December 31, 2007
11:02 am
Things are nice and quiet in our Belmont apartment at the moment. There is a jet passing somewhere overhead, the cats are playing outside my office door so the bells on their collars are going jingle-jangle-jingle in a muffled sort of way, my computer tower is whirring softly on the floor beside me and the […]
December 23, 2007
10:23 am
Not particularly holiday-related, but I’d like to share a recent short piece nevertheless. Embers alight, tiny bulbs flickering on Smoke smoulders and crackling chars the scents and sounds of home Comfortably warm in blistering heat, cool and relaxed in licks of blue flame I stretch out and snuggle deeper beneath a quilt of ash My […]
December 21, 2007
5:08 pm
A couple of little notes before leaving the office for the rest of 2007… Tori Amos comic anthology coming in 2008. Comic Book Tattoo: awesome. Mass Effect as transmedia property. I smell a paper. Dead Space as transmedia property. I smell another paper. PICNIC conference videos. Must-see TV.
December 19, 2007
1:18 pm
Award-winning indie game Aquaria now available. Coming soon for the Mac. Dragon Quest IV trailer. Bring on Dragon Warrior for the DS! Craig Thompson work-in-progress. I love to see the evolution of this stuff. Humans are evolving faster. And here I thought it’d slowed down. Courtesy Uncle Warren. BusinessWeek: Hollywood’s Quest for Innovation. A-yup. Noctem […]
December 14, 2007
10:13 am
Congratulations to Aurelia’s brother Matt, who just sold his first novel! Amy Einhorn preempted world rights to Matthew Flaming’s first novel, The Kingdom of Ohio, for her imprint at Putnam; Stephanie Cabot at the Gernert Company made the sale. Set in New York City in 1901, the book revolves around a young workman on the […]
CNN: Scientist finds fossilized claw of man-sized sea scorpion. The B-movies are real! The B-movies are real!
December 2, 2007
10:42 pm
Any lingering doubts in my mind that I am really and truly an adult have been thoroughly obliterated by the following fact: on Friday, I treated myself to a copy of Rock Band as an early birthday present, and now, just before bedtime on Sunday night, it’s still sitting in its shrink wrap in our […]
