* Hot-cha! One of my favorite bloggers, Sean of Strange Ink, has returned to blogging.
* Ex-Wizardite-turned-nerd-blogger FIGHT! Wiz refugee Rob Bricken at Topless Robot calls out MTV’s Splash Page, administered by Wiz refugees Casey Seijas and Rick Marshall–swell fellas, all three–over rumormongering. Unlike the welcome demise of Fred Pierce, this is one thing we can’t all agree on I suppose. I’ll be over here with my popcorn.
* UPDATE: Rick Marshall replies with customary tact and restraint. (I kid because I love!)
* Two from Tor, part one: Heather Massey pitches Charles Burns’s exquisite teen erotic/horror graphic novel Black Hole to the sci-fi masses.
* Two from Tor, part two: Torie Atkinson takes us inside the mind of a World of Warcraft character facing down the zombie apocalypse. Meanwhile, in the comment thread, Bruce Baugh dissents on grounds that make a lot of sense if you’re coming from where Bruce is coming from regarding why games are played. From my outsider’s perspective, however, unpredictable awfulness should be as much of a factor in an RPG like this as it is in the real world–perhaps moreso, given that the real world isn’t in imminent danger of demonic invasion (spiritual warfare adherents excepted).
* Rick Trembles’ Motion Picture Purgatory comic review of Dawn of the Dead is (amusingly) much more review than comic. I appreciate the emphasis he places on the casting of the film and how nearly everything everyone remembers about the movie arises quite naturally from the characters and their situation.
* Fangoria interviews artist Dominic Harman about the set of new covers he’s created for Clive Barker’s books. The unused samples on display are a little too horror-y for my taste; I very much liked the editions that used relevant snippets from preexisting paintings.
* I have this same problem anytime I read about My Bloody Valentine, too. Only I tend to go “BOPBOPBOPBOP BRRRRREEEEEEEOOOOO BRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEOOOOWWWW BRRRRREEEEEEEEOOOOO BRRRREEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW.” The difference is negligible.
… and don’t even get me started on you and your gorram popcorn!
*hides*
Ha!
Man, I miss the counterpoint you provided to my temper back in the day. I think I need a “Portable Sean T. Collins” to put on my desk and remind me that every action does not always require a reaction.
Hmm… A “Sean T. Collins Bobblehead,” perhaps? Or a “Sean T. Collins Minimate”?
Thanks for the link lovin’. I was going to start a new blog, but laziness triumphed over initiative. So, yeah, I’m a big ol’ flip flopper.
We should start a support group or something. We can’t be the only ones who suffer from this.