Moe Lane's Blog, page 736
April 20, 2021
Tweet of the Day, FORK HANDS edition.
This is pretty good.
I like this fork hands explanation: pic.twitter.com/aK368dhB8t
— Dinidu Perera (@nunu10000) April 19, 2021
Via @BrianFaughnan.
April 19, 2021
04/19/21 Snippet, Le Roi Est Mort.
This one is mostly done already, but it needed a little expanding. I don’t see it needing much more work.
Patreon!But as the parade begins to slow, there is a commotion. A commotion around… you?
Yes, you. A person comes through the crowd, eyes wild and searching, and light upon your form. At first you think this is a madman, and you smile. It is a rule of the Golden Emperor that you must treat madmen gently. But you then realize, with a start of surprise, that this is no lunatic. It is the one from the neighborhood, the one who earlier… no. The past is the past, and this is the now.
You squint, so as not to see. But you can still hear the voice. The voice entreats, harangues, begs; it tells you of dangers and perils. You must leave, according to the voice; you must leave now. Before your eternal now ends.
For a moment — just a moment! — the scent of the lotuses fades a little, and you half-wonder of your plans for after the funeral. A trace thought, filled with hesitation or even perhaps apprehension, brushes through your mind, and you notice how heavy are both the pole and the banner bearing the Sign of the Golden Emperor. To your shame, for a moment you weaken.
But the wind shifts, and the smell of the lotus comes back, and with a happy sigh you gratefully abandon those thoughts. They are unimportant, anyway. The funeral of the Golden Emperor, now: that is important.
The voice continues to entreat beg, but you march onward. Behind you, the begging turns to angry shouts as some stout fellows, no doubt here to make the parade pass smoothly, escort the voice and its owner away. You feel grateful as you move onward.
After a moment, you may or may not hear something like a splash.
Apparently Rob Zombie is doing a Munsters movie.
It was reported last month (by Murphy’s Multiverse) that Rob Zombie would be getting back behind the camera for this next horror project, a new interpretation of The Munsters, which would film this coming May in Budapest.
From what I’m hearing, and I have not been able to confirm this, The Munsters is actually going to be a Peacock original/exclusive that will open day-and-date in theaters via Universal Pictures/UPHE, similar to what Warner Bros. is doing with HBO Max. It’s a great way to strengthen the return on a larger budgeted risk like The Munsters, which is reportedly in the $30M-$40M range.
Apparently Rob is a hardcore Munsters fan, so this is ‘labor of love’ territory. I’m curious to see what he does with it, too. Admittedly, I’m more of an Addams Family guy, but I don’t scorn the other aesthetic, either. Besides: they had an admittedly sweet car. I think I had that car as a Matchbox or Hot Wheels as a kid, although I may be misremembering it.
So, there’s a prequel of ARMY OF THE DEAD called ARMY OF THIEVES…
…which is casually mentioned here while they were talking about a not-gonna-happen Atom movie made in the PRC*. The two movies are coming out at the same time, I guess? God, I hate what this damn virus has done to movie distribution.
Moe Lane
*Well, I’m not gonna see it. I’m trying to cut down on my consumption of products made with slave labor.
The SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS teaser trailer.
This doesn’t look half bad. I’m down for a martial arts superhero flick with MCU levels of funding. Won’t be real deep, but it should be able to manage fun.
Final Snippet, PROCESSING DUTY.
It still needs work, but determining what that work is will be the beta readers’ problem.
Patreon!The halls were cleared, because nobody wants to be anywhere besides behind blast doors during Processing. I didn’t, either — but the job’s the job. On the other hand: what was anybody gonna do, if they saw me running through the halls, Dizzy’s gun in hand? Besides hit an alarm button that didn’t work?
Anyway, the door leading to the Processing chamber had been jimmied; it looked closed, but the lock didn’t engage. You don’t do that. You don’t do that. I can see trying to keep the door to an underground nuclear test site stuck closed, but open? That’s just being spiteful.
April 18, 2021
Annnnd BOOM goes the drowsiness.
Just hit. Thank God for caffeine, or I would have fallen asleep during the baronial meeting. I’m picking a song, and then I might… go to bed early? Is that even allowed, for those such as I?
Back from the shot.
So far, no side effects from the shot itself (Moderna, if it matters). The Mango Pepsi* and Funyuns I consumed while gassing up the car, though? …Jury’s still out on those.
But if the shot wipes me out later, it wipes me out later. Small price to pay.
Moe Lane
*…I would not call it bad. But the taste was surprising, and I’m not sure why. I mean, the bottle told me it was mango-flavored. I supposed I didn’t… believe it?
