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I put up the proof copy of DARK HISTORY on Patreon.

Dark History should be available there if you have a paid subscription. I’m going to give it another look-see tonight or tomorrow and then put it up on DriveThruRPG. Lemme know the typos I missed. I know that I missed some, because you always do. By now it doesn’t even bother me.

Patreon!

‘Halloween Main Theme.’

Halloween Main Theme

#commissionearned

I’m hoping to have DARK HISTORY done by Sunday.

Normally it would be ‘done by Saturday,’ but Saturday is the MD Renn Faire. I’ve got most of the illustrations made, and… yeah. There’s a reason this sucker’s only going to be 99 cents. I’m not saying they’re wretched, but I’m leaning heavily on manipulating the public domain clip art; and brothers and sisters, but it shows.

Tentative cover art:

Again, not wretched, but… I am a writer, not an artist.

So, they canceled VELMA.

The funniest thing about this is that they didn’t cancel VELMA because of any big controversy. They cancelled VELMA because that’s what happens to all streaming shows these days after two seasons. The algorithm giveth, and the algorithm taketh away, and taketh away, and taketh away.

Almost a shame, really. I was really enjoying not watching the show. Guess I’ll have to start not watching something else, now.

Moe Lane

I am aware that the Mets have, well.

This awareness of mine has done the Mets no harm. I will continue to maintain this awareness, in precisely this way. I make no commentary or speculation of the future.

That is all.

Tweet/PSA of the Day, If You Assault Cops While Wearing A Banana Suit… edition.

…do not post pictures of yourself in the banana suit afterward. Or maybe do, because this was funny. I laughed. God help me, but I laughed.

2/2 @PhillyPolice say Thomas helped lead detectives to himself by posting selfie video & pics to social media from the car meetups. pic.twitter.com/fMykvJAh1i

— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) October 9, 2024

Via @iowahawkblog, who is likewise finding humor in this situation, somehow.

(PS: For the record, throwing firecrackers at a cop car or whatever it was is definitely assault, but I dunno if I’d agree it was aggravated assault. I thought it would be, like, a bat or something. Not that it matters, because I’m not going to be on that jury anyway.)

The unfortunately wrong-minded THE DAY OF THE JACKAL trailer.

I wish they had called DAY OF THE JACKAL something else.

It’s mostly because the show seems determined to do something that the book at least avoided (I can’t remember if I saw the film): to wit, make the Jackal a villain. In a very particular way, in the book he is not. The Jackal has no interest in his target, no agenda past his contract, and feels no need to offer a justification for his actions. He is… a force of nature, as implacable as his human frame will let him be, and the heroes don’t need to understand him. They simply need to kill him.

Is a tornado a villain? A mudslide? A swarm of angry bees? No, no, and no – but you can enjoy watching all of those being defeated. Humanizing the Jackal here feels like it’s just catering to what people think is the current taste for comprehensible, understandable villains. I’d rather they didn’t try to bother.

Moe Lane

PS: That being said: now I want to reread the book. And (re?)watch the movie. And… oh. Wow. That would work. That would absolutely work.

Nevermind, will tell you later.

#commissionearned

‘Bold Marauder.’

Bold Marauder, Mimi & Richard Farina

#commissionearned

Slight change of plans: I’m modifying clip art for DARK HISTORY *today*.

Some of it is not entirely awful. Note that I’m modifying clip art, not drawing it myself. I do not have that skill set. Believe me, if I could afford to have other people do it, I would.

Anyway, that was what I was doing tonight. It’s not really great, but it’s oddly soothing.

The new A COMPLETE UNKNOWN trailer.

Sorry not sorry. Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are part of the background music of my twenties (Johnny Cash came later). I can also believe Timothée Chalamet can do a convincing Dylan. All in all, I’m probably seeing A COMPLETE UNKNOWN in theaters. This is a thing that is happening.