Christopher Farnsworth's Blog, page 14

9.11.01

The first anniversary of 9/11 we were living in Santa Monica, about as far as possible as it was to get from the sites of the attack and still be in the continental United States. But there was a memorial service at the firehouse just around the corner from our apartment and we decided to [...]

I Love A Parade…

THE PRESIDENT'S VAMPIRE has made PARADE magazine's Father's Day Gift Guide. (The only other novel to make the cut? Michael Connelly's THE FIFTH WITNESS.) So if you haven't already, buy a copy for your dear old dad and treat him to some vampire mayhem. It will make that pack of golf balls from your little [...]

More of the DC Reboot…

Maybe I'll regret saying this, but I think DC is bringing some game to its reboot ideas. The list of titles looks very much like the one I tally up in my head when I dream that I've been named DC's editor-in-chief: OMAC — One of Jack Kirby's greatest creations: the One Man Army Corps, [...]

Out of the Brainpan, Into the Fire…

Stuff I've been reading and pondering lately. Doc Savage. Beau Smith actually got me started thinking about my favorite pulp hero again, and then the AV Club chimed in on the mostly awful 1976 movie adaptation of the Man of Bronze. DC Comics recently cancelled its line of "First Wave" titles, which included its latest [...]

The Future Hates Us

There are days I feel like the future is out to kill us all. Like it's some version of SkyNet in The Terminator, sending murder-cyborgs back to collide with the past and ensure its own existence. News like this doesn't help: TSA Warns Of Possible Threat Involving Implanted Bombs. The TSA finally has a plausible [...]

Random Thoughts On A Monday

I'm full-on into Scalzi time (Is the novel done? No? Then NO BLOGGING.) but here are some links since I have not posted here in approximately a century. A beautiful and haunting video of an abandoned water park by Mike Eisenberg. *** INT. RESTAURANT – DAY ME: Hey, I notice you guys don't have those desserts [...]

I Am Not At Comic-Con

Right now, at this moment, there are bins of half-price trade paperbacks going unfondled by me. There are lines of people waiting for hours for the chance to see movie trailers a month before everyone else and I am not one of them. There might be a 40-year-old nerd embarrassing himself in front of Paul [...]

Amoral Calculus, or Blues for a T-shirt

To fully understand what a big part of my character is rooted in useless guilt, let's consider the following brain-twister I went through this weekend before buying T-shirts. I spilled some bleach on my favorite T-shirt a week ago, leaving great purple stains all along the hem. That this even upset me shows I haven't [...]

The Bright Orange Dust Of The Past

Finally broke down and bought a bag of the "taco flavored" Throwback Doritos, which come in a bag marked like the first generation of Doritos back in the 70s. I seem to remember the original bags having a clear cellophane window instead of a photo on the front, so you could see if the chips [...]

Can Comics Be Saved… Before It's Too Late?

I know I'm late to discuss DC's complete reboot of its comic-book universe — sue me, I've been finishing a novel — but I'm fascinated by what it's going to mean for the industry if it works. First, Geoff Boucher and Ben Fritz have an interesting piece at the LA Times' Hero Complex about the [...]