Moe Lane's Blog, page 582
March 15, 2022
Nick Cage wants to be in THE BATMAN sequel.
And you will not be surprised at his desired role:
“I like… oh, here’s something, I’ve been thinking about this, because we have this new, Robert Pattinson as the Batman, which I haven’t seen it yet, but I think he would be terrific, the villain that Vincent Price played on the ’60s show, Egghead. I think I want to have a go at Egghead. I think I could make him absolutely terrifying. And I have a concept for Egghead. So let them know over at Warner Bros. I’m down for Egghead.”
…I know, right? Classic Nick Cage: it makes no sense, and yet it does. And, amazingly, he’s picked a Batman villain who fits with THE BATMAN’s aesthetic. Egghead displays a physical oddity, has no powers besides his towering intellect, and is as crazy as an outhouse rat. I can see the villain fitting into the sequel.
Oh, and Cage should go see THE BATMAN. It’s good. I liked it.
I’m not really joking about TINSEL RAIN prices maybe going up, mind you.
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— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 15, 2022
Amazon’s cost-per-book is likely to rise, which means that book prices will rise, too. I can’t do much about it, if/when it happens. Except, you know, add a buck or so to the book price. I don’t wanna, but expenses are gonna go up across the board.
03/15/22 Snippet, THE DECALOGUE KILLER.
I apparently have gotten better at dialogue, over the years. Go figure…
Patreon!“Ralph Walters? You wanna know about the False Witness?” Old Chris hawked, and spat on the street. “That tell you enough?”
“Yeah, I guess it does.” I grimaced. “But how do I spell that?”
The cops had finally coughed up the name of the latest victim: one Ralph Grisham. Attorney: the kind who either ends up running for office or out of the country, depending on his opportunities. I had wandered on over to the deceased’s law offices to get a feel for the man. Starting with how he treated the people who weren’t his coworkers.
Judging from Old Chris — the guy running the newspaper stand — Ralph wasn’t exactly Mister Nice Guy. “He was a total bastard, let me tell you. The kind of guy who’d pay for a paper with a five dollar bill, then scowl if you didn’t have his change already ready. It’s because of him I got that sign up.” He pointed to a hand-written COINS ONLY FOR NEWSPAPERS sign taped to the wall behind him. Then, meditatively, he reached out and yanked it off. “Guess I don’t need that anymore.”
Tweet of the Day, HEED edition.
There’s some stuff about to go down in that cartoon episode, let me tell you.
Beware the eyes of Marge pic.twitter.com/G0hdAG7N4X
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 15, 2015
March 14, 2022
Sorry, wasn’t feeling well today.
I blame the supermarket orange chicken we got yesterday: there may have been MSG in it. Or, worse, garlic, with ‘worse’ being two-fold. I like garlic, and if I’m starting to get a reaction to even the cooked version… ugh.
Anyway, no appetite for actual food and indigestion all day. I think this is what ‘dyspeptic’ is actually modelling.
Everything SHOULD be measured in giraffes, sure.
Sorry. It’s just so rare that social media brings up giraffes, for some reason. And I’ve always wanted an excuse to use that picture.
https://t.co/v8MfvHlhxk pic.twitter.com/EZt3FVFt0s
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 14, 2022
Tweet of the Day, Michael Caine Offers Up A Valuable Professional Life Lesson edition.
It’s good to remember to focus on the essentials.
Jaws The Revenge: "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” – Michael Caine.
— Last Exit To Nowhere (@LASTEXITshirts) March 14, 2022
Join us in wishing the wonderful @TheMichaelCaine many happy returns. pic.twitter.com/XkjvRcqXEm
March 13, 2022
03/13/2022 Snippet, THE DECALOGUE KILLER.
Back to the story!
Patreon!After a solid eight hours of wandering the city – and an hour in-between to drink lunch – I went back to the Messenger with a light step. I had enough material for two man-on-the-street articles about the Killer, and leads on a half-dozen other stories. Serial killers may take over the front page when they show up, but you can’t run the same story forever. There’s no resting on my weary laurels in this world.
Unfortunately, when I got to my desk my boss was already there; from the way she was leaning back in my seat, she’d been there for a while. Gloria didn’t even look mad for having to wait, which worried me. When a head editor has that cheerful a grin on, it means one of two things: either a horse had come in at twenty to one, or she was about to put the boot in. And the racetrack was closed today.
“Joe!” Great, even her voice was chipper. “Glad I caught you before you went home for the night.”
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Timmy and the Jolly Old Elf.’
“Timmy and the Jolly Old Elf.” Ah, Timmy. And the Jolly Old Elf, for that matter. I need to write another Timmy story. Hell, if I write two more I could do a Christmas chapbook! That’d be fun.
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