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Magpie Monday

Posted on 24 September 2012 by Robert

F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” Here are some shiny, crisp things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Irene Gallo curated an awesome autumnal gallery, Picturing Autumn, An Equinox Celebration, last … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Wizard of Earthsea, Agyar by Steven Brust, Aitor Iñaki Eraña, AlphaBooks, American Gods, Andrew Liptak, Andrew Neal, Anne Hathaway, Arctic forests, Autumn, Batman: The Tailor by Aitor Iñaki Eraña, Ben Towle, Black Widow, bookcases, BookRiot, bookshelves, Brothers Grimm, Cameron Cook, Carey Farrell, Carlos Schwabe (1866-1926), Catwoman, Cheong-ah Hwang, Chris Thile, Christopher Moloney, Colleen Wing, comic-book covers, Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walter, death (Victorian), diner lingo, Distraction by Cheong-ah Hwang, Doctor Strange, Dylan Meconis, Earthsea, Edgar Meyer, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, electron microscope photography, Elektra, Elephants of the Platte by Thomas Israel Hopkins, Erin Morgenstern, Eve and Adam (excerpt) by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fairy tales, film trailers, FILMography (tumblr), FIrestar, flax-golden tales, Fool's Gold by Frank Dutkiewicz, Ged, George R. R. Martin, global warming, Grimm Tales: For Young and Old, Harry Potter, Hellboy in Hell, How Not to Write Comics Criticism, Hugh Jackman, I Am Legend, Indiana Review, Irene Gallo, J.K. Rowling, Joe Hiland, Juan Santapau, jus prime noctis, Kelly Link, Kevin Steele, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Les Misérables, libraries (amazing), Little Red Riding Hood, Little Red Riding Hood Does Over the Big Bad Wolf by Wendy O'Malley, Louise's Ghost by Kelly Link, Luc Latulippe, Magic & Good Madness: A Neil Gaiman Reread, Marc Basile, Marianne Stokes (1855-1927), Marvel Comics, Melisande (1895) by Marianne Stokes, Michael Joyce, Mike Mignola, Misty Knight, Mortless by Henry Szabranski, music videos, narrative hooks (writing), Neil Gaiman, New Zealand Listener, No One But You (song), O'Donovan, OCD cleaning tricks, Old Friends by Shane Wilwand, paper sculpture, Paul Smith, Philip Pullman, Postcard Stories, procrastination, reading nooks, Rising Falling by Leah Thomas, Robert Neville, Russell Crowe, Russell Hinson, Said the Princess by Dani Atkinson, Scarecrow, serialized novels, slushpile, Steven Brust, Stranger Things Happen, Stuart Duncan, Subterranean Press, superheroines, Sutured Infection, Suzy McKee Charnas, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, Tehanu, Tenar, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Faun (1923) by Carlos Schwabe, The Girl Detective by Kelly Link, The Goat Road Sessions, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Night Circus, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Secret Knots, The Specialist's Hat by Kelly Link, The Unwritten, The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas, The Weird, Theodora Goss, Tom Hooper, Tor.com, translucent animals, Travels with the Snow Queen by Kelly Link, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vampire novel (history), Weird Council, Where the Wonder Women Are, Will Ludwigsen, Women's Auxiliary (photo), Write Place Write Time, xkcd, Yo-Yo Ma, Yuko Shimizu, Zadie Smith | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 17 September 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Ransom & Mitchell take some of the most elaborate, magical, and wild photographs I’ve ever seen. Their photography (and film work) is housed in the intricate sets they create, and … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged "Get Out of My House" (song), "Houdini" (song), A Silly Love Story by Nicole Cipri, A Wrinkle in Time (graphic novels), Alice in Wonderland, AlphaBooks, Andrew Thaler, aphorism, Aquaman, Axel Medellin Machain, Batman: Earth One, Ben Towle, Billy (gay male vampire slayer), bookcases, bookshelves, Bryan Thom, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, cake, cake (comic books), cake (Zelda Fitzgerald), cannibalism (infant), Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), Chad VanGaalen, Chris Ware, Chuck Wendig, crows, Daily Science Fiction, DC Comics, Dinah Shore, Don Quixote, Down the Wall by Greer Gilman, Electric Velocipede, film trailers, food (most expensive), Frankenstein, Gangnam Style (video), glassfrog, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Gypsy, Havok (Marvel), Hawkman, Highland Bakery, Hope Larson, horror films, J.H. Williams III, Jason Mitchell, Jonny Quest, José Andrés, K-pop, Karen Portaleo, Kate Bush, Kate Elliott, Krissy Brady, Leah Palmer Preiss, Lord Byron, Madeleine L'Engle, male gaze, Mama (film), Marc Bas, Mary Shelley, Matt Lindsay, Miklós Felvidéki, music videos, Neil Gaiman, Nell by Karen Hesse, Nova Ren Suma, Paris, parthenogenesis, Phil Noto, placebo, Polaris (Marvel), presidents and psychopaths, Psy, Queen of Hearts, Queequeg (Moby-Dick), race & writing, Radio Free Other, Ransom & Mitchell, Scheherezade's Bequest, Scott Musgrove, Sean Ferrell, Smoke & Mirrors exhibition, Stacey Ransom, Stockholm, Su Blackwell, Summer Reading by Ken Liu, Supergirl, Superman: Earth One, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Dreaming (Kate Bush), The Gifter by Torrey Podmajersky, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (excerpt) by Catherynne M. Valente, The Halo Effect, The Last Good Man by Ransom & Mitchell (2012), The Lotus Eaters by Michelle Muenzler, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Perfectly Fried Egg, The Quietus, The Super Team Family Blog, The Touch of Love by Day Al-Mohamed, The Wasp, Third Time's a Charm by Melanie Rees, Thor, Tintin, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Varnish Fine Art, Warren Zevon, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, Will Ludwigsen, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman: Earth One, Wreckage by Ransom & Mitchell (2012) | 2 Comments

