonymous messages, but block a particular person from sending you messages.
That would be grand, wouldn’t it?
Follow up...
In a reblog of totallymorgan on Tuesday, I said I was going to make something for zazzle that would be awesome.
I didn’t make it because I did a search, and not surprising someone else had already made a tote bag that said “Not Penny’s Tote.”
I would have made the design simpler but whatever.
I would design something else, but zazzle does not allow printing on goats,...
