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March 19, 2025
COYOTE VS. ACME back on the menu?
Might be, might be: “It looks like Warner Bros. may finally be ready to sell Coyote vs. Acme, the live-action/animated hybrid film that was shelved as part of the studio’s infamous cost-cutting spree.” It’d be going for fifty million to Ketchup Entertainment, which bought another Looney Tunes movie earlier so presumably they know what they’ve signed up for.
Does this exhumation from the vaults give hope for BATGIRL fans? Are there still BATGIRL fans, after all this time? Tune in next week to find out!
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PS: I still expect this flick to demonstrate that there was a reason it got thrown in the vault to begin with, but I might be wrong.
Tweet of the Day, Respect The Hustle (And Back The Backerkit) edition.
I’ve been there. You do what you have to do. No shame, no regrets. I wish I had thought to try to use my cat.
That Backerkit link again: https://t.co/SyxwfOggSY
— Kenneth Hite (@kennethhite) March 19, 2025
03/19/2025 Snippet, PICKMAN’S MODELS.
This is getting weird.
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These stairs had to be easily ten times as long as the first set, and Tobias started wondering halfway through why his subconscious felt it necessary to make him walk through every one of them. It felt vaguely sadistic, or at least antagonistic. He told himself that it was probably an obscure punishment for some past neurosis, and kept going.
The staircase ended in a clearing of oak trees, if oak trees glowed like something out of an old Azz and Hastur cartoon. Briefly, Tobias wished that the gear on the table had included a flashlight — but then he realized it didn’t matter. The eldritch green light was easily enough to let him see the grove.
Including the bodies littering it.
Tobias squatted to look at one. It wasn’t a person, thankfully, although its paws looked far too much like hands for comfort. It sort of looked like a cat or rat, or maybe a monkey, but with tentacles where its mouth should be–
“It’s got a mouth, Boss,” Buckley’s voice came from behind him. Tobias jumped at that, and refused to feel bad about it. “A real nasty one, too,” Buckley went on, ignoring Tobias’s reaction. “All full of teeth that like to chow down on human meat.”
“I’m impressed with myself,” Tobias told Buckley. “I didn’t think I had the kind of imagination to come up with something this weird.”
03/19/2025 Snippet, LE BETE.
I’m skipping ahead a little.
The surprising thing about being elf-shot was how painless it was. It was not just the lack of physical agony, either. Joseph literally felt nothing right now, including fear, despair, or even boredom. He had always assumed that elf-shot prisoners spent their last hours upon hours contemplating their crimes before being revived and carted off to the guillotine. Actually going through it himself was quite the eye-opener.
Well. His eyes were still closed. Elf-shot did not prevent blinks from starting, but it did keep them from ending. It also affected memory more than Joseph had anticipated; from the smell of things, he had beshat and pissed himself at least once each, but he had no recollection of doing so. He was remarkably calm about that, too.
From the sounds of battle in the distance, he must have been in this state for some time. Or were they in the distance? Joseph had this odd, nagging suspicion that the fighting was actually getting closer to him, but any attempt to focus on the moment proved fruitless, without even resentment at his failure to show for it. He supposed that eventually he’d know, one way or the other. It would have been something to look forward to, but he wasn’t capable of that either right now.
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March 18, 2025
Self-Tweet of the Day, Look, I Figure Somebody’s Reading The Whole Thing, Okay? edition.
So they might as well let me know.
Quick question: is there anything in the released JFK files that CONTRADICTS the theory that Oswald was aiming at Connolly all along, but just missed? I have a manuscript where the answer to that would be relevant.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 19, 2025
The HAPPY GILMORE 2 Trailer.
…Sigh. This may be the one that convinces me to watch the nostalgia bait. Don’t ask me why the HAPPY GILMORE 2 trailer succeeded where other ones failed. It’s a mystery to me, too.
The YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY SPIDER-MAN Honest Trailer.
Plenty of spoilers in this one. Honest Trailers didn’t entirely like YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY SPIDER-MAN, but that’s cool. It did remind me to get back to the show, and that’s the important thing.
03/18/2025 Snippet, LE BETE.
Got some of it down, and the rest of the story plot. I have hopes that this will get put to bed relatively early this month.
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This is foolish, Joseph told himself again as he made his way to the Germans’ encampment. It might even be a trap. After all, Carteaux had made it clear that the Committee did not trust him with the secret of the ‘System.’
And yet, the witch-hunters were well-disposed towards him. Kraemer in particular had tried to be ingratiating over dinner, although from the look on his face he was doing so with a throat full of bile. Joseph was confident that all of that meant that a certain amount of indirect direct questioning would do no real harm. Well, mostly confident. He might face Paris’s disapproval later — but after Le Bete fell in battle, would that even matter?
Really, though, the excuses were all irrelevant. In the end, Joseph Fouché was simply curious, and he was in the sort of profession that rewards the indulgence of that habit. He was also in the sort of profession that would insulate him from the worst consequences of curiosity, which meant almost as much.
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Is it time to raise book prices?
I’m torn on this. I want to keep prices low, so that more people will buy my books. But I’m wondering whether I’ve got them too low. I don’t want them so low that people think that they’re lower quality.
Here’s the current breakdown:
BookEbookPaperbackFrozen Dreams$2.99$9.99Tinsel Rain$4.99$12.99Morgan Barod$4.99$12.99Tales From the Fermi Resolution 1$2.99$12.99Tales From the Fermi Resolution 2$4.99$13.99Ghosts on An Alien Wind$4.99$13.99(Books can be found here.) Is it finally time to push everything up to $14.99? The e-books mostly look okay, although arguably they could go up to $5.99. I honestly don’t know.
