Ian McKellan posted this great picture of him and Patrick Stewart at their first rehearsal for their upcoming Broadway shows, and I was like I WANTS ALL OF THEM NAO PLIZ So now I’m all like, can we get, like, some kind of massive epic fantasy film of some kind with, like, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, and George Takei all, like, vying for Helen Mirren’s hand while Judi Dench and Maggie Smith connive in the background or something? Which I said on Facebook, and Harold immediately won the internet by…
oh! *sniffle*!
Oh! A month or so ago, Ardian Syaf asked me to do a foreword for his sketchbook for the Singapore Toy Game & Comic Convention, because, as he said, “Considering you’re one of the person who discovered me before Marvel or DC comics did, I think it’s just perfect ” So of course I was delighted to, and I’ve just received a copy of the sketchbook in the mail. It’s beautiful, which I expected. What I didn’t expect is that the last page was left blank so he could do…
periscope up!
For a minute, anyway. I have written a glorious 3K words over the past 2 days, largely thanks to Michelle (and today Mika!) showing up in the war room at god-awful hours for them (well, not so bad for Mika) so that I have real focus and incentive to get in there the moment Young Indiana goes to preschool and get myself writing. #swoons I’d have gotten more done, probably, except yesterday I started a new manuscript, put the file together, then had the vague sense that maybe I’d done…
exciting morning & weekend report
Well, that was far more excitement than one wants at 6:20am on a Monday morning. We were getting Young Indiana’s bath ready, which involves running the water until it’s hot, then turning it off again because it gets so hot that you can’t put the plug in the tub. Young Indiana turned it off, but he turned it the wrong way (and I was using the toilet, so not standing over him to supervise) and the handle came off the faucet, causing scalding water to spurt up through the now-open…
Picoreview: Riddick
I would write a picoreview of Riddick, except Ursula has already pretty well nailed it. Every time I watch a Riddick film I want to write a character like him (only female, because me). The whole baddest bad guy who is the lesser of two evils in a bad situation kind of character. I love that character (okay, *especially* when growled by Vin Diesel), and frankly I’d love to write whole Chronicles story my own way. (I’m actually hugely relieved they didn’t get to make another Riddick movie immediately after…