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April 5, 2022
The GHOST RIDER 1 AND 2 Honest Trailers.
Damn, now I actually want to see GHOST RIDER. Honest Trailers legitimately sold me on the idea. I’m as surprised as you are, frankly.
#commissionearned
Tweet of the Day, Why, Then, This Is Hell, And IGN Is Not Out Of It edition.
I used to think that political writing didn’t pay, until I saw the rates for non-political writing. Sweet merciful Christ:
IGN is looking for new freelancers to assist with the daily flow of stories in games, entertainment, tech, and science. $20 base rate per story. Sliding scale for heavier reporting. DM with an introduction and portfolio for details! pic.twitter.com/XXk0cZK5FT
— Kat Bailey (@The_Katbot) April 4, 2022
Via @SonnyBunch, who offers sage advice in the process.
Moe Lane
PS: I recognize that IGN probably doesn’t have the budget to pay more. That does not absolve them of trying to get desperate people to write for them for essentially free.
April 4, 2022
‘Walkin’ on the Sun.’
Got sucked into making a map because it was the only way to explain something to somebody on Facebook.
…I know, I know. I am only flesh and blood.
Reintroducing my Kindle Vella story: THE STARS ARE WRONG.
I don’t want to just abandon THE STARS ARE WRONG: it’s a fun Cthulhu Mythos story where I was trying to switch things up a little. I don’t think it deserves to just end up as an academic footnote somewhere. So I’m putting up the link again, in the hopes it’ll get more play this time. Or, you know, any play at all.
https://amzn.to/37gcTCe
I would pay money to see Daniel Radcliffe as Wolverine.
Which I guess would be the idea? “Daniel Radcliffe has already spent time in the shoes of one legendary character for a film franchise, but rumors continue to persist that he is set to play Wolverine in the future of the X-Men franchise.” He’s denying that it’s gonna happen, just like Andrew Garfield did about SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME – so your guess is as good as mine, right?
Mind you, I don’t want to see this because I think he’ll be like the iconic Wolverine. I want to see this because a Radcliffe Wolverine would be hilarious. Like, “everybody involved is drunk with power” hilarious. It might not even be a bad flick!
:pause:
Nah, it’d probably be really bad. But still.
#commissionearned
Today is Buy Moe Lane’s Books Day! https://amzn.to/3KdJ6sE
Because you strike when the iron is hot, that’s why. If everybody else is calling a special day, just for them – then why shouldn’t I?
Let the newspersons have their moment in the sun on National Hug A Newsperson Day. Because, don't forget: tomorrow is National Venmo $150 To A Music Podcaster Day
— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) April 4, 2022
Tweet of the Day, I Lost This One Before I Even Started edition.
There’s no shame in it. Dude just came out of the gate in full shock and awe, and there was nothing to be done. It was his time.
I mean, where is the lie? pic.twitter.com/5QLLNsg1Er
— Josh Scully (@JoshAlexCairo) April 3, 2022
April 3, 2022
Paul Rudd. Conan O’Brien.
You know how this is going to go.
Paul Rudd plays Conan a clip from his upcoming scripted podcast
— Team Coco (@TeamCoco) March 29, 2022#CONAF Check out the full episode here: https://t.co/OEmhlv3z4A pic.twitter.com/LJ7MObbvP0
04/03/2022 Progress, THE THING IN THE AIRLOCK: 500 more words.
I can’t actually put them up, because it’d spoil the story. I skipped ahead to get the ending down, so that I can fill in the blanks. It’s a working strategy, too. I’ll add some stuff from earlier below the fold.
Patreon!Waite wasn’t ugly, or even plain: big green eyes in a delicate face, with her frizzy black hair in a spaceman’s bun. But her mouth was set in a smirk, and those same eyes were cynical and assessing. She had a clean record with base security, but they didn’t list ‘congenitally untrustworthy’ as a possible demerit charge.
“Well, we’re not looking at you as a suspect for the murder.” Entertainingly, both Asenath and Domaine (both anonymously listening in) chimed in with a nigh-simultaneous We’re not? In his ear and head. He ignored them both and went on. “But I do want you to give me your feel for Corporal Oates, on the day of her death.”
“Oh, that’s easy. She was as sick as a dog.”
“Really?” Tobias looked at the readouts. “It doesn’t say anything about that.”
“Probably because nobody asked.” Waite gave Tobias a highly objectionable smirk.
