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July 3, 2021
Book of the Week: As You Wish.
Full title: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, written by Cary Elwes (and Joe Layden). If you are looking for dirt on the people who made The Princess Bride, this is not the book for you to read. If you want to read some fun stories about that movie production, then look no further.
God, but I love that movie.
July 2, 2021
‘The Lady.’
The Nineties and Oughts are starting to feel to me like the Seventies and Eighties used to feel to me. Ach, well, I like Tech Level 8 a lot better than TL7.
Tweet of the Day, It Does Look Like A CGI Effect edition.
But, no, it’s real.
It’s a Kaiju Category 2. Bubblehead. https://t.co/JoatoefidR
— Neil Stevens (@presjpolk) July 2, 2021
It’s also since been put out.
07/02/21 Snippet, THE DEFENSE OF WINDERMERE CASTLE.
I’ve wanted to come back to this one for quite some time.
Patreon!By the beginning of the third week, Carlotta, Duchess of Haversham, had finally begun to admit to herself that the Royal Army was not coming to take care of these walking dead. She felt this should not be seen as a reflection upon her: after all, she was one of the first to come to this conclusion. Most of the rest of the people in Windermere Castle were still fondly and foolishly expecting a dramatic rescue. She had quite enjoyed her own self-delusion, really.
Alas, wishful thinking was supposed to be something that happened to other people. A noblewoman of high rank (and good family) in the Imperial Republic of Briton needed to be considerably clearer-headed, even during the end of the world. Especially then, even. And at least she was in a castle. Carlotta was morbidly certain that many in her country were either making do with hasty barricades, conveniently isolated islands or lonely moors, or of course just dying at the hands of a ravenous mob of walking dead.
Three weeks of siege had suggested to her that the builders of Windermere Castle had been keen on wind-swept battlements; her chestnut hair was just now growing out to a length that would allow them to be properly tousled by the wind from the north. Those builders, however, had not quite had the budget to make the walls properly cyclopean. Against an army with cannon and flintlocks, or even trebuchets and arrows, the walls would have proved ineffectual; but against the walking dead they worked rather well. She felt no danger as she walked the parapets, and it definitely helped with the morale of the men.
The Call of Cthulhu Classic Kickstarter.
Specifically, the forty year anniversary reprinting of the original boxed edition of the Call Of Cthulhu RPG. This is old-school stuff, friends: Chaosium scanned near-mint versions of the originals, cleaned them up, added little extras, and now here it is. I should also note that I checked, and Chaosium is planning to print this in Europe: i.e., not via slave labor. We all remember the wretched Sassoon Files affair, I’m sure…
“Pickman’s Model: A Romance is currently #31 in 30-Minute Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads!
I have no idea if that’s meaningful, but it’s not horrible, right? Hey, it would be awesome if it hit #1, though…
Pickman’s Model: A Romance: “Richard Pickman is a Bostonian artist of the grotesque, seemingly incapable of making the simplest of human connections. But can he make one with Abigail Peters?”
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER sounds intriguing.
Not gonna lie, here: THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER has a vibe that I like. “The story centers around the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London in Bram Stoker’s classic tale. In that novel, the Demeter washes up on the shores of England, tattered and broken, with one raving mad survivor. Schut’s script places the voyage center stage in a tale that is said to be reminiscent of the first Alien movie, in which a crew is slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious passenger.”
Mind you, I’m primed to see it already. I’ve read DRACULA a bunch of times, and I’ve always thought that that scene in particular could in fact make for a good flick. A stalker flick in particular, which is what this movie is shaping up to be. I’m tentatively down for it.
July 1, 2021
Early night for me.
I need to get a good night’s sleep for a change. And hydrate better. And write longer pieces, while I’m at it. Or maybe more, shorter ones. Really, I can do as I please, right?
Something I should think about. After the aforementioned good night’s sleep.
The Goat Simulator: GoatZ trailer.
Oh my God I’m seriously considering Goat Simulator: GoatZ.
Never underestimate the power of a good trailer.
BEHOLD! The MORGAN BAROD cover.
I am well-pleased with it.
Artwork’s from a buddy of mine in the SCA, and I think it came out right nice. MORGAN BAROD is still on schedule for coming out this summer, by the way. Keep watching the skies!
