Moe Lane's Blog, page 142
November 29, 2024
The Critical Drinker reviews WICKED.
(Via Instapundit) He… liked it, actually. Which is impressive, because the media blitz for WICKED is giving off heavy It’s Not For You vibes for, I dunno, roughly half the population? But apparently it’s good, if you like musicals and/or the original stage production.
Well, that’s cool. Not everything has to be made for me. …I can pretty much end that statement there, huh? Because, really, it’s true: not everything has to be made for me.
My mini-review of RED ONE.
Short version: …I swear to God, some people just don’t like silly, slightly sloppy fun.
Slightly longer version: the guy whose place I held in the snack line so that he could get his pregnant wife properly situated had seen RED ONE a week earlier, and he told me it was a good bad film. …That’s fair. High Cinema it is not. But it was goofy entertainment and Christmas-y at the same time, albeit with a bunch of cussing and a highly contrived excuse to visit a beach in Aruba. When it comes on, you’ll probably like it.
I personally feel like sometimes movie critics need to grade more on a curve. This is one of those times.
Black Friday sale for FROZEN DREAMS and TINSEL RAIN!
Both FROZEN DREAMS and TINSEL RAIN are only 99 cents on Kindle this weekend! Set in my Fermi Resolution series, I can say with no little confidence that they will be the best post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective stories you will read today. Check them out.
#commissionearned
November 28, 2024
Hrm. Maybe I WILL go see RED ONE.
Those are some good numbers RED ONE’s pulling. Critics hated it + audience loved it = big, sloppy fun, usually. I could do with some big, sloppy fun.
‘Mashed Sweet Potatoes in Orange Cups.’
This was one of the things my wife made for Thanksgiving because I was on bird and mashed potatoes and broccolini duty. Come, I will conceal nothing: I had signed off on trying it politely as part of my husbandly duties right up to the first bite. I ate the whole thing and was kind of happy that there wasn’t more, because I would have made myself a pig over it.
She fiddled with the recipe, upping the butter, orange, and the syrup, skipping the pecan drizzle, substituting almonds for walnuts because I have an allergy, and adding cinnamon on the sensible theory that everything else in the recipe went well with the spice. All in all, it was delicious. I won’t mind having it again.
Moe Lane
PS: I decided not to take pictures of the food. Everything came out great and everybody else is showing off their food today anyway.
“As God is my witness…”
“…I thought turkeys could fly.”
The Tom Vargas Mysteries Kindle Sale!
The Tom Vargas Mysteries are now on 99 cent Kindle Sale in the US/UK! Read the first two books before you read BANSHEE BEACH next year!
#commissionearned
…I didn’t think @elonmusk would actually CONSIDER it.
It was a joke.
I'm sure that Hasbro would be happy to at least consider any serious offer. https://t.co/YV08ptipq1
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) November 22, 2024
A joke.
Elon teases buying Hasbro and DnD.
— Grummz (@Grummz) November 28, 2024
Jason Tondro hyperventilating as we speak. pic.twitter.com/jkMXQLK4Tm
I mean, he can probably get D&D for a fraction of that, so I dunno if picking up all of Hasbro is necessary. Then again, the WotC tail wags the Hasbro dog, so it might make more sense to just getting it all. For that matter, the real money there is in Magic: the Gathering…
Moe Lane
PS: Elon Musk is almost certainly trolling. Still. You never know, right?
