Tag Archives: Ben Towle

Magpie Monday

Posted on 19 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ I’m really digging this photo of a sink draining, probably because the illusion of an eyeball is also just a bit freaky. Here’s the skinny courtesy of BoingBoing, one of … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged Aaron Hamburger, Alberto Sangorski, Alpha, Beautiful Creatures, Ben Towle, breakfast, Brita's Holiday Village by Karin Tidbeck, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Chuck Wendig, Colleen Doran, Cyberman, Daily Science Fiction, David Malki!, death rituals, description, Diana Prince's Diary (tumblr), dinner, Douglas Adams, Early Draft of Talking Points for the Sixth Emergency Broadcast with Editorial Suggestions by the Office's Unpaid Interns Bob and Isabelle by Helena Bell, Elizabeth Hand, Empire, eyeball photo, film trailers, flax-golden tales, french fry and hash brown diet, Gail Carrigers, Gillian Lowyck, Grant Snider, Guy Fieri, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, hearing vs. listening, Hostess, illuminated manuscripts, Jane Austen, Jesse A. Givens, juggling, La double vie de Veronique, Leah Palmer Preiss, Liammmin, Linda Sienkiewicz, lunch, lying, Marie Corelli, monsters (North American), Nevermore by Renee Carter Hall, Old Flames by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Oz: The Great and Powerful, Paranormal Postage Thievery by Erin Morgenstern, Pauline Fisk, Pete Wells, plurals, reading nooks, rejection, Richard Nikoley, Ring Ding, Since You Seem to Need a Certain Amount of Guidance by Alexander Jablokov, Sno Ball, stage magic (psychology), Steven Padnick, story structures, submission, Superman, Susan J. Morris, The 100 best films of world cinema, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Thanksgiving-erator, Theodora Goss, This Place from Which All Roads Go by Jennifer Mason-Black, Thomas Kroger, to blog or not to blog, Tom Gauld, Truly Scrumptious Designer Cakes, Twinkie, Weird Fiction Review, Wild Edric, Wondermark, writing (submissions), writing pain, Zaphod Beeblebrox | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 12 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Belgian artist Stéphane Halleux creates wonderful, whimsical sculptures, vaguely Steampunkish in design. He started working first in animation, but now creates his sculptures full time. If you speak French, … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alan Moore, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Angel, Aniron, Ansa and the Lost Thing by Sophie Wereley, Be Happy for No Reason by Erin Morgenstern, bebionic v3, Ben Towle, Better Than Visiting Sunnydale, Black King, Bound Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Brad Pitt, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Limerick Episode Guide, Cameron Cook, card catalogs, Carl Sagan, Carl Warner, Cat Mihos, Chuck Wendig, Cosmos, cuckoos, Cullen Bunn, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Horse, Deathbird, deceptive dust covers, Did Someone Say Hellmouth?, Doc Savage, Doctor Strange, Doheny Library (USC), Dr. Light, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Enya, fairy-wrens, film trailers, finding time to write, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, foodscapes, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hamlet, Hannah Jarrett, Hawkman, Henry James, Idris Elba, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino, James Bond, Jimmy's End, Joe Queenan, John Lingan, Just Today by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Justice League Dark, Kevin St. Jarre, Leah Palmer Preiss, Letters of Note, Lightspeed, Locke & Key, London Falling by Paul Cornell, macaroni and cheese, Marnie Dresser, Martha Stewart, Matt Kaplan, Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dirda, Mireille Enos, Misty Knight, Mitch Jenkins, Monsieur Hublot, Mumford and Sons, My Mother's Shadow by Henry Lu, myths about science, Neil Gaiman, Nigel Ackland, Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, parthenogenesis, Perdido Street Station, polar bears, President Barack Obama, prosthetics, Rachelle Gardner, Red at the End of the World by Lynda E. Rucker, Richard Symons, Roderick Constance, Russell Hinson, Sam Wolk, sculpture, Searching for Slave Leia by Sandra McDonald, Seth Abramson, solar system (photographs), Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown, spices, Steampunk, Stéphane Halleux, Swamp Thing, talent and discipline, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, teaching writing, teapots, The Fearless Defenders, The Hellboy Timeline, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, The Super Team Family Blog, The Tides by Ken Liu, Theodora Goss, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Valkyrie, Virginia Woolf, Waffle Meringue Productions, Warren Ellis, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wild Things by Alyx Dellamonica, wildlife photography, Will Ludwigsen, Will Sliney, William Hodge, William James, winter storms, Wired.com, Wonder Woman, World War Z, Yagharek, Yorick | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 5 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ A couple weeks ago, I ran across a re-posted link on mental floss about Graun, Italy’s most famous drowned town, and I was struck both by the story itself … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Handful of Glass a Sky without Stars by Damien Walters Grintalis, Air New Zealand, Alexander Korzer-Robinson, AlphaBooks, American Libraries, Bag End (miniature), Beautiful Stills from Beautiful Films, beautiful words, Ben Towle, Birds and Birthdays, blood pressure tests, book art, bookshe, bookshelves, Brian K. Vaughan, Calvin & Hobbes, Cameron Cook, Christopher Barzak, Chuck Wendig, collage, Daily Science Fiction, Dance in the Graveyard by Delta Rae, Daredevil, David Malki!, Death Proof, Delta Rae, DJ Faroff, Don't Look Down by Anatoly Belilovsky, Douglas Adams, Dragon Baby, Dreadknight, drowned cities, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Everything About Secret Bookcase Doors, Ex Machina, flax-golden tales, Gabe Ostley, Grant Snider, Graun, Hand Fixing Hand by Shane Willis, heavy rain (international idioms), IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes by Jonathan Keogh, Iron Baby, Isaac Asimov, Jabberwocky, James Joyce, Joyce Carol Oates, Leah Palmer Preiss, Legends of the Joystick by Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham, libraries (amazing), Mary Robinette Kowal, Nils Cordes, No Country for Old Men, OMNI magazine, Open Road Media, Over There by Dany G. Zuwen, Patrick Boivin, Philip Pullman, robotics (three laws), Russell Hinson, secret doors, secret-passage bookshelves, Shame, short films, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, StashVault, Susumu Must Fold by Tony Pi, The Amber Spyglass, The Dead, The Hobbit (film), The Man Who Wasn't There, The Number Two Rule by Lesley L. Smith, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Super Team Family Blog, The Thin Red Line, Theodora Goss, Thom Dunn, Tom Gauld, Twitter, Unexpected Aftermath of a School Bus Accident by Erin Morgenstern, Warren Ellis, Weird Fiction Review, Wondermark, writing "rules", writing (novellas), Xaphania, Xaxisian Giant Robot, Ys | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 29 October 2012 by Robert

