Moe Lane's Blog, page 847
October 22, 2020
10/22/20 Snippet, FROZEN REIGN.
Just a little wordcount to get me ready for NaNoWriMo.
Patreon!They got me pretty slick, I have to admit. I picked out the first guy in the crowd right away, and I even figured out who his two buddies were. They were keeping their distance, so I wasn’t spooked just yet. But I did figure it was a great time to start moving. Graciela looked at me funny, but she spotted our friends pretty quick once I muttered “We’re being tailed.” Then she was all in.
She knew how to look without looking like she was; it’s a good skill to have. “They sicarios?” Graciala asked. She didn’t whisper or say it too fast, either. Just a casual comment on our way somewhere else. That’s how you do it.
“Nah,” I replied. “Wrong time, wrong place to start something. Not a snatch team, either. At a guess, they’re here to ‘suggest’ I come with them because I suddenly need to talk to somebody important.”
“So you wanna get away from them, Shamus?”
“Sort of. I wanna at least get to an alley where I can hear the pitch without anybody else butting in. I listen, they smack me around, maybe I smack them around. I figure I’ll end up going, either way.” She flashed me a look, and I decided to flesh that out a little. “I’m always talking to people too full of themselves to come to me. It’s a big part of the job. So we do this dance where they lie and I wisecrack. Then we break for lunch.”
October 21, 2020
Zac Snyder Alters The Deal, brings back Jared Leto for JUSTICE LEAGUE.
Snyder will likely alter it further: “Jared Leto has joined Zack Snyder’s Justice League Director’s Cut, and he will reprise his role as Joker. Leto is a part of the additional shooting that is being done for the film.” The additional shooting which was never supposed to happen in the first place. Back when this was just going to be a recut of the movie. With only some special effects added. And so on, and so forth, while all the while Snyder keeps turning the screws — and now here we are, and where we are is hilarious.
Oh, stop scowling, HBO Max: you know perfectly well that you’ll get at least a month’s revenue out of me so I can watch the Snyder Cut*. That was the idea, right? This was always the plan, correct So you can just sit there and bear up under my amused scorn. Humility is good for the soul.
Moe Lane
*I am sure that there will be some subterfuge or machination that would allow me to watch the show for free, but I choose not to attempt to figure one out. I can afford to subscribe and give the network a fair chance to make their pitch. Fair’s fair.
10/21/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
It’s been a good two days, so far: TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION has funded, and has hit its first stretch goal! Each pledge at $10 or higher will also receive a digital short story sampler of three additional stories. It’ll increase to a maximum of six, which will undoubtedly become the core of the next short story collection.
I also guessed right, alas: I suspected that the first Kickstarter had a pent-up head of steam behind it which would not be present here, and I was correct. But that’s not really a problem. I designed this Kickstarter to let me recoup my expenses in bringing this book to print, and it’s already working. Spend money to make money, and all that.
That being said: feel free to pass the link around. I wouldn’t mind at all if this Kickstarter hit ten grand. I have a plan if it does, too.
In the Mail: The Paratime Police Chronicles Vol II.
Not available on Amazon, but Pequod Press will sell you a copy if you know to ask. I asked, not least because it’s hell out there right now for small businesses. Now is the time to pick up these little items, if you can afford to.
Tweet of the Day, They’re Trustbusting Google, Huh? edition.
:monotone voice: No. Don’t. Stop.
The Goog. pic.twitter.com/nXbAlVHSgs
— Gabe (@cwgabriel) October 21, 2020
I use Google for the same reason that I use the other Big Tech products: because, bluntly, I have no practical alternative*. I have no inherent love for any of them, and I certainly have no real urge to keep them from being metaphorically gutted like a fish. I’m sure it’d be painful to bust the Google trust – but then, getting a new crown put on can be painful, too. Still has to get done.
Moe Lane
*I know there are alternatives, sure. Just no practical ones.
The US Honest Trailer.
I should watch US at some point.
The end of the Honest Trailer is a little unfair, though. No horror movie makes sense when you think about it about it too hard. Alien? Put everybody in space suits and depressurize the ship. Halloween? Michael Myers would have had no idea how to drive a damn car. The Birds? Within half a day the Army would have broken out the flamethrowers. And so on, and so on.
And do we care? Nah, not really. They’re horror movies, not attempts at realism. So don’t think too much about the rabbits, OK?
October 20, 2020
4:11:19 of Weird Al straight rock covers.
This is from his Vanity Tour a couple of years ago; somebody put together every one of the cover songs Weird Al and his band did at the end of their sets. And, as near as I can tell, Weird Al did this just so you’d know how awesome his band is. Because they can, in point of fact, rock.
Via @ItsTheJRock.
Tobey Maguire Standalone Spider-Man movie?
I’ll allow it: “It’s being rumoured that Sony Pictures is considering making a standalone Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movie in the future.” They’ve already done the heavy lifting with INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE to have… well, a Spider-Verse; and most of the objections to doing this schtick probably died when people saw Spider-Noir and Spider-Ham. Certainly I think Sony’s got enough leeway at this point to at least try it.
Seriously: sure, what the heck? Might be interesting to just go multiple-universe and don’t bother to make it all work. Just like in the comic books.
Moe Lane
Via @IMAO_, who wants Old Man Parker. …Yeah, that’s doable.
