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Magpie Monday

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Art Nouveau portraits. Artist kishokahime created a series of Art Nouveau portraits of fantasy heroines from the 1980s (film and animation). I do prefer my Art Nouveau a little more ornate, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged akinetopsia, ambient music, Anastasia, animation, Art Nouveau (portraits), astronomy, Bigby Wolf, Bill Willingham, Billy Nunez, Black Lady (Sailor Moon), book cover art, Book Mania!, Bryan Singer, Christina Oppold, Chuck Wendig, Cinder, Craig Hamilton, Crysta (Fern Gully), Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walter, Daniel Dos Santos, Dave Hensley, David Malki!, death of film, Derek Kirk Kim, Dr Atmo, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, etymology, Fables, failing vs. quitting, FAX +49-69/450464, film trailers, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, frogs, frost flowers, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hawkeye, home libraries (design), I Have Your Heart, intelligence supplements, interviews, io9, Irvine Welsh, Isles of the Sun by Margo Lanagan, Jack the Giant Slayer, jerks (attraction to), Jim Batt, Jim Fern, Joe Daly, John Kenn Mortensen, Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, Juls Chong, Katherine Salant, Kickstarter, Kim Boekbinder, kishokahime, Leakey’s Second Hand Bookshop, Lili (Legend), linguistics, London, lunar phases, Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice), Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds by Mike Allen, Malta (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child), Mark Farmer, Molly Crabapple, Neil Patrick Harris, Neil's Puppet Dreams, Night Shade Books, No Return, Odette (The Swan Princess), Pete Namlook, Pi vs. Pie, Porno, Ray Snyder, Right Here by David Steffen, Robbie Trevino, Russell Hinson, Sarah (Labyrinth), Scarlet, science fiction (history), seals, self-surgery, short films, siblings, Skagboys, Slow by Erin Morgenstern, Sorsha (Willow), Speed of Love by Deborah Walker, stop-motion animation, Strange Horizons, Susan J. Morris, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Childlike Empress (The Neverending Story), The Lady Amalthea (The Last Unicorn), The Milky Way, The Most Important Man in the Universe by Joseph Zieja, The Nerdist, The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer, The Simpsons, The Stone Badger by Misha Nogha, The Trap by Steven Kahn, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Your Problem, Thumbelina, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Trainspotting, Tune: Vanishing Point, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wondermark, Zachary Jernigan | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 15 October 2012 by Robert

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, / We must rise and follow her; / When from every hill of flame, / She calls and calls each vagabond by name.” ~William Bliss Carman Here are some shiny … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Wrinkle in Time (graphic novels), abstract, Alan Moore, Alfred Hitchcock, Ali Smith style vs. content, All Hallow's Read, AlphaBooks, Alzheimer's Disease, Babylon 5, Ben Towle, body parts (cakes), Bug, Building Stories, Cameron Cook, candy corn, Caroline Todd Whitney, Cartoon Network, Cartoon Network (20th anniversary), Charlie Jane Anders, Chinua Achebe, chocolate, Chris Ware, Christopher Lee, Chuck Wendig, comma (direct address), concrete, costumes, Daily Science Fiction, David Malki!, Delta Rae, Dolores Umbridge, Dorothy Booraem, dystopias (anthology), Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Ellen Datlow, Eva Gabrielson, Falling Kingdoms (excerpt) by Morgan Rhodes, False Positive, fanged pumpkins, film trailers, flax-golden tales, forensics, foxes, Frances Glessner Lee, Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Google, grammar, Hallowe'en, Hallowe'en poetry, Harry Potter, hedgehog, Helen Mirren, Hitchcock (film), Hope Larson, Insidious, io9, Jenny Volvovski, Jessica Tremp, John Perry, Josephine Pennicott, Julia Rothman, Katherine Langrish, Keanu Reeves (in miniature), Kelly Williams, Kevin Armistead, Kim Newman, kissing, Krampus: The Yule Lord (excerpt) by Brom, Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory, letters, Letters of Note, Lisa Morton, Little Nemo in Google-land, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Look At This Little Thing!, lucid dreaming, Mama's Science by Shane D. Rhinewald, Marc Basile, Margaret Ferguson, Martha Stewart, mass extinction, Matt Lamothe, Meagan Spooner, Mike Walton, monsters, monsters (Antarctica), monsters (Australia), Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (excerpt) by Robin Sloan, music videos, Myke Cole, NaNoWriMo, Nathan and the Amazing TechnoPocket NerdCoat by K.J. Kabza, Neil Gaiman, Not the Destination by Richard E. Gropp, Now We Are Sick: An Anthology of Nasty Verse, Of Dolls & Murder (documentary), On Your Desk series, Promethea, pumpkins, Rachelle Gardner, Radio Free Other, Ray Villafane, Rebecca Artemisa, Russell Hinson, Ryan Britt, Sam Wolk, sandwich caddy, Scraps by Michael Haynes, Shelob, Skylark (novel), STDs (cupcakes), Stephen Jones, Stieg Larsson, story-starters, Straw Dogs, Structured Procrastination, Terri Windling-Gayton, ThanksKilling, The Big Bang Theory (TV show), The Consultant (a poem) by Jessy Randall, The Great Alan Moore Reread, The Hanging Garden, The Last Sunflower by Erin Morgenstern, The Lord of the Rings, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, The Paris Review, The Where, the Why and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science, This Cape is Red Because I've Been Bleeding, Tim Burton, Tim Callahan, Tom Piccirilli, Tor.com, Trick'r'Treat, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Ungoliant, Uriens, vampire pumpkins, vampires, Victoriana, webcomics, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, What the Sea Wants by P. Djélì Clark, William Bliss Carman, Winsor McCay, wolves, Wondermark | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 8 October 2012 by Robert

