Hey gang, sorry I've been absent. A quick note:

Paul has done the inscriptions for Nightworld -- all will ship out by this Saturday. Thank you for your patience.

We got shorted on our shipment of the Keep Graphic Novel TPB and are waiting for more copies to come in next week, so we won't have signed copies of these for about 2 weeks. I greatly apologize about the delay on these. (If anyone wants to cancel their preorder, just drop me a line at [email protected]). Sometimes book distributors have a harder time getting copies of graphic novels. But we will have copies shortly and get them out to everyone. Thanks again to everyone for their patience.

These days, I was watching classic movies on DVD. "The Last Man on Earth" and "The Day of the Triffids".
"The Last Man on Earth" is original story "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson, and I liked both of book and movie. I think it's better tham "The Omega Man".
"The Day of the Triffids" is original story by John Wyndham. Both movies are very old but still they are good stuff. In "The Last Man on Earth", Vincent Price is a little bit old for Robert Neville, but his acting is pretty good.

But now, I found two classic films bad remade. I can't believe it.......Will Smith is Robert Neville?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/

The Incredible Shrinking Man: Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans? Oh, no!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249596/

Did anyone else catch this on SCiFi tonight? I really liked it! It was weird and strange and I loved it! I wouldn't want to live there. I think I'll watch it again next week and see if I want to continue to watch it. I haven't figured out Lo-Jack quite yet!

** SPOILERS **

Rereading some of Paul's excellent books, I found it interesting
how Rasalom seems to fall into the cliche mold of the Bond
arch-villain in one major way, yet gets away with it because
of Paul's excellent characterization.

WTF you ask?

The James Bond arch-villain always makes one major mistake
in every single movie, and that is, he/she will, at one or more
points in the movie, have Bond completely and utterly at their
mercy, and, instead of simply outright killing Bond with a gun
shot to the head or whatever, said villain will not only gloat
over Bond and spill his/her whole evil plan, but will leave Bond
tied up to die in some wildly imaginative manner in which we
the audience just know he will escape.

And thus we come to Rasalom gloating over the aged Glaeken,
instead of outright killing him (which would be the safe thing
to do, regardless of his "seeming" condition) when he finally
meets him after so many decades, and then leaving
him alive...and Rasalom's gloating over the exhausted form of
Jack down in Florida, and once again showing a complete lack
of foresight as to Jack's capabilities (and this after his realization
in Conspiracies, when first meeting Jack, that Jack had personally
destroyed all the Rakoshi).

One might surely come to the conclusion that Rasalom is the
biggest idiot on the planet, with one HELL of a sub-conscious
death wish.

But Paul covers his bet by making good old Rasalom a being
who feeds off of the intangible emotions of fear and despair,
and the opportunity to feed off of fallen Glaeken and a broken
Jack is just too overpowering a desire for the prince of evil to
ignore.

Mike

How is it this little foul mouthed gem of a film escaped the attention of this forum? It's hilarious. I'm not going to give any details and spoil it but it's due to be showing up on cable any time now. It stars Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long (the geeky kid from Dodgeball). Well worth seeing.

I found this kinda funny since I have had City of God sitting next to my TV since 6/23/06 and just can't seem to find the motivation to watch it.

Netflix Guilt

Was it just me or did the past season pretty much suck?

The season finale was horrible also.

I just never got into it. Everyone has become unlikeable, and they all bicker like a bunch of twelve year olds.

Rome was WAAAAYYYYYY better. That's my new fave HBO show.

Hey, Medusa, did you see this:

Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story

This post goes out to any Brits on the board regarding my new favorite show airing on BBC America called "The Catherine Tate Show".

I love British humor, but in Catherines show ther is a skit that I just don't get.

If you have seen the show it is a recurring skit where there is a couple who are so eccentric. They seem to find humor in everything each other does.

I can't explain the skits because they confuse me and I don't know why they're supposed to be funny.

In one skit, the wife tells her husband "Oh my God, you're not going to belive what I just did!"

The husband is like... "No...what did you do?"
I tried ringing sara to see if she wanted Chineese food and I said, Hey Sara...AND IT WASN'T SARA!"

"You lie! It wasn't Sara!?"

"No...It was Beth!!!"

"NO! What was Beth doing at Sara's..."

It goes on and on and the audience is cracking up and I am left scratching my head trying to figure out what I'm missing. If you know the show and can explain this, I'd gratly appreciate it.

What movie have you watched repeatedly, for whatever reason? It could be a guilty pleasure, could be because you love it to death, or it's just so bad you can't not watch it.

For me it's Michael Mann's "Last of the Mohicans." It's my favorite movie, PS period. I cry like a fool every time. I've seen it about 13 times so far.