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Magpie Monday on Tuesday: Viewers’ Paradise & Science!

Posted on 9 July 2013 by Robert

Fun film and TV bits (with special science guests at the end of the post): ◊ TRAILERS! Anne Fontaine’s Adore looks to be intense and uncomfortable, as well as intensely uncomfortable and uncomfortably intense. The subject matter may put off … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged 3D-printed cast, Adore (film), AFI, Alisa Stern, American Film Institute, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ann Makosinski, Anne Fontaine, birds, Cameron Cook, cognitive decline, creepy, Dave Franco, David Lynch, Doctor Who, Dorothy Michaels, Dustan Hoffman, Evangeline Lilly, film trailers, Francesca Ramos, hawkmoths, Helen Mirren, Inland Empire, James Cameron, James Franco, Joan Crawford, John Hurt, King Cobra, Laika, Lee Daniels, morning breath, Naomi Watts, North Pole, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, plagiarism, Possessed (1931), puppets, reading, Robin Wright, Sharknado, sterility, stop-motion animation, sugary foods, The BoxTrolls, The Butler, The Doctor Puppet, The Hobbit (film), thermoelