Saturday, December 11, 2010
Part 6 of the Top Suspense Group Round Robin Story
Top Suspense Group: The Chase--Part 5
And don't forget the contest. Have you figured out which episodes I wrote? Or maybe only one of them has appeared. I forget. Anyway, have fun.
How To Train Your Dragon
Yet another dandy animated film from Dreamworks. Lots of heart, lots of laughs, lots of action. And lots of dragons. What's not to like? The setting is a Viking land where people speak in lots of different accents and dragons don't speak at all. Berk is the young, misunderstood son of Stoick, the Viking leader. The dragons are a menace, or course, and they must be killed at all costs. Or maybe not. Maybe the dragons, like Berk, are just misunderstood. That's about all I have to say, except that I liked this one a lot. Check it out.
In Henry Melton's Contest, You Can't Lose!
Idle Thoughts: Christmas Contest: "Two weeks until Christmas, just time for a quick giveaway. This time, EVERYBODY WINS."
Wisconsin Leads the Way
Teen charged with child abuse after fight with classmate - JSOnline: "A 17-year-old girl has been charged with child abuse after fighting with an older student at their high school in Wisconsin."
Custer Update
Custer battle flag sells for 2.2 million dollars - Monsters and Critics: "A flag flown by George Armstrong Custer's ill- fated battalion at the Battle of Little Bighorn fetched 2.2 million dollars at auction Friday.
The battered, blood-stained guidon was bought by a private collector at Sotheby's in New York, the auction house said.
The flag is known to be the only one flown by Custer's troops that was not destroyed or captured by the Native Americans who overwhelmed the US troops in the battle in what is now the western state of Montana."
The battered, blood-stained guidon was bought by a private collector at Sotheby's in New York, the auction house said.
The flag is known to be the only one flown by Custer's troops that was not destroyed or captured by the Native Americans who overwhelmed the US troops in the battle in what is now the western state of Montana."
12 Most Bizarre Mug Shots Of 2010
Even if you've seen these before, they're worth another glance.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Stu Shiffman Wins Rotsler Award
Stu Shiffman wins Rotsler Award - SFScope - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: "Mike Glyer announces that Stu Shiffman (of Seattle, Washington) is the winner of this year's Rotsler Award, which is 'given annually for long-time artistic achievement in amateur publications of the science fiction community.' The award, established in 1998, carries an honorarium of $300. It was formally announced on 27 November 2009, at this year's Loscon."
Once Again, Texas Leads the Way
Guanabee | Texas Film Commission Denies Tax Incentives To Machete For Negative Image Portrayal: "The Texas Film Commission has denied a tax incentive to director Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios for their production of Machete, the Mexploitation film set in that state which was shot in Austin in the summer of 2009. The letter cited part of the code that says incentives can be denied to films 'because of inappropriate content or content that portrays Texans or Texas in a negative fashion.'"
The G-Word Controversy!
Women of Mystery: Geezers, Mollydookers and Pheasant Pluckers: "Toni Kelner, over at the Short Mystery Fiction Society list, mentioned that one library refused to buy Damn Near Dead 2, because some of its patrons found the “g” word in the cover copy offensive: An Anthology of Geezer Noir. That’s too bad because this sounds like a great collection of stories. The book is edited by Bill Crider and features some fine writers including Toni Kelner, Patti Abbott, Denise Mina (amusing that geezer was more offensive than Denise’s title, but maybe no one bothered to look inside the book), S.J. Rozan, Marcia Muller, Declan Burke, and Bill Pronzini. I look forward to reading it."
The Twelve Days of Bookmas -- Day 8 #12daysbooks
Don't forget about the big contest at BookEnds. If you know the answer, click on the link and leave your answer in the comments to win free books. Or just click on the link to show the agents that I'm a power in the blogosphere. Another incentive is that one of my clues led to the winner the other day. Here's today's puzzle, followed by my clue.
In four years’ time — between my senior year of high school and junior year of college — I had to write three different papers for three different classes on the same freaking classic. On paper (so to speak), this book seems like it should be one of my favorites. But I hated it. I thought it was “ehhh—okay” the first time I read it. But by the third time I read it, I absolutely loathed that book and still kinda do to this day. And no...I wasn’t one of those students that was good at “winging it.” I couldn’t write a whole paper without re-reading. So yeah... It got pretty tired.
Then in my junior year at Penn State I discovered a lit class I loved so much that I actually decided to audit it (take it again without receiving any credit) the following semester. So yes...I read a lot of the same material twice in one year and didn’t mind THAT one bit. Did everybody in the class think I was a total geek? Um yeah.
So I need two answers from you on this one...
What was the title and author of the classic I quickly learned to hate? And what was the subject of the literature class I took twice?
Then in my junior year at Penn State I discovered a lit class I loved so much that I actually decided to audit it (take it again without receiving any credit) the following semester. So yes...I read a lot of the same material twice in one year and didn’t mind THAT one bit. Did everybody in the class think I was a total geek? Um yeah.
So I need two answers from you on this one...
What was the title and author of the classic I quickly learned to hate? And what was the subject of the literature class I took twice?
My clues: Laurence Olivier. And Laurence Olivier.
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