Moe Lane's Blog, page 587
April 3, 2022
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.
Tweet of the Day, This… Is Not How Copyright Works. At ALL. edition.
I’m a published author, and I don’t even want it to work this way. I’m not licensing you hardcopies of my books. I’m selling you hardcopies of my books. Once you have it, it’s yours to resell, loan out, or turn into a damn paper-mache rabbit if you like. See, I already got paid.
Can’t get over this “copyright” notice that was included in a real book. Some poor Reddit user had to ask if it was a real thing. pic.twitter.com/9tfnZY7F4I
— Caitlin Canahai(@caitlincanahey) April 1, 2022
Via @calvinjluther.
Patreon Microfiction: Ultimate Exile.
Sometimes the Ultimate Exile is self-imposed. And sometimes it is not. Either way: no refunds.
Patreon!April 2, 2022
The FIRESTARTER remake trailer.
You know what? I’m going to allow this. The first FIRESTARTER movie sucked*. Maybe this one won’t.
*Good book, though.
#commissionearned
Book of the Week, Something More Than Night.
From the description of Kim Newman’s Something More Than Night: “Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate…” annnnd that’s when I bought the book.
Okay, that’s a lie: I bought the book when I saw ‘Kim Newman,’ and I realized that I didn’t recognize the title. But if I hadn’t seen the author, the description would have done it for me.
My mini-review of MORBIUS.
Short version: …ehh, I’m not sorry I watched it.
Slightly longer version: I totally understand why the critics hated MORBIUS. It’s a formulaic popcorn movie with a slightly rushed and weak ending. They should have made the love interest a hell of a lot more unnervingly chill about her dude becoming a blood-sucking half-vampire. And the end credits made precisely zero sense.
But, honestly, Jared Leto makes a good Morbius and that’s all you need for future ensemble movies, anyway. I like going to movies. I don’t begrudge the time watching this. That will, as they say, have to do.
April 1, 2022
I don’t care, I’m seeing MORBIUS tomorrow anyway.
I know that the critics hate MORBIUS. I mean, really really hate it. But the audience is giving it a much better, and even decent score; and it’s doing all right in previews revenue. It has been a ridiculously long week, and I want to watch a popcorn movie. I don’t need it to be ARRIVAL, just something that will let me turn off my brain for a few hours.
#commissionearned
