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August 23, 2021
The “MY CHILDREN APPROVE” SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Teaser trailer.
Not only do my children approve; they are ready to see SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME in theaters. You have no idea how hard it is to convince them to do that. We are also binging Spider-Man flicks this week, on general principles.
What just happened? Watch the official teaser trailer for #SpiderManNoWayHome, exclusively in movie theaters December 17. pic.twitter.com/gitbLCniOd
— Spider-Man: No Way Home (@SpiderManMovie) August 24, 2021
Spent the morning doing DECISIONS revisions.
Some very useful feedback from both of the two beta reads that I’ve gotten back, so far. DECISIONS is going to be an eclectic chapbook, mind you: there’s a fantasy Western, a flat-out Cthulhu Mythos story, a clockpunk adventure, and… damned if I know what the last one is, but it was fun to write. They all were, and I flatter myself that they’re some of my best work. I look forward to publishing them, once I get the artwork and the rest of the feedback in.
In the meantime: buy my books!
August 22, 2021
Heh-hee-hee-heh it’s done :one eye, suddenly bulging: thE FIRsT EDItiNg of MORGAN BAROD iS DonE.
I sat down and I did all the chapter revisions, me. All of them. And the global killing of all the ‘thats’ and the ‘somebodys’ and the commas outside the quotes — or is it the insides? No matter! They’re dead, dead, DEAD! They’ve all been most piteously slain! The darlings fell like rain!
Now I am going to not look at the book until tomorrow, do another read-through to see what I missed, let the editor see the most revised portions, and… then we can get this SOB published. Because I am totally at the point where I hate MORGAN BAROD. It’s the most magical stage, in a book’s life. I’m ready to drive it out with fire and whip into the open world, where it might then earn money for me.
Speaking of: buy my books!
Patreon Microfiction: Tra La Blipping La.
…Is it so wrong to want a musical or two about Black Ops shenanigans? Really and truly? — Because I don’t think so.
Patreon!I did catch the leaked SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME trailer…
…before they yoinked that sucker. It definitely looks real, if extremely unfinished*. Dr. Strange, Peter Parker being upset about how everybody knows who he is now, the two collide — the dialogue is not from previous movies, and neither were the scenes that I saw. My children have already shown an interest in a Spider-Man marathon this week; which is good, because we were going to have one anyway…
*Which may be why they haven’t released a trailer yet. The CGI didn’t look finished. Mind you, the video quality was uber-crappy.
August 21, 2021
Spent this evening watching Fallout YouTube videos.
You learn something new every day.
08/21/21 Snippet, FLIM-FLAM MAN.
This one is proving easier to write, frankly.
Patreon!It wasn’t the worst day of Gregor’s life. He had long since decided that the worst day would be his last day; and while he might have been wet, muddy, and still out of breath, he wasn’t about to die. But it had been a truly rotten day. The kind of rotten that hides under the skin of the fruit, just waiting for you to take a bite.
That damned village had looked so inviting. It was full of farmers and crafters with fat cheeks and fatter pouches, there for market day and just begging to be fleeced. And there was nobody else to work the crowd! Forget other mountebanks; there wasn’t even a dipper or a snatcher to be seen. It would have been a crime not to pick a few apples from that particular civic tree. So he had pulled out his trusty belt pouch (filled with coins that might have even passed muster in such a hick place), and went looking for a suitable mark to help him ‘find’ it.
How was he supposed to know somebody had played that game a month ago, and used it to fleece half the town? The least they could have done was put up a sign! …Gregor had said exactly that to the four burly farmers carrying him, one limb per customer, and a part of him was gratified to see that at least the line got a laugh before they swung him until he was dizzy, then threw him into the local millpond.
Lead writer for Disney+’s MARVEL: ARMOR WARS chosen.
Buried lede: they’re doing ARMOR WARS for the MCU. Well, buried for me:
The “Armor Wars” series at Disney Plus has tapped Yassir Lester to serve as head writer, Variety has confirmed with sources.
Don Cheadle will star in the series, reprising the role of James “Rhodey” Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine. The series is based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name. In the series, Rhodes must face what happens when Tony Stark’s tech falls into the wrong hands.
Personally, I’m in favor of giving Don Cheadle enough walking-around money to let him do whatever projects later he feels like doing, and goodness knows pretending to look at HUDs is easy work. But: wow, it really is true that every problem in the MCU is eventually Tony Stark’s fault, huh? Oh, well, as long as there’s lot of battlesuit combat.
