Ted Rabinowitz's Blog, page 36
March 17, 2013
Mendelssohn's Fantastic Almanac - the Dao-Shu
On Changtzi Mountain, in the Kingdom of Yan, lives the Dao-Shu.
It decorates.
It decorates.
Mendelssohn's Almanac - the Dao-Shu
On Changtzi Mountain, in the Kingdom of Yan, lives the Dao-Shu.
It decorates.
It decorates.
March 16, 2013
Chris Hardwick's View of Nerds
Chris Hardwick is a stand-up comic, FOWW (Friend of Wil Wheaton) and creator of The Nerdist empire - website, podcasts, and now a BBC America TV show - same channel that has Doctor Who, Sherlock, ST:TNG, and BSG. So, big-ass nerd-cred, and let me say up front, kudos.
So I was watching the latest promo for the BBCAM Nerdist show, and they're listing all the fields of Nerd-dom that Hardwick & Co are investigating.
Here's the promo.
The theme is "We welcome all kinds of nerds!" Cosplay nerds, game nerds, tech nerds, pop culture nerds, music nerds, and on, and on. And this is all great. Really.
But did you miss the one kind of nerd he didn't mention? The one activity that has defined nerd-dom for decades?
Books.
Reading.
I think that's significant.
So I was watching the latest promo for the BBCAM Nerdist show, and they're listing all the fields of Nerd-dom that Hardwick & Co are investigating.
Here's the promo.
The theme is "We welcome all kinds of nerds!" Cosplay nerds, game nerds, tech nerds, pop culture nerds, music nerds, and on, and on. And this is all great. Really.
But did you miss the one kind of nerd he didn't mention? The one activity that has defined nerd-dom for decades?
Books.
Reading.
I think that's significant.
March 13, 2013
Day of the Dolphin!
Talkin' about FlipperThe killer dolphins are coming, with blowhole-mounted cruise missiles and automated dorsal-fin lasers! Coney Island has fallen! Venice Beach is surrounded! Flee to the Midwest!Kidding, kidding.
Night of the Lepus, anybody?
March 11, 2013
Blackadder
Chances are you know
Blackadder
the BBC TV series. (If not, why not? Seriously, go watch some television!)I'd always thought that Curtis and Elton had made up the name as something suitably villainous. Turns out there actually was a Clan Blackadder in the Scottish Borderlands. Go figure.
March 9, 2013
Mendelssohn's Almanac - The Svert
The svert: A salmon-pink humanoid with a Latvian accent who confronts the socially awkward on St. Swithin's Day and makes them do folk dances.
Mendelssohn's Almanac of the Imagination - The Svert
The svert: A salmon-pink humanoid with a Latvian accent who confronts the awkward and the clumsy at midnight on St. Swithin's Day and forces them to dance embarrassing folk jigs.
March 2, 2013
February 27, 2013
My College Now Has More Nerd Cred Than I Do
Seems that Columbia, my alma mater, has acquired the entire original Elfquest archive - drawings, scripts, notes, finished sheets, the works!When I want there, it was filled with PIBs (People in Black) who smoked clove cigarettes, wore ear clips and listened to Depeche Mode. Now they actually have a Graphic Novels Librarian.
I was born too early. Sigh.
February 25, 2013
Ditching a Whole Story Line
So I've been futzing with this urban fantasy for a couple of years now. I have a story arc that makes sense and is appropriately creepy. It works. Or at least it should...but I can't quite make it happen.
I think I've figured out why. I really like the world I've set up, and the story line will take my protagonist out of that world pretty quickly. So I'm considering Going Back to Square Two - that is, keeping all my characters and worldbuilding, but using a different story.
We'll see...
I think I've figured out why. I really like the world I've set up, and the story line will take my protagonist out of that world pretty quickly. So I'm considering Going Back to Square Two - that is, keeping all my characters and worldbuilding, but using a different story.
We'll see...