Magpie Monday

Posted on 10 September 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I came across Kris Kuksi‘s elaborately detailed sculptures about two years ago, and for some reason unknown even to me I didn’t do any further research on him. Clearly, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged Alex Ross, Alfred Stieglitz, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed Meets Parkour in Real Life, Athenaeum by J★RYU, author photos, Awesome People Reading, Axel Medellin Machain, Ben Towle, bird funerals, book cover art, BookRiot, bookstores, Chuck Wendig, comic books (organization), Daily Science Fiction, Deepa Mehta, Divination & Delusion, Don't Write Comics, Downton Abbey (Season 3), El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Hand, Errantry: Strange Stories (cover art), fairy-tale films, fake foreign accents, film trailers, For They Heard the First Sound and Trembled by Jessica Breheny, Game of Thrones (theme song), Georgia O'Keeffe, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, J★RYU, John Bishop, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julie Ditrich, KellyThompson, Kris Kuksi, Le Parkour, Leah Palmer Preiss, Let's All Sing like the Birdies Sing by Paul G. Di Filippo, Lindsey Stirling, Marc Basile, Medusa, Michael Cunningham, Midnight's Children, Overheard at The Platonic Ideal Bar and Grill by Aimee Vanessa Blume, Paul Muad'Dib (Dune), Peter Hollens, post-genre, Rachelle Gardner, Richard Scarry, Rotofugi Gallery, Salman Rushdie, sculpture, sex (19th century euphemisms), sex (writing), sexual promiscuity, Small Beer Press, style guides, testosterone, The Ghost of You Haunted Me... by J★RYU (exhibit), The Mobius Garden by James Bambury, The Taste of Salt by Rachel Halpern, The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson (cover art), Trouble Magazine, Will Ludwigsen, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman (TV series), zombies | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 3 September 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ The 2012 Chelsey Awards were given last week in recognition of excellence in genre art. The winners produced quite an amazing collection of art to feast your eyes upon, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday | Tagged 30 Pounds of Human Tissue by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Dreams, A Wizard at War by A.M. Roelke, Adam Mills, AlphaBooks, autoerotic asphyxiation, Ben Towle, Birds and Birthdays, Bonnie Tyler, book cover art (design theories), Breaking the Frame by Kat Howard, Brothers Grimm, Cartographer's Ink by Beth Cato, Charlie Jane Anders, chocolate, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Barzak, Christopher Kubasik, Courtney Carpenter, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Phoenix, Dorothea Tanning, Edith Wharton's library, Electric Velocipede, electrified plants, Fin Fang Foom, forensics, genre, Grimm's Fairy Tales, haka, harvester ants, Heaven Under Earth by Aliette de Bodard, Hellboy, hermaphrodite sex, Hulu, I Dreamed the Moon by Julia Rios, Jabberwocky, James Scott Bell, Joe Bunting, John Bertram, L. Frank Baum, Lady Sif, Lee Pace, Legion by Brandon Sanderson, Legolas, Lightspeed, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl, Marc Basile, Mary Shelley, Matt Damon, Matthew Olin, Michael Parkes, Michael Pollan, miniatures, Moonstruck (bronze) by Michael Parkes, mythology (world) cultural appropriation, Neil Rivas, New