http://fanaticalpupil.com Just another guy making decent money and wishing he wasn't Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:20:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I made it a rule when I started blogging to never apologize for not posting in a long time. That's what RSS feeds are for. So, without further apology, let me just say that I got a new dog, and it's taken me longer to get adjusted to him than ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/08/19/its-too-late-to-apologize/ This week's fiction: 429 This week's non-fiction: 0 (uh-oh) So, if I write 429 words per week (which seems to be my max at this point), I'll have 90,000 in only 4 years! In the mean time... I need to figure out when I'm going to finish all my player profiles for the ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/30/writing-word-count-wednesday-730/ I don't remember anyone pointing this out in any of the various blog post recaps I read of his seminar at Gresham College came out just after the seminar, but Stephenson said (about 26:08): It's a miracle, actually, that Gresham College was able to get me over here during the middle ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/25/neal-stephenson-is-an-nba-fan/ In addition to reading all the Heroes graphic novels this summer, I'm also listening to last.fm to see how often Hayen Panettiere comes up in My Neighbourhood Station. (Check out those related artists, and feel free to leave embarrassing comments) And for the people who will undoubtedly arrive here from ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/24/prepping-for-the-return-of-heroes/ So, despite spending 3 days in NYC (working during the day, partying at night) and then driving 13 hours on Saturday (not to mention spending 4 hours in Scranton), I managed to get 446 words this week, topping the 416 cobbled together over the prior 2 weeks. Another random picture (taken ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/23/writing-word-count-wednesday-723/ Click here to get Karen Traviss' first book City of Pearl for free, available until August 1st. Traviss is the author of four Star Wars Republic Commando books and three of the Legacy of the Force books (of which I've read one). You can preview City of Pearl with this fancy ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/22/add-to-the-reading-list-karen-traviss-city-of-pearl-free/ I had just seen some posters up (NYC-style 8x2 glue-up posters) for The Spirit last night, and then found SFSignal's "At the Trailer Park" (one of my favorite series on their site) with a trailer for The Spirit. Oh, wait, I still haven't seen Sin City nor 300. It ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/18/the-spirit-from-sf-signal/ Now, I didn't do WCW last week because I was on a schooner, sailing around islands in Maine. I should have been writing (well, at least, I should have been writing more), but instead I read Stephen King's The Gunslinger. I did at least get through the whole book. And ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/16/writing-word-count-wednesday/ From Jeff VanDermeer (click through for the trailer on YouTube): The Fall is one of the most visually striking movies you're likely to see, but the fantasy element is firmly tied to the emotional resonance of the realistic scenes set in a hospital. Some reviewers have complained that the fantasy element ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/15/movie-to-see-the-fall/ Not sure when this popped up, but there is now a little more lengthy description of the plot of Neal Stephenson's book on Amazon (comes out in September): Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work ... http://fanaticalpupil.com/2008/07/14/update-on-anathem-neal-stephenson/