Interesting Times
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tealinThis, from Animated News:
I love this comic book... I sure hope they do a good job. But if it's based on history, then there won't be any Emperor Zombie! Unless Emperor Zombie is somehow responsible for, say, um ... um ... What was going on in the 1860s that wasn't the Civil War? (So much for AP History...)
Also, a change of address: I now have a Gmail account thanks to the wonderful Crystal Mage... it iiiissss: twirlynoodle at gmail.com (though with the funky @, of course, trying to evade spambots here)
5:15 pm
I'm listening to Mossflower now, one of my second-favourites in the series. And I've picked up exactly where I left off with it: coming up with a film abridgement in my head. In my opinion, it's the best suited for a movie, and what a movie it could make! Not only is there thrilling adventure but the core arcs can have enough non-essential business cut out of them to make the thing less than seven hours long, without butchering the important parts. There's no need for the Gloomer sequence or the long treasure hunt to find the directions to Salamandastron, or (thinking ahead from where I am in the recording at the moment) the episode with the bats, or the swan, or any number of other things that make for amusing reading but really don't do anything for the plot.
A couple side notes: Whoever reads the voice of Columbine on this recording sounds exactly like Babs from Chicken Run - it's very distracting. (Luckily she hasn't mentioned gravy or holidays yet.) And I've discovered who it is that Jacques remind me of... I'd always assumed it had to be Lupin but it had never felt right, because Jacques is far more of an activist and less of a mentor. He's Mask!
7:09 pm
If the CBC could have had an expression yesterday, it would have been this:
They lost the coverage rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics to CTV/Global. [Story] It started out as the third or fourth thing on the hourly newscast and soon worked its way up to second on the hour and first on the half hour. 'We didn't know it was an auction,' they said grumpily. 'We thought it was about quality.' And 'Dang it, our coverage was so good they piped it into IOC Headquarters! Why do they suddenly hate us so?' And eventually a sullen 'How does CTV expect to actually make this money back?'
Fuller Turns Screw-On Head
"After some fits and starts, [Bryan Fuller] is moving ahead with his upcoming animated alternative series Amazing Screw-On Head," Sci-Fi Wire reports. Based on a comic by Hellboy's Mike Mignola, the series is set to air on the SCI FI Channel next year. "'The Mignola comic book is brilliant absurdism,' Fuller said in an interview. 'We took [the] concept of the comic book — which is a robot head that screws into a variety of robot bodies and fights crime with President Lincoln in the late 1800s — and decided to tell the 'real' story of the history that we read in books, like what would be between the pages of the history books.'"
I love this comic book... I sure hope they do a good job. But if it's based on history, then there won't be any Emperor Zombie! Unless Emperor Zombie is somehow responsible for, say, um ... um ... What was going on in the 1860s that wasn't the Civil War? (So much for AP History...)
Also, a change of address: I now have a Gmail account thanks to the wonderful Crystal Mage... it iiiissss: twirlynoodle at gmail.com (though with the funky @, of course, trying to evade spambots here)
5:15 pm
I'm listening to Mossflower now, one of my second-favourites in the series. And I've picked up exactly where I left off with it: coming up with a film abridgement in my head. In my opinion, it's the best suited for a movie, and what a movie it could make! Not only is there thrilling adventure but the core arcs can have enough non-essential business cut out of them to make the thing less than seven hours long, without butchering the important parts. There's no need for the Gloomer sequence or the long treasure hunt to find the directions to Salamandastron, or (thinking ahead from where I am in the recording at the moment) the episode with the bats, or the swan, or any number of other things that make for amusing reading but really don't do anything for the plot.
A couple side notes: Whoever reads the voice of Columbine on this recording sounds exactly like Babs from Chicken Run - it's very distracting. (Luckily she hasn't mentioned gravy or holidays yet.) And I've discovered who it is that Jacques remind me of... I'd always assumed it had to be Lupin but it had never felt right, because Jacques is far more of an activist and less of a mentor. He's Mask!
7:09 pm
If the CBC could have had an expression yesterday, it would have been this:
They lost the coverage rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics to CTV/Global. [Story] It started out as the third or fourth thing on the hourly newscast and soon worked its way up to second on the hour and first on the half hour. 'We didn't know it was an auction,' they said grumpily. 'We thought it was about quality.' And 'Dang it, our coverage was so good they piped it into IOC Headquarters! Why do they suddenly hate us so?' And eventually a sullen 'How does CTV expect to actually make this money back?'
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Date: 2005-02-09 01:41 am (UTC)I can't wait to read Mossflower. It's sounds so vode!
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Date: 2005-02-09 07:45 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to this cartoon! I hope they go full out alternative instead of trying to fitfully carve the round peg of adult entertainment so that it fits the square socket of children's programming. I mean... only JK Rowling can do that, right? Successfully, I mean. Oh! And Ren & Stimpy. Huh! Could you imagine Ren & Stimpy as children's programming these days? Giggle.
secret garden?
Date: 2005-03-26 06:18 am (UTC)by the way i love your art!