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March 18, 2022
In Nomine Revisited: The Tzaddikim.
Needed a little revision. I love semicolons too much. And dashes. And… anyway.
Tzaddikim-Google-DocsDownloadLast weekend of the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter!
We’re pretty dang close – less than a hundred bucks – to the next TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter stretch goal, too! ‘Course, the next one (an audiobook version of TINSEL RAIN) is the big one. Well, the big one that I’m gonna likely hit, barring people accidentally misclicking on Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter and backing mine instead.
Anyway, last weekend of me nagging on this, so tell your friends! And, well, everybody else. Just make sure they pick up FROZEN DREAMS first – or, you know, pick that tier in the Kickstarter. TINSEL RAIN is a sequel, after all.
#commissionearned
Disney+’s PARALLELS doesn’t look… awful?
I’m always a sucker for a time-travel story, mind you. And this one looks like it’s got at least a little thought behind it. Maybe PARALLELS won’t suck?
Daniel Radcliffe feels no need to do another Harry Potter movie.
Apparently one of the directors to one of the Harry Potter movies wants to do a film version of the stage play HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. But: “…[Daniel] Radcliffe was asked to comment about Columbus’ Cursed Child statement. The actor admitted that it’s something he’s “really not interested in doing right now,” especially when he’s at a certain point of his life and career where he feels like he has already “made it out of Potter.””
Lemme translate that out of Polite: Not just ‘No.’ That’s gonna be ‘Hell to the no.’ Sorry, what’s that? I can’t quite hear you, over the sound of all of this money.
I dunno who the agents were for the Harry Potter kids, but they should all get civic awards for their contributions to Western civilization. Straight up: horrible sequels for the sake of money are a real problem in genre film making*. None of those kids from the flicks – well, now they’re adults – really need to go along with a bad script and a quick cinematic hack job just to maintain their lifestyle, for which I am thankful. At least they’ll all come back for an elaborate cinematic hack job, hopefully after I am dead of old age.
…Well, maybe not. I’d like to last longer than thirty more years, honestly.
Moe Lane
*I approve of good sequels for the sake of money, obviously. I am not a Communist.
Tweet of the Day, HOOKERS! edition.
I’m telling you right now: people are just gonna use this for HOOKERS! Real-time, personalized virtual HOOKERS!
https://t.co/o3lQ5RRADg pic.twitter.com/wr8aaVBLdz
— Foster (@foster_type) March 18, 2022
Whether this is more or less dystopian than the above Tweets suggest is obviously going to be a matter of your own personal opinion.
Moe Lane
PS: Of course I used the Bender voice.
#commissionearned
March 17, 2022
‘If I Ever Leave This World Alive.’
Fine. Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
GURPS SOCIAL ENGINEERING now available on Print On Demand.
Available on Amazon, no less.
Daily Illuminator: GURPS Social Engineering Now In Print https://t.co/u1ikJ6SGVN
— Steve Jackson Games (@SJGames) March 17, 2022
I like the idea of getting around shipping costs this way, and I wish they’d use it to do more with In Nomine. But then, who are they gonna have run a rejuvenation of that particular RPG? Those of us who could credibly write or edit the game line have scattered to the four winds*.
Ach, well.
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
*I won’t bore you with melancholy reminiscences about names you wouldn’t recognize anyway. But some of those folks knew what they were about when it came to writing gaming material…
03/17/22 Snippet, THE DECALOGUE KILLER.
False Witness!
Patreon!“Mr. Walters was a key member of this firm,” Sally Martinez told me, as imperiously as she could. Since she was in charge of a pretty big city law firm, her ‘could’ wasn’t half bad. “I would expect some delicacy in the reports on his death.”
“All right, Ms. Martinez,” I said, and bit back a smile at her little look of surprise. “So give me some delicate details about the guy. What were his good points? Gave to the poor, loving family, did charitable works in his spare time?”
I could tell she wanted to lie. She really did. Instead Martinez grimaced and said, “Mr. Walters was nothing if not attached to his work. He was an excellent defense attorney, and a scrupulous one. Do you understand me, Mr. Boyden? He was no kind of ‘False Witness,’ and our firm will not look kindly on any allegation that he was.”
The way she was glaring at me, I’m surprised my tie didn’t catch fire. “Didn’t say anything of the sort, Ms. Martinez. I’m not the one hanging the monikers on the Decalogue Killer’s victims.”
“No, you just feed red meat to the ign… the good citizens of Bay City. Then you report on whatever moniker they come up with. It’s all nice and tidy that way, isn’t it?”
“Maybe,” I said, because it wasn’t like I was gonna agree with her in public.
An important milestone on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter.
This was a private goal, not a public one: I broke $2,100 on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter! This was important because of my funding realities. The very short version is that it can take more than a year’s worth of various money pools refilling before I can squeeze enough cash out to self-publish a novel. Note: this is not a complaint. I am very lucky to have those money pools. Most people do not. Many of the people who do have those pools need the money for more important things, like food and rent.
In practical terms, this means that my Kickstarters are “I need to get over the finish line,” not “pay for my artistic vision.” I calculated that I could hopefully get the book out at the end of the summer if I put together a Kickstarter, assuming that the money pools filled at their usual rates. It was a safe enough bet – but now that we’re above that $2,100 number, it’s no longer a bet at all. I can cover my remaining expenses for TINSEL RAIN with what I have in savings and what I pull in from the Kickstarter. From now on in, all cash collected can go towards new projects. Which is very neat-o: thanks.
No, seriously, thanks.
