Moe Lane's Blog, page 740
May 21, 2021
You ever get one of those feelings that an Amazon shipping disaster is unfolding…
…even as you’re watching, but nobody’s listening to your polite warning? Short version: I got that con in two weeks, I ordered books to sell for it a week ago, they’re saying the books will show up next week. So far, so good. A week is fine, it’s plenty of time for me to prep the books for transport to the con.
The problem is, the order pages show that one book out of the shipment is in transit, and will be showing up on my doorstep by the target delivery date. It’s currently wandering up and down the Eastern Seaboard. The rest of them ‘have yet to be shipped’ – but are also supposed to show up by the target delivery date. This is either an interesting artifact of the just-in-time delivery process, or stuff’s blowing up real good.
Yay?
Moe Lane
PS Amazon chat told me the books were printed, at least. I’m not sure I can quite trust the guy who assured me that, but I also screenshotted said assurance, so I guess ‘trust’ isn’t really a necessary part of the equation.
May 20, 2021
‘Mothership Connection.’
Sometimes you just need the funk.
Spending the evening watching THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD.
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD is some funny crap. It’s absolutely incoherent, and everything about the plot is deliberately absurd. Neither Ryan Reynolds nor Samuel L Motherfu*king Jackson give a good Goddamn, and that’s okay. I really needed to watch this level of total bullsh*t this evening.
Today was highly unproductive.
That just happens, sometimes. The end of the school year is suddenly looming, and every weekend is starting to have in-person stuff penciled into it. Which takes a little getting used to, I have to admit. What I’d ideally like to do is take a few days off and half-explosively decompress, but I won’t have the schedule for that for at least a month.
And I guess I just didn’t feel like writing anything today. Which is really funny, because I put together something for somebody else on how to deal with writer’s block. Physcian heal thyself, hey?
DC to back into the #Snyderverse with an INJUSTICE animated show?
Okay, fine, the answer is probably no. They’re just going to do the movie version of the cutscenes, or something. But you know me: always ready to stir the ordure.
And while I’m here: I personally cannot wait for the current crop of revisionist Superman stories finally plays out. I kind of feel bad for the folks who made SUPERMAN: RETURNS, honestly. They missed… the moment, the confidence of the studio, something… and then it all got abandoned when MAN OF STEEL came along. The irony is, I think the former will eventually end up being remembered as being the ‘real’ sequel to SUPERMAN II, while the latter will not get a critical reevaluation. Or something like that.
All that being said, turning the animated INJUSTICE movie into the animated JUSTICE LEAGUE sequel would be gonzo. If only to savor the outraged screams of everybody still upset that the Snyder Cut even got made.
May 19, 2021
‘What I Got.’
Apparently today was the day that I decided I liked this.
So much *busywork* today.
The kids have less than a month left in school, and now suddenly they’re talking about having in-person graduation ceremonies, which feels surprising. Good surprising, except: what are the kids gonna wear? At this point I declare victory if I’ve got them wearing pants and a shirt, and consider it a minor miracle if they don’t complain too much about socks.
Lotta infrastructure stuff like that, really. My SCA barony is having an event for the first time in over a year, and I’m doing spreadsheets on who has a tent or a pop-up, and where I need to assign them on the list field. I’ve got a convention to vend at, and I need to find somebody to watch the table while I go pee. We have a list of things around the house that need doing. It’s ever so slightly annoyingly weird, mostly because none of this was unusual before the pandemic and I don’t like the faint aura of unreality. The sooner everything’s back to normal, the better.
Oh, and we saw a couple of cicadas today! …Ehh, we may have been talking up this entire thing a little. So far, so underwhelming.
In which Zack Snyder throws gobbets of hot, red, and dripping raw meat to @SonnyBunch. #suckerpunch
Yeah, there’s apparently a director’s cut to SUCKER PUNCH.
“I always saw it as an indictment of, in some ways, popular culture. I think at the time I was criticized for it being the opposite, like some sort of sexist like, rant, but it was fun to make and I still love it to this day. That was the first time where I really faced like a true radical restructuring of the film for it to be more commercial and there’s a director’s cut of that movie that has yet to be released. I’ll say that out loud.”
…Heh. In his position, I would, too. Say that aloud, I mean. Say what you like about the Snyder Cut*, but it demonstrated that a remarkable amount of pressure can theoretically brought to bear on a movie studio. Oh, maybe it was just a fluke. And maybe it wasn’t. So, roll those bones again. After all, what’s the downside for Zack, here? Worst-case scenario, they just say no.
Moe Lane
*Like “When’s the DVD for it coming out?”
BEHOLD! A low-res preliminary sketch of the preliminary art for the Kickstarter!
After the fold.
There was another sketch that I liked equally well, but this one is more thematic (and, again, this is the rough sketch). And possibly spoiler-y, assuming that anybody who gets as far as backing isn’t immediately aware of the meta-joke involved in the name. Anyway, said other sketch is now its own stretch goal, so spread the word!
BEHOLD! The Flying Koala Banner!
My grommet-less empire grows.
I also made business cards – and didn’t that bring back memories. But that was the past – and this is the future. The building blocks of the great and terrible edifice that will make the very heavens themselves tremble – whoops! Sorry, skipping ahead there, sorry. For right now, I’ll be at Galactic Con on June 12th.
