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August 23, 2022
The MINIONS: RISE OF GRU Honest Trailer.
Blessedly, my children did not want to see MINIONS: RISE OF GRU in theaters. Alas, the fact that this is an Honest Trailer means that it’s available for sale, and probably streaming soon somewhere. So at some point they’ll discover it. And then I will see this movie roughly twenty thousand times.
…Run.
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In the E-Mail: GATHERING FIVE STORMS (Dangerous Clique, Book 3).
Jim Geraghty’s latest thriller GATHERING FIVE STORMS is out, which means that he’s finally officially passed me in the novel scoreboard (four to three). Enjoy it while it lasts, Jimmy! I get a novel out a year! That edge THE WEED AGENCY bought you ain’t gonna last forever!
I’ll probably read the book itself tonight. I pre-ordered it, but this morning’s gonna be busy. THAT’S INCLUDING SCHEDULED WRITING TIME, JIMBO! How’s your wordcount today, buddy*?
Moe Lane
*In case it isn’t already obvious: Jim’s an old friend and professional colleague. I heartily recommend reading his books.
August 22, 2022
My mini-review of THE SANDMAN.
Now that I’ve watched the first season (but not the interlude?) Short version: it’s pretty f*cking awesome.
Slightly longer version: it’s pretty f*cking awesome, and I don’t give a good goddam what the weird numbers Netflix uses to do its ordering choices. Second season that sucker. Done just the way it’s being done now, too. Including this genius idea of replicating the standalone vignettes that the comic did.
Is THE SANDMAN a perfect replication of the graphic novels? Not quite. Do I care? Absolutely not. Do I want to see all the stuff with Hell and the dead? You betcha.
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New Webcomic by @bfleuter: THE BEEKEEPER’S TALE.
In the Mail: SPELLJAMMER: ADVENTURES IN SPACE.
My DM wants to run a Spelljammer game after we’re done with the current adventure. I’m down, but I’m gonna need to have a Giant Space Hamster. And no, not a Dwarf Giant Space Hamster, either. The true quill, or nothing.
In the mail. pic.twitter.com/jABwuds8dD
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) August 22, 2022
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08/22/22 Snippet, TOUR OF DUTY
Trying to make up for lost time.
Patreon!In the end we didn’t have to use Janusz’s door-kicking idea. Chin used a handheld probe to touch each bit of extruded shipskin, each bit retreated back into the seam, and by the fourth touch the door was shuddering on its own. The seventh one was the one that did the trick; it probably would have been very dramatic, the way the door irised open, if only there had been any air or sound. And nothing tried to eat Chin’s face.
I’ll admit it here. I expected that we would find nothing unusual, at least at first. Even if there had been some kind of incident on the other side, the ship’s no-power systems were still online, and they were very good at cleaning up debris, dust, and presumably evidence. So subconsciously I was ready for an anticlimactic view of yet more too-yellow lights and pristine corridors.
What we got instead was a hallway of bones. Alien bones; the skulls were too wide and low, with four orbital sockets and no nose, and all the bones piled halfway to the ceiling were thick and heavy, like someone had gone through the pile and pulled out all the ribs and teeth and spines. But the more I looked, the more I could make out outlines of what must have been the alien’s skeleton. Nothing had been at these bodies. Nothing had disturbed their bones… until now.
This makes it sound like we were gawking. And, for one horrible moment, we were. But then Aldini laughed, through his suit. “Ecco i nostri genitori! Cosa ci sussurreranno?” he shouted, in his own language, and started to move forward. Clearly the sedative had worn off.
But two people grabbed him, out of reflex — and then suddenly it was like a spell had lifted, and we were all being given instructions. Film the bones, scan for traces of atmosphere, run diagnostics on the systems on the other side of the door. It wasn’t exactly an archeological dig and it wasn’t exactly a crime scene investigation, but it was close enough to both for all of us to improvise.
Doing a panel at Fright Reads!
Details aren’t finalized, yet, but I’ll be one of four people on a panel at Fright Reads on October 1st (12-6 PM Benfield Sportscenter, Millersville, MD). We’ll be talking about what it’s like to publish; I don’t know if the others are going to be concentrating on self-publishing, but that’s what I’m doing to be talking about. I’ve been doing it for a couple of years at this point, so I have some idea on how the whole thing goes.
If you can’t wait for that, buy my books now!
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August 21, 2022
Patreon Microfiction: Green-Purple-Black Box Blues.
“Green-Purple-Black Box Blues” is mostly because, indeed, nobody comes up with taste-based magic systems. I dunno, maybe if we were snakes or something we might have in our fiction. Leaving aside what ‘fiction’ would even look under such a thought experiment.
Patreon!I am back, and so is MONSTER OF THE WEEK.
You all know who I am*: MONSTER OF THE WEEK is Shaenon Garritty’s weekly look at X-FILES episodes. She’ll be doing Season Seven this go-round. It may be a silly go-round, because apparently Season Seven was a very silly season. It’s been a while since I watched the episodes, myself.
Moe Lane
*In case you don’t: here. Or here. Or, hey, here.
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