Moe Lane's Blog, page 788
January 5, 2021
Yeah, it was a light posting day.
Deadline for the baronial newsletter. Normally it’s not a problem, but this month some stuff that I’m peripherally involved with is going on and I needed to make sure it got into the newsletter all nice and whatnot. Couple that with a need to handle all the things going on with the second day of school back and it’s amazing where the time went.
And, to be truthful about it: the short story fiction is kind of looming over my head right now. I told myself a couple of days off was understandable, but the couple of days are over. Got to get back on top of things…
The SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION Honest Trailer.
I’m not exactly sure why. Apparently THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION made the top of some list? Anyway: it’s a good movie and Honest Trailers didn’t feel the urge to rip it apart too much. I’m disappointed they didn’t bring in Morgan Freeman to do the narration, but you know what they say: when you start out, nobody knows to pay you your worth – but when you’ve proved your worth, nobody can afford to pay it. :chuckle: I guess that’s just the way it is, in this busy world of ours…
Disney+ bringing TV time slots to streaming?
It feels that way, based on this bit from GeekTyrant about WANDAVISION: “WandaVision kicks off on Disney+ on January 15, 2021 and it will roll right into the final Friday before The Falcon and The Winter Soldier premieres on March 19.” Nine episodes, by the way – but it’s the part about how they’ll be dropping new episodes every Friday, and presumably they have shows lined up for after F&TWS’s last episode.
I guess This Is The Way now, huh? THE MANDALORIAN worked out (probably better than it would have if all the episodes dropped at once), so the Mouse is going to regularly drop new content on Fridays and not fuss overmuch if that turns out to be the big viewing day. After all, they’re not selling advertising on Disney+. Or at least not yet.
Moe Lane
PS: It’s odd how there’s no THE MANDALORIAN DVD. I have no theories as to why, mind you. I just find it generally odd.
January 4, 2021
Tweet of the Day, Why Then, This Is Hell; Nor Am I Out Of It edition.
Noooooooo….
[At the supermarket]
— sarcasmsbully (@sarcasmbully) January 5, 2021
Cashier: "May I see some ID for the beer?"
Me: "Sure." (holds up license)
Cashier: "Okay, you're cool. I see the '1'."
Me: "The '1'?"
Cashier: "The '1' at the beginning of your birth year."
Me: "Oh God…"
Cashier: "Happy New Year!" pic.twitter.com/zHm1FwbTwc
Back to school!
And it wasn’t too bad, in fact: the kids got back into the class routine pretty well. They might have even missed it, a little. Played merry hell with my writing and posting schedule, though.
But that’s all right, since we’re not doing too badly on that front for right now. I need to create another spreadsheet to work out what’s getting worked on this month. And here I thought that there would be no math…
Second editorial pass-through of TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION completed.
I am now working out with the editor whether we need her to do a third, or whether the usual system of me taking a look, my wife talking a look, we order a proof and I take another look, and the post-publication revelations of every typo that missed the previous eight to ten rounds of scrutiny will suffice. Either way, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is ahead of schedule. So much so that I need to get cracking on the sampler. Fortunately, that and the cover layout are the two major things that I need to take care of.
Pre-order TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION here.
In the E-Mail: BETWEEN HOME AND RUIN.
I might have been able to score a copy of Karl Gallagher’s BETWEEN HOME AND RUIN (sequel to STORM BETWEEN THE STARS), because we’re Internet buds – but at three bucks it’s a steal anyway. This series is hard SF with human-sounding dialogue and the last one had a good plot; I’ll let you know how this one goes. But do pick up the first book, if you haven’t yet. It’s worth your time and attention.
Movies based on Barbie, Rubik’s Cube in development.
I wanna say ‘God help us’ – in fact, I will say ‘God help us’ because there’s no way that we’d get versions of either that anybody reading this would want to watch. No, really. I’ve got elevator pitches for both.
Rubik’s Cube. Invented behind the Iron Curtain, in a captive state whose counter-revolt was crushed decades before. A man trapped in that ensnared, grayed-out land seeks to create a teaching tool, and discovers he has made a puzzle of color and possibilities. Can it be solved?Barbie. Margo Robbie starring? Then I just need five words, my friends: War crimes for the Gipper . Huh? HUH?
I think that both of these would work. Never gonna see ’em, though. Particularly the last one*.
Moe Lane
*To be fair, you can more or less pitch any stupid movie concept as ‘War crimes for the Gipper’ and it immediately gets 10x better.
