Picoreview: Bumblebee – this is a great Girl And Her Horse movie. I loved Bumblebee when I first saw it in the theatre, except the night we went, so did about 15 incredibly obnoxious teenagers who obviously didn’t really want to be there and who were unbelievably loud and rude and giggly and stupid through the first half of the film, after which they either left or were kicked out, I can’t remember. So mostly I didn’t hear any of the first half and really liked the second half, and…
…but only books one and two, because three isn’t out until next year, :sobs: :) These are by Invisible Library author Genevieve Cogman, who thought “What if Scarlet Pimpernel, but with vampires?” What results is a rampage through revolutionary-era France with our lead character, Eleanor, a maid in a vampire’s estate, being swept into the Pimpernel’s cadre due to Reasons, and her gradual emotional and intellectual journey from the unquestioning “of course the world is ordered as it should be” to “waaaaiiiiiit a minute,” and it’s a goddamn delight. Genevieve,…
Elsewhere a friend posted an image of all the upcoming/in development Marvel projects, of which there were…many…like, over 20…and made a comment about whether it was art or industry. It turned out I had some feelings on that. :) I think Marvel walks an interesting line between art and industry. A lot of it’s industry, which is fine because it IS an industry. And since I find, IDK, probably 80% of that industry’s product to be entertaining, I’m pretty happy with that. My problems with the industry aspect of it…
G’morning, mes amis. I’m in a reasonably good mood this morning, possibly because I slept something like 23 hours out of the 48 hour weekend. And I was going to blog about the weekend, and probably still will, but possibly not until tomorrow because today I’m going to hit you with something I mostly don’t do. My friend and cover artist Skyla was harrangued by her friends into running a Birthday GoFundMe for what are really basic life necessities, including stuff like a bed to put her mattress on, groceries,…
In a blog post of spectacular unimportance, I am so very happy to say that my dumb ear, in which I got a helix piercing on October 19, 2022, has actually healed! The remainder of this post may involve vague grossness that the delicate among us might not want to read. Not lots of grossness, but a bit. :) After noticing that it seemed to have (for want of a better phrase) dried up a lot recently, I went in to have it checked yesterday. The nice woman, who I…