Widderwhatsis?
Apr 07I’m really nerdily excited about Charles de Lint’s new Newford novel, Widdershins, due out in May. So imagine the exponential increase in excitement and nerdiness when I found this lengthy excerpt posted on his website today.
I’m especially thrilled because this is the one that finally addresses the long-simmering loooohhve between fan favorites Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. I think I was a Jilly/Geordie ‘shipper before I even knew what being a “‘shipper” meant.
A few things that struck me about this excerpt:
1. Thank freakin’ GOD Jilly finally dumped boring old Daniel. I always pictured him looking like Daniel Cosgrove, aka NotBrandon on 90210.
2. Aw, Christiana’s back! I love her. She has one of the coolest, weirdest backstories of any de Lint character, I think.
3. Is someone in their twenties really “half” Geordie’s age? Jesus. That makes me feel old. I remember these characters when they were young, hot little things themselves (of course, I think I was in high school or junior high at the time. So it’s been, ahem, a while).
Between this and X-Men 3 and all the TV season finale shiznit, May really can’t come soon enough.
For You Blue
Apr 07I finally started to catch up on all my Infinite Crisis backreading last night, when I read Countdown to Infinite Crisis, the opening chapter in which Blue Beetle gets plugged in the brain by a batshit-crazy Maxwell Lord.
Speaking of Photorealistic Fur…
Apr 07What the hell with that movie The Wild? It looks exactly like Madagascar. Not even kind of, sort of like Madagascar — exactly!
And I never even heard about it until this week. And I probably wouldn’t care, like, at all, except I was totally fascinated by this great article from Jim Hill Media on Toys R Us passing on a chance to produce some plush toys from the movie. Not even “a single piece of plush” (one of my favorite terms from the article).
Not even a single piece of plush, people!!
Battlestar Galactica wins Peabody
Apr 07A belated, brilliantly re-imagined revival of a so-so 1970s outer-space saga, the series about imperiled survivors of a besieged planet has revitalized sci-fi television with its parallax considerations of politics, religion, sex, even what it means to be “human.”
Also picking up an award were House, The Shield, and South Park. Oh, and some reporters.
We Could Be Heroes
Apr 07I’m trying to take a break from stressing over whether or not The CW is going to pick up Veronica Mars (last night? So good!! But poor Mac…I think you should go for George-Michael Bluth, Mac!) and actually look at some of the shiny new pilots currently casting and/or in production. So far, one of the most promising geekly offerings is Heroes, an ordinary-folks-with-superpowers deal.
Check it — there’s a bunch of info on the show over at TV.com.
My reaction so far:
Greg Grunberg = Yay!
Milo Ventimiglia = Boo! (though I do like you better than that Logan douchebag, Milo.)
