Moe Lane's Blog, page 705
August 1, 2021
Patreon Microfiction: Don’t Care About Credit.
It’s amazing what you can do when you Don’t Care About Credit. But you already know that, of course. Don’t know why I’m even pointing it out, really.
Patreon!
July 31, 2021
Today is THE LAST NIGHT for the July Patreon Pledge Drive.
Admittedly, you can sign up tomorro– NO! Always Be Closing, Moe! Always Be Closing!
Anyway: for a mere buck a month you can get fiction and gaming stuff on the regular. It’s a bargain! So check it out.
Huh. I actually have more than one movie that I want to see on Monday.
THE GREEN KNIGHT and JUNGLE CRUISE – and if that doesn’t illustrate how weird my tastes in films are, I don’t know what would. Admittedly, I heard that JUNGLE CRUISE was actually too good to miss (and that THE GREEN KNIGHT was doing about as well as you’d expect a tonally accurate look at the Gawaine legend to do), so my schedule has been altered. But I have options! That’s nice.
Don’t know which one to watch first, though. Probably THE GREEN KNIGHT; the other one’s likely to hang around for a while.
Book of the Week: Fade.
I picked up Fade: A Wizard Private Investigator Novel by Daniel Humphreys recently. Just what it says on the tin, but it’s written well and I’m enjoying it so far. Check it out!
The July Patreon rewards are up!
Today’s the trifecta: microfiction, gaming material, and a new short story! Sign up today! Only a dollar a month!
THE RELIEF OF WINDERMERE CASTLE. Kind of gothpunk! Is that a term? It is now!MONSTER WAR DOOM, PART II: MONSTERS (THE ELDEST). You’ll feel bad for them! Maybe! They’re monsters, right?THE WAY TO THE DEVIL’S HEART. Microfiction! The Devil! Unexpected social awkwardness!
Patreon!July 30, 2021
Not the best month, to be honest.
Nothing really horrible, but lots of external stress and the short story launch frankly flopped. Well, relatively[*]. Between the Kickstarter and what sales there were, I was able to pay for it and some more stuff later in the year, but this has not been a great summer for selling books.
Welp. August in a few days. A new month ahead: Excelsior!
Moe Lane
[*Okay, fine, not at all.]
Scarlet Johansson is gonna sue the shorts off of of Disney…
…and I’m not finding it hard to pick a side at all. I mean, the Mouse is never gonna offer me a book contract: but it still behooves me to be against companies casually breaching them*. And, amusingly, Johansson has a net worth of over 100 million — she’s apparently been involved in at least one blockbuster movie series — so Disney’s usual tactic of overlawyering her just ain’t gonna fly. This should be real interesting, and I wonder whether they’re going to try to settle fast.
I wouldn’t… because I wouldn’t have gotten into this mess in the first place. Jesus, just pay people. It’s not a hard strategy to comprehend.
Moe Lane
*As somebody put it: I don’t care if Johansson wins, but I do need for Disney to lose.
Tweet of the Day, “Don’t Say Anything. Your Words Would Be Useless, Maybe Even Insulting” edition.
“Just fly the damn plane.”
After 25 years, mail drop at Calvin’s hideout. End of our story… but beginning another, I want to think. The Days, as they say, Will Be Packed. —bb pic.twitter.com/xlaCDM1rjB
— Bloom County (@bloomcounty) July 31, 2021