Zealand, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs, Quebec City Magic Festival, Recovering Lolita, Royal New Zealand Infantry, Ryan Gosling, skin cake, Snow White, soft drinks, sperm, Stefan Tosheff, storm troopers, strokes, Superboy (new), Sutured Infection, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The 2012 Chelsey Awards, The Booth at the End, The Highly Sensitive Person and the Writer by Susan Sipal, The Hobbit (film), The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Spectre, The Super Team Family Blog, The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), The Three Graces (painting) by Michael Parkes, The Wizard of Oz, Theodora Goss, Thranduil, Tim Tadder, Tom Gauld, Total Eclipse of the Heart, travel writing, Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo, Undoing Winter by Shannon Connor Winward, Vampirella, Watching Rockets by John Philip Johnson, Water Wigs, webseries, Weird and Proud of It by Johanna Sinisalo, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, William Faulkner, Wonder Man, writing (novellas), writing (novels), writing (romance), writing (setbacks & stumbling blocks), writing (short stories), writing houses, Xander Berkeley | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 27 August 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Prior to seeing the image below on Terri Windling’s blog, I’d never heard of Kelly Louise Judd before. How is that possible? Her work is exquisite and reminds me … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged "Tequila" Yuen, AlphaBooks, Andrew Wheeler, animation, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Beautiful Evidence, Ben Towl, Bill and Ted, Birds and Birthdays, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Brian Azzarello, China Miéville, Chris Bird, Christopher Barzak, Cloudburst by Thomas Allen, cosplay, costumes, cremation, Dana Scully, Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Darren Criss, Davinder Brar, dolls, Edward Scissorhands, Endymion by Roz Kaveney, Espresso Book Machine, film trailers, Fire, Fox Mulder, free indirect discourse, Harry Potter, Joe Hill, John Byrne, Justice League, Justine Larbalestier, Kelly Louise Judd, Kingdom Come, know what you write, Leonora Carrington, magic realism, magic systems, magical-realist films, Marc Basile, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Downs (The Craft), Nancy Drew, Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), Neil Gaiman, Perched by Kelly Louise Judd, poetry (found), Portrait of Lisane de Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky, Remedios Varo, Roz Kaveney, Rufus, school lunch, Song of the Sea, spontaneous combustion, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Steve McQueen, Stray Books by Grant Snider, stress and genes, Superman, Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest by Bruce Boston, Swan Bones Theater, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Terri Windling-Gayton, Th Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Corinthian, The League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons 1996, The Mafra National Palace library in Mafra Portugal, The Sandman, The Secret of Kells, The Watchmaker's Wife by Lydia S. Gray, Thomas Allen, Tom Gauld, Under the Tree by Tania Hershman, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman (villains), writing (process), Zach Morris (sociopath) | 2 Comments

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