So… I see we can expect Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes in a couple of years. With corporate product placements becoming quite the all-pervasive force, I wonder if there’ll be a change of title by the time the movie is released? … Read more
…one copy bought in the UK, and one copy bought at an unspecified location in Europe. 😆 That’s kinda funny, but here’s the catch: I haven’t really gotten started on promoting the thing heavily to the fan sites yet (that’s my weekend project). These people just found it.
Now here’s a positively surreal sight that I can barely get my head around. … Read more
Okay. Small rant here in the run-up to OVGE and the “live” debut of VWORP!1. It’s taken me long enough to get this book out the door that I’ve watched my good friend Rob O’Hara get two books out the door, and I’ve had time to take in how he’s handled presentation and marketing a bit (not to mention that he provides that advice freely from the get-go). Accordingly, I spent a little bit of money – not a whole lot, but more than I usually do – on signage and presentation for OVGE this year. I had stuff made by other folks instead of rolling my own out of my long-suffering inkjet printer. … Read more
For the “about the author” photo in the back of VWORP!1, I constructed a “set” using plastic shipping crates that a local store’s been getting rid of fairly cheaply; they’re awfully handy things to have around. For lightweight items, they actually make pretty nice shelving. I threw a few knick-knacks from my vast knick-knack collection in there, set them up next to a window where I already have marquees from old arcade games set up, and boom, it looks like I live in a warehouse full of geek-a-licious relics. Which, of course, I do.
A hundred years ago today, the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century took place on the Alaskan peninsula. Actually, it was probably the biggest eruption for a hundred years either side of June 6th, 1912. And what did it leave?
Photo: Pavel Izbekov, Alaska Volcano Observatory / University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
A molehill instead of a mountain. … Read more
…and you can order it here.
This has been a long process, to say the least. I set out to write this book in 2008, and quickly discovered that it wouldn’t be as easy as “putting the web site on paper.” Nor should it have been – that would’ve been incalculably lazy. What resulted was something far better than that, something that took a hell of a lot more work than that, something that looks pretty decent as an actual book, and something that hopefully everyone will like reading and referring to as much as I liked putting it together.
WARP!1 is coming along nicely; I did a little bit of work on it this morning. There’s no time to pause and reflect. This is merely the next step on the road.… Read more
Dinner (by very specific request from Little E):
…apples, raisins, carrots, bananas. Thanks to his recent repeated reading of “The Berenstain Bears Eat Too Much Junk Food,” Little E is convinced that everything is junk food. I’ve assured him that this stuff is not, and so he loads up on it. C’mon, kid. It’s summer vacation. You’re a preschooler. These flavor blasted Goldfish ain’t gonna eat themselves. … Read more
…my book coming out this week, or this soundtrack coming out this week.
I suppose the good news is, if the book sells well enough, I could probably afford the soundtrack. 😆 We’re going on and on about it in the forums if you’re into that sorta thing.… Read more
They tell me my invite was lost in the mail. Not buyin’ that story.… Read more
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