“He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.” ~Henry James Here are some shiny things that caught my eye … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Fairy Tales, Magpie Monday | Tagged Action Comics #431, Akihiro Yanai, All Hallow's Read, AlphaBooks, alternative history (ideas), American English vs. British English, animation, anthologies, Audible.com, Axel Medellin Machain, Barbarann Garrand, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Towle, Bluebeard Tales from Around the World, blushing, Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buttersafe, cake, Cameron Cook, candy (Hallowe'en), Captain America, Chris Dugas, Chuck Wendig, Click-Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman, contact juggling, Coraline, Cthulu, Daily Science Fiction, David B. Coe, DC Women Kicking Ass, Don't bore Nina!, Dracula, Emily Carroll, Evil Dead II (1987), Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings, fairy-tale films, False Positive, film trailers, flax-golden tales, folie à deux, Frankenstorm, Frozen (Disney), Gabriela Pereira, Ghosts in the Machines by Neil Gaiman, Gizmo, Grant Snider, Gremlins, Halloween II (2009), Hansel & Gretel, Heidi Anne Heiner, Henry James, His Face All Red by Emily Carroll, horror fiction, horror films, Hush, intestinal microbiota transplantation, jack-o'-lanterns, Jane Sprague, Jeremy Enecio, Jon Neill, Leah Palmer Preiss, Leite's Culinaria, London fog, Long Fingers in Dark Shadows by Erin Morgenstern, magic tricks, Marc Basile, microbiology, Mike Walton, monsters (Jewish), monsters (North American), monsters (sexy), My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead, My Mother's Body by Christie Yant, Neil Gaiman, neuroscience, objective correlative, Obscurus Lupa, P. Craig Russell, Paranormal Activity, personal essay, Phone Booth by Holli Mintzer, placebo effect, portal fantasy, premenstrual syndrome, Project Runway, psychopathy, pumpkin carving, pumpkins, Ray Villafane, Rich Ferguson, serial killers, setting, shivers up the spine, Snickers, Snow White, SurLaLune Fairy Tales, Susan J. Morris, teeth, The Cannibal Innkeeper (Romania), The Chosen One by Huston Lowell, The Graveyard Book, The Lonton Lass, The Lord of Rosendal (Sweden), The New Kid Is No Angel by James Valvis, The Newsstand at Mike's Amazing World of Comics, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Shadowy Third by Ellen Glasgow, The Silk Nightcap, The Snow Queen, The Super Team Family Blog, The Terrible Old Man by H.P. Lovecraft, Thirteen at Table by Lord Dunsany, Thumbelina, Timothy Hooten, Tituba, Tom Gauld, Too Fond by Leanna Renee Hieber, Tor.com, toy collections, trolls, Trophy Wife by Samantha Murray, Troy Jensen, Walter Mitty, webcomics, Weird Fiction Review, Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snicket, Wicked Witch of the West, Wide Open by Deborah Coates, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray Harker, Willy Wonka, Wizart Animation, Wonder Woman, writing prompts, you (plural), zombies | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 22 October 2012 by Robert

