Happy Ash Wednesday!

What, you thought we’d go with Bruce Campbell?
Oh, all right…

But we’re not doing Pokémon. We have our pride, dammit.

What, you thought we’d go with Bruce Campbell?
Oh, all right…

But we’re not doing Pokémon. We have our pride, dammit.
The publisher says this is an adult book, but it’s about young people (nineteen; at my age nineteen is very young) figuring out what they want out of life and how to live in the world, so it’s at least thematically appropriate for not-quite-adult readers. I’m tagging it thus; complain in comments if you think…
Today we solemnly observe the 91st anniversary of the end of the Great War, and the veterans of all wars, great and small. Take a moment to pause and remember for those in Flanders Fields who cannot. Making Light remembers better than most.
News about Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan film franchise has unfolded faster than one of the author’s fictional terrorist plots. First came word that Sam Raimi was dropping out of the planned Ryan relaunch, then a report that the film was still a go ahead despite the director’s departure. Now, Moviehole reports that The Dark Knight…
Okay, who’s to blame? Somebody has to be responsible – stands to reason. I mean, it’s always somebody’s fault. We’re not that somebody, you and me, so it has to be one of them! The hippies. The nonconformists. The others. Them! Take this nonsense about global warming or climate change or whatever they’re calling it…
Ghost World: the Special Edition Graphic novel by Daniel Clowes; Screenplay by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff Fantagraphics, October 2008, $39.99 Ten years after the first collection of [[[Ghost World]]] and seven after the movie version of the same story (and, not coincidentally, the screenplay book), Dan Clowes’s most famous and best-known story has gotten…
THE CHINATOWN DEATH CLOUD PERILPaul MalmontISBN 978-0-7432-8785-2 I realize that I’m coming rather late to this novel, which was published in 2006 and set the pulp world on fire. I’d heard many good things about it but I’d never gotten around to grabbing a copy for myself until now. This book takes the real-life figures…