Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
So I’ve just got back my computer, after it was caught in a horrific flood of epic (inch-high) proportions… just in time to be in the middle of midterms. So I am slightly overworked at the moment. Next week is spring break, so hopefully I’ll get a blog or two up in that time.
If you [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Pirates, Salgari, Swashbuckling on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, in my many searches for the best in historical, swashbuckler-type adventure fiction, I have more than once stumbled across the name of Emilio Salgari–usually mentioned by native Italian-speakers who lament that they cannot share his greatness with their English-speaking friends. The premise behind his most popular character, Sandokan, stuck out to me especially: Sandokan [...]
Posted in Comics, Cool Stuff on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Today is Wednesday. New comic book day. Always a cause for celebration. But next Wednesday will be especially so, as it will see the release of the first of the Fantastic Comics #24, the first volume of the Next Issue Project that I gushed about awhile back.
But even better than that, I just the other [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
So, in the grand tradition of LibraryThing and GoodReads, I’ve just now discovered BookBump. It’s a website for keeping track of one’s books, but with even less of a social networking aspect than any of the others, it’s purely personal, as near as I can tell, and is essentially an iTunes for books. As you [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Gasp… sputter… incredulity… Why did no one tell me?!
Explains The New Yorker:
This long-lost novel by the nineteenth-century master of the swashbuckler was discovered in decidedly twentieth-century fashion, on microfilm in the National Library in Paris. A breathless seven hundred and fifty pages, the unfinished manuscript nominally concerns a young velvet-suited nobleman “whose pallor bespoke a [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
So, had I been the good little fact checker that I should be, I would have already noticed that the new Michael Chabon book that I mentioned the other day, Gentlemen of the Road, has in fact already finished its serializing in The New York Times Magazine. All things considered, that makes a lot more [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael Chabon has clearly stolen my idea… and I discover this fact on my birthday, no less!
Ok, no he hasn’t, and in fact I’m rather elated at the prospect of Gentlemen of the Road, his newest novel. (Although yes, it is really my birthday today. Rejoice.)
Essentially, Chabon has decided to take his “write about things [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Over at Classical Bookworm my eye was caught by a good way for us language nerds to kill some time, and actually do some good too. (Usually our ways of killing time and indulging love of words involve snarky back-biting… at least, mine do.). Poverty.com has a vocabulary game up that, apparently, donates 10 grains [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Cool Stuff, Pulp on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Nothing, that’s what.
Hello everybody, sorry I’ve been away so long, but midterms are over so perhaps I’ll be able to find a bit of time to do some fun reading, and then write about said reading. However, while I don’t have time at this moment to go on at too great a length in a [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I have made no secret of my great love for the works of E. E. “Doc” Smith. I am currently one book away from finishing his classic Lensman series, and still can’t get over the wonderful way that he merges incredibly cool and imaginative ideas, exciting storytelling, immense grandeur, and extremely fun corniness.
So I was [...]
Posted in Administrative, Blogroll, Cool Stuff, Flynn, Movies, Pirates, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Melody over at Redeeming Qualities has invented a holiday that warms me right to my little heart. So read the book, watch the movie, maybe save the life of a revolutionary, liberate a bunch of slaves, or sack Cartagena if you like, because it’s Captain Blood Day!
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Cool Stuff, Movies, Pirates, Swashbuckling on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t intended for this blog to become a look at only comic books and movies, I swear it. Prose coverage is, as always, in the works as well, and meant to be the bulk of what is done here. Nonetheless, I must share with you a cool new cover, and the greatest team-up of [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Rants on August 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I caught this over at Hidden Side of a Leaf, and figured what the hell. After all, I do love talking about myself, and right now I really need a break from trying to edit my own novel into a workable third draft.
(Editing, for those unaware, is where an author gets to forget all that [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Another Sabatini-related post for today. I just found a pretty great collection of Sabatini dustjackets that are worth a look for those who find such things interesting:
Rafael Sabatini Dustjacket Gallery
Some fun stuff there, not to mention a good way to discover more of the classic swashbuckling author’s books. Sure, I’ve seen lists of titles, but [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
… three months, and four days since the emancipation of humanity. And for most, it did them little good.”
Now that’s an opening. After all, it isn’t a space opera without SCALE (as Doc Smith would put it).
I’ve already gone on a bit about my experiences in getting myself a copy of Tobias S. Buckell’s second [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff on June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
So just today a post over at A Variety of Words brought a new website to my attention that I thought would be worth pointing out.
The basics are covered in that post, but what seems potentially interesting about Goodreads, when compared with LibraryThing, is that it’s attempting to be a sort of social networking site, [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am finally about to get my ever-so-grubby little hands on Tobias S. Buckell’s Ragamuffin–I’ve already discussed my driving desire to have this book, and why that desire was faced with a temporary roadblock, so understand that I am overjoyed. This is like a second Christmas. Or perhaps first Christmas, since June comes before December… [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Fairbanks, Movies, Pimpernel, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I certainly didn’t know that people had taken to posting public domain movies up on Google Video, but now that I do I figured I’d point it out.
First of all, the 1934 Scarlet Pimpernel that I mentioned the other day can be watched for free right here. Now, normally my problem with something like [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Librarything is a cool little, well, thing. I always feel weird plugging interesting websites because I can’t think of any way to do so without coming across as some kind of a spammer.
Nonetheless, my most wonderful mother introduced me to the site, and I got pretty damn addicted. If you’re into books (like me) and [...]
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