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ All Hallow’s Read. … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged All Hallow's Read, AlphaBooks, anatomy, astronomy, Banshee, Bean Sidhe, Bell Witch of Tennessee, Ben Towle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Blue Sand by Caroline M. Yoachim, book edit, Book Mania!, book shelves, bookcases, Cameron Cook, cannibalism, Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel #9 (cover), Caput Mortuum by Andrew Kaye, Cat Burglar Black, chapters in novels (writing), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Christian Sager, Chuck Wendig, coma, Coraline, costumes, Daily Science Fiction, David Aja, Day of the Dead, Dead Alive (aka Braindead), death, depression, Doctor Strange, ducks (physics), Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Elsa Lanchester, Erin Morgenstern, Event Horizon, Farmer's Daughter by Brian Luong, film trailers, flax-golden tales, folklore, forensics, Forest Rogers, Gail Carriger, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Goblin Fruit, Halloween (2007), Hawkeye #7 (cover), heterochromia, History of the Kings of Britain, horror fiction, Invisible Woman, IQ tests, Ivan Ewert, James Whale, Jamie McKelvie, John Keats, Jordie Bellaire, Judy Drood, Leah Palmer Preiss, Lemony Snicket, literary foundation, Lost and Found by Jamie Todd Rubin, Macdonald Triad, Mad Night, Marc Basile, Margaret Atwood, Marie Brennan, medieval weapons, memory, microbial ecosystem, Mike Bell, Mike Walton, monsters (African), Natasha Hawley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Neil Gaiman, nightmares, Ode to a Nightingale, organ regeneration, Peculia, poetry, postcards, prison slang, production plan, Psycho (1998), PTSD, pumpkins, Rachelle Gardner, RescueTime, Richard Sala, Roald Dahl, Rosemary's Baby, Scenting the Dark by Mary Robinette Kowal, sculpture, Shimmer by Amanda C. Davis, Sigmund Freud, Sinister, Su Blackwell, Superman, suspending disbelief, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Baskerville Effect, The Bride (1985), The Bride of Frankenstein, The Chuckling Whatsit, The Emperor's Soul (excerpt) by Brandon Sanderson, The Ghastly Ones and Other Fiendish Frolics, The Hidden, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Ring (2002), The Super Team Family Blog, The Velveteen Rabbit, Theodora Goss, tongue twisters, Tor.com, Twitter fiction, vampires, Violet Beauregarde, Vortigern, Vulcan, wedding invitations, weddings (Hallowe'en-themed), werewolves (historic), Where the Wonder Women Are, Wonder Woman, Wreck-It Ralph | Comments Off

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