– Reheated Tweets for 01-13-2012 thru 01-19-2012 – http://t.co/xoZDEz1d 2012-01-20 listening to 'They Oughta Write a Song' by Halie Loren http://t.co/8ksDxrdT 2012-01-20 40,000 words on "Black Tears." Milestone! #amwriting 2012-01-20 Progress has slowed down because of a lot of how-do-I-get-from-here-to-there musing. And boiler research. 2012-01-20 I just got for free: 'Cyberdrome (a science [...]
In describing last week’s cliffhanger, I failed to mention one interesting fact: When the sound of the gong awakens the Fire Dragon and Aura’s men drop Flash’s stretcher and run away, Princess Aura screams.
I mention this because, as far as I recall, this is the first time Aura has done so. Dale does [...]
Well, this is embarrassing. I purposefully avoided X-Men: First Class for a variety of reasons I hope I’ve explained in past X-reviews. Come to find out, not only is it better than it has any right to be, not only … Continue reading →
– Reheated Tweets for 01-06-2012 thru 01-12-2012 – http://t.co/xyUY7BmJ 2012-01-13 listening to 'Behind the Closed Eye' by Anuna http://t.co/2UvU2UNQ 2012-01-13 No work on the novel today. Leaving the laptop home while it completes a checkdisk of an external drive. #amnotwriting 2012-01-13 Photo: Ankle biters. http://t.co/wdQswEoa 2012-01-13 Photo: Flickrous: Pleasure in Pain http://t.co/2ieNWfvf 2012-01-13 [...]
I’ve read two of my friend Dave Butler’s unpublished/on the market novels, which are terrific alternate-history epics (one is a “black powder fantasy” in a magical America, the other is steampunk Mormons). Hellhound on My Trail is different in these ways:
It’s shorter, just under 37,000 words, meant to be the first installment in [...]
Written, I believe, by Mike Kupari (co-author of Dead Six with Larry Corriea) and passed along by Brad Torgersen, Writers of the Future winner. (Salty language, for which I do not apologize. I didn’t write it, but I agree with it.)
You didn’t care when the government decided it could spy on you without [...]
Me: That external drive doesn’t sound good.
Computer: Which one?
Me: The F: drive. It’s clicking.
Computer: It’s fine.
Me: It sounds ominous.
Computer: It’s always been kind of noisy, though. Anyway, I’m running Windows 7, so I’m always right. It’s fine.
Me: Could you check, though?
Computer: Okay, I’ll check. … It’s fine.
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The external drive on which I store my gazillion image files is showing all the signs of immanent failure. Until its replacement arrives from Amazon, I’m going to leave it unplugged and dormant, which means that we’re going to have a wee vacation here at Pulp of the Day until next week or later. It’s [...]
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In honor of a great man and his birthday we present the speech they should’ve told you about in school. Oh yes, I say it plain: this is “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence.” “And we are now … Continue reading →
As long time readers know, I love Indian special effects extravaganzas, movies starring Shahrukh Khan, and thinly veiled retellings of the Ramayana, so yes, I was really looking forward to Ra.One (2011). It isn’t quite what I was expecting, thoug…
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One of the most notorious failings of serial features is the “recap cheat.” Each new chapter begins with the last few seconds of footage from the last one, to refresh the audience’s memory of what was going on when we got cliffhung. The cheat occurs when the [...]
There is a very strange character named Gromozeka, who is a six-armed cyborg (or possibly alien) on roller skates. Obviously meant as comic relief, Gromozeka is fairly bipolar and persnickety, and he’s also an archaeologist. Yep.
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