I wonder if this adaptation of the Pooh Bear stories is based off of my old comic?
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Blood and Chocolate
My wife and I met the author of this book at Conbust – that’s the Smith College sci-fi and general geekery convention where we’ve shown the Smithee Awards for the past few years. Now that I’ve (finally!) read this book, I can watch the movie version of it – a movie which the author really, really dislikes.
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Blood Lite
This book is a collection of short horror stories. The title is a bit misleading – only a few of the stories involve vampires, but the collection as a whole does shed a bit of blood.
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Champagne for One
Book 23 is the second half of the Nero Wolfe double-feature that I finished yesterday. This was kind of an odd book to read – it was one of the stories adapted for the A&E Mystery series, so there was no surprise as to whodunnit or how it was actually done. On the other hand, it was fun to see what was kept and what was changed between the page and the screen.
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Too Many Cooks
We did some traveling this weekend, and I’m one of those fortunate people who can read on a plane without suffering from motion sickness.
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A Memorial
This week’s comic is in memory of Isaak, a wonderful cat and frequent guest star of Quirk’s Evil Little Webcomic.
Fun with clouds
And now, just for fun, a Wordle word cloud of the text from the play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Click to embiggen and to go to the Wordle webstie.
Magic Smoke
This week’s comic answers a lot of difficult questions about advanced technology.
Persuader
Persuader is Book 21 of the year. Lee Child wrote it. The main character is Reacher. Jack Reacher. He thinks and talks in very short sentences, and he’s extremely good at killing people. That was rather a long sentence. For Jack.
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