“All things on earth point home in old October; sailers to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.” ~Thomas Wolfe Here are … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, Alabaster, All Hallow's Read, allergies, AlphaBooks, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, animation, Apex Magazine, Banned Books Week, bees, Ben Towle, Blitzen Trapper, Blood Oranges by K.C. Shaw, Bookshelf Porn, Bruce Boxleitner, Cabin in the Woods, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cameron Cook, Cape Breton, Catherynne M. Valente, chapters in novels (writing), Chet Phillips, Christopher Blake, Clarkesworlde Magazine, Conjunctions by Neil Gaiman, Crimson Fox, Daily Science Fiction, Dancy Flammarion, Daniel Radcliffe, Darkness by Lord Byron, Darwyn Cooke, David Malki!, DC Women Kicking Ass, Dexter (cupcakes), Documentation Centre at the Library and Archives of the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Centren in Madrid, Dodger (excerpt) by Terry Pratchett, Enchanted Conversation, England under the White Witch by Theodora Goss, Fall of the House of Usher, film trailers, Finland, flax-golden tales, flip food in a pan like a chef, forensics, gender identity, Gerri Ryan, Grant Snider, Gregory L. Ulmer, Hades' Pitch by Rita Dove, Hans Christian Andersen, Harper and the Flood and the Ghost by Michael Ramstead, historical fiction, HIV, honey, Horns, horror films, Introverts, io9, Jason Statham, Jeremy Messersmith, Joe Hill, Kate Beaton, Kenneth Grahame, Kill Kat 1 by Andrew Bell, King of Marbury by Andrew Smith, Kitty Pryde, Krissy Brady, Lantern City, Last by Rich Larson, Laura Marling, Laura Veirs, Leah Palmer Preiss, Little Star (excerpt) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Lois Lane, Lyria by Miah Sonnel, Manhattan (neighborhoods), Mark Lanegan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Medusa by Patricia Smith, Michael Ramstead, monsters (European), monsters (South American), monsters (Victorian), Mr. Toad, My Mask Humanity by D. Thomas Minton, My Morning Jacket, Mystek, Nina Paley, No Harm in Tears by Lissa Sloan, NYU Press (library), Oldboy, Park Chan-wook, Parker series, pommedauphine, Promethea, psychopaths, punctuation marks (little-known), Radio Free Other, Raylene Rankin, Rebekka Karijord, Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake), sentence length, Sita Sings the Blues, steampunk (definitions of), Steampunk Week 2012, Stoker, Straitened Circumstances, Superman, Sutured Infection, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Commonplace Book by Jacob Clifton, The Dead by Mina Loy, The Descent, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (excerpt) by Catherynne M. Valente, The Great Alan Moore Reread, The Kalevala, The Talking Fountain by Diana Părpăriţă, The Thing, The Wind in the Willows, This Land Is Mine by Nina Paley, Thomas Wolfe, Threshold by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Thumbelina, Tim Callahan, Tim Hanley, TJ Dempsey, Tor.com, Watchdragon by Erin Morgenstern, Weaving Dreams by Mary Robinette Kowal, Where the Wonder Women Are, Winnie-the-Pooh, Wondermark | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 11 June 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ More sad news last week: iconic author Ray Bradbury died June 5th at the age of 91. The interwebs were ablaze with appreciations, essays, obituaries, reflections and tributes, the … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", Adam Mills, Alan Rickman, All the Wrong Questions, AlphaBooks, Apex Magazine, Awesome People Reading, Barack Obama, Ben Towle, Beyond Katrina, bisexuality, Blocked, Bonnie Zare, book shelves, bookcases, BookRiot, Cameron Cook, Carmina Burana, Carrie, Catherynne M. Valente, Charlize Theron, Chuck Wendig, Darmok, David Lynch, death, dioramas, Erik Martin, fairy-tale films, film trailers, flashmobs, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Ease continuum, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Level, Fragile Things, Game of Thrones, Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Hamish Linklater, horror fiction, Ian Withrow, io9, Jack Zipes, Jeff VanderMeer, John Crowley, John D. Boswell, John W. Doull Bookseller, Junot Díaz, Lego, Leigh Bardugo, Lemony Snicket, libraries, LitReactor, Locus, M.C. Escher, Margaret Atwood, McSweeney's, Memory Palace, metaphors, Mirror Mirror, Mister Rogers, Mr. Peabody, Natasha Trethewey, Neil Gaiman, Nick Mamatas, Once Upon a Blog, Once Upon a Time, Paradoxymoron, Patrick Hughes, PBS, photography (ghost mother), Pittsburgh, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), readability-index calculator, Sam Wolk, SF Signal, Shadow and Bone, Sherman, Slinkachu, Snow White and the Huntsman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Stephen King, Thailand, The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle, The Beat, The Garden of Your Mind, The Hanging Garden, The Ladies' Deposit, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Old Library Trinity College, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Symphony of Science, The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better than You Normally Do, The Washington Post, The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale, Theodora Goss, There Will Come Soft Rains, Time, Tor.com, U.S. Poet Laureate, Ultra Violet, Underwords, Wang Saen Suk Hell Park, Will Ludwigsen, writers (bad behavior), writers' workshops, xkcd | 3 Comments

Magpie Monday

Posted on 2 January 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Attention, Hellboy fans: over at io9, Mike Mignola talks about his 2012 plans for the big red guy. I’m really looking forward to Hellboy in Hell, but, I’m sad … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged 17th Precinct, 1979 Semi-Finalist, Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse, Carrie M. Becker, comics, copyright, Dave Roman, Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, Happy New Year, Hellboy, Hoarders: Buried Alive, io9, James Joyce, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Rankin/Bass, rejection, Ron Moore | 4 Comments

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