I took the phews to the Simpsons over the weekend. So far (in my opinion) its the only film this summer to deliver the goods. The laughs slow down for a bit after the first half hour but by that time we needed a break from the hilarity. For pure nonstop laughter I'd rate it second only to The Naked Gun. The kids are already trying to suck me in to taking them again. Maybe Thursday.

I meant to ask this to FPW, yet not once in the three days of us being together at Necon did I think of it - not even when he was signing the first page of "The Barrens" out of Cthulhu 2000.

Upon re-reading "The Barrens," I was astonished to notice the name Creighton pop up (as the surname of one of the main characters, who I might add was apparently a psychology student at one point...). And of course, anyone who has read Bloodline knows of the Creighton Institute.

So, there being "no more coincidences" in the worlds of the Otherness, does this mean something? Or is it more like Stephen King setting his story "Jerusalem's Lot" in the same town as 'salem's Lot, yet neither work really reflects upon the other in any other way?

Link

1500 inmates of a Korean prison doing a performance of Michael Jackson's Thriller.

This has got to be the weirdest thing I've seen all week, and I dread to think what they did with the 'love interest' at the end of the day! :p

Beowulf! I've been waiting for this one! 1999 version was terrible, but this one is great! Directed by Robert Zemeckis, screenplay by Neil Gaiman &
Roger Avary.......oh, man! I can't wait!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/...large.html



I envy you, people in US & UK. You can see it in November, but I have to wait until next March!

[SIZE="3"]Just heard from Borderlands that they were moving stock and found 15 copies of THE LITTLE BEIGE BOOK...

They're giving rj.com Forum folks first crack at the original cover price of $20. It won't be on their website, so call them at 800-528-3310. You snooze, you lose.

Even if you have a copy, it's a good investment[/SIZE]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SIGNED-LTD-F-PAUL-...dZViewItem

Great buy - strongly recommend this

I don't know if anyone has seen this but it just came out on DVD Tuesday. We LOVED it. It's kind of like a reverse fairy-tale (you'd have to watch to understand what I mean without any spoilers). I'm too tired to really give a review, but I will say this: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille will captivate you as much as Hannibal Lecter did.

I find it an interesting phenomenon...a sci-fi, fantasy,
and/or Horror Writer's Book Series

Though he is famous for his dozens of published novels, and over
100 published short stories, the late Roger Zelazny will probably
be most remembered for his "Amber series."

The same goes for the late Fred Saberhagen, now most
remembered for his Swords, and Lost Swords, series, seconded
by his Berserker Books, thirded by his Dracula Books,
and next by his Gods Books...

The still-living Philip Jose Farmer, best known for his
Riverworld Series, followed by his Dayworld Series,
followed by his World of Tiers series (which started
out brilliantly, but dragged over WAY too many years
between books and so creatively fizzled right out
with the creation and publication of the last two books
which were obviously only written to wrap things up, or
complete some publisher contract requirement)...and
let's not forget that Farmer also had a Father Carmody
short stories series, oh, and Farmer's Tarzan/Doc Savage
tribute two-book series of Lord Grandrith/Doc Caliban
tales...

Just as Paul will be remembered for his Repairman Jack
series of books, seconded by the six-book umbrella-series
known as The Adversary Cycle, followed up by the
LaNague Universe of short stories and books...

Or wil Paul start up some other series after the
Repairman Jack (and young Repairman Jack) books?

Maybe a spinoff series from Black Wind? White Wind. Brown
Wind. Red Wind. Green Wind...set it from 1945-2000,
and have it be about the half-japanese, half-american,
child born at the end of Black Wind...who grows up to
be an adventurer, and teams up with some operatives
from The Twins "Alternate's" organization, and fight
evil from 1965-2000, paralleling real-life historical
events that occurred during that time...

Whoa! Sorry. Slipped into fantasy daydreaming mode
there.

Time to sip some ice cold diet cherry vanilla dr. pepper
and get back to editing some nice exciting engineering
society papers. Oh joy....

Mike out :p

TRAILER A

I have never actually played the Hitman computer game, it always looked like a poor man's Splinter Cell to me.

But the movie looks pretty good. It looks like an interesting mix of Transporter style euro-action with spooky religious conspiracy stüffe.

Will definitely try to watch this one when it's released.

My partner is presently working her way through The Adversary Cycle after reading the Repairman Jack series up until Infernal.

She asked me a question last night that I was sure of the answer to. In the beginning of Reborn, the doctor fella dies in a plane crash. She is certain that someone else has died in a plane crash, and was wondering whether it was maybe the same plane crash? I honestly can't remember anybody else dying in a plane crash, but knowing how often FPW's stories intersect one another, I wondered if maybe someone else was on the plane as well?

She thinks it might be Ricardo Westphalen, but I am positive he got eaten by Rakosh. I don't know which book to start looking in, so thought it might be easier just to ask you guys.

Is she right? Or is she stooopid? :confused: