My pal Mags's novel is now available via both amazon dot co dot uk and amazon dot com at the very fair prices of UKP9.02 and USD12.21. Eligible for free delivery and despatched in 24 hours.
What's that? Why buy it? It is not Buffy, Angel, Spire nor anything Whedonesque...?
It's set in the Boxer Rebellion and was provoked by watching Fool for Love too many times. It has kick-boxing heroines fighting it out with sabres. What more could you want?
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Monday, September 26, 2005
Otters
What are you?
I'm an otter. I swim around on my back doing cute little human things with my hands.
Thank you, you're free to go. What are you?
I'm a cow--
Get on the back of the truck!
-- Bill Hicks.
Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman in conversation. They are otters.
Gaiman: One of the reasons that both Joss and I can do some of the stuff that we've done over the years is because you're working in a medium in which enough stuff has simply entered popular culture that it becomes part of the vocabulary that we can deal with. The materials of fantasy, of all different kinds of fantasy, the materials of SF, the materials of horror...it's pop culture. It's tattooed on the insides of our retinas. As a result, it's something that's very easy just to use as metaphor. You don't have to explain to anybody what a vampire is. You don't have to explain the rules. Everybody knows that. They know that by the time they're five.
I'm an otter. I swim around on my back doing cute little human things with my hands.
Thank you, you're free to go. What are you?
I'm a cow--
Get on the back of the truck!
-- Bill Hicks.
Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman in conversation. They are otters.
Gaiman: One of the reasons that both Joss and I can do some of the stuff that we've done over the years is because you're working in a medium in which enough stuff has simply entered popular culture that it becomes part of the vocabulary that we can deal with. The materials of fantasy, of all different kinds of fantasy, the materials of SF, the materials of horror...it's pop culture. It's tattooed on the insides of our retinas. As a result, it's something that's very easy just to use as metaphor. You don't have to explain to anybody what a vampire is. You don't have to explain the rules. Everybody knows that. They know that by the time they're five.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
It's Not Porn, I Swear!
I am silent on the Buffyverse front. Although I am not sure whether to be amused or alarmed by the idea of a Spike movie. When someone raised it - and the various points at which it could be set - I realised I had passed the Fanfic Event Horizon because it didn't occur to me for at least five minutes that, you know, it won't be set after Angel because Spike is probably dead. I read so much post-Angel fic with Spike who survived the alleyway that I totally forgot that canonically he's dead. Again. I'm half thinking "isn't he in Rome fighting the Immortal?" before remembering that is only in Mortal Wounds, Treacle_A's fic.
Meanwhile, I have seen Serenity.
I'm also having strange feelings for the hobbity actor from Lost. All these years of Spike lust have left me programmed to like whichever character in an American series who:
a) is English
b) has a regional accent
c) is prone to rock star behaviour
d) is a scruffy skank.
Thus I find Mason from Dead Like Me rather sweet despite the fact he'd be an utter millstone if you knew him and am now considering ignoring Charlie's lack of height. Thank the Gods I don't watch House.
My main online pasttime these days is being snarky in the comments on Bam's blog. It's Not Porn, I Swear. It is Evil. It is fun.
Meanwhile, I have seen Serenity.
I'm also having strange feelings for the hobbity actor from Lost. All these years of Spike lust have left me programmed to like whichever character in an American series who:
a) is English
b) has a regional accent
c) is prone to rock star behaviour
d) is a scruffy skank.
Thus I find Mason from Dead Like Me rather sweet despite the fact he'd be an utter millstone if you knew him and am now considering ignoring Charlie's lack of height. Thank the Gods I don't watch House.
My main online pasttime these days is being snarky in the comments on Bam's blog. It's Not Porn, I Swear. It is Evil. It is fun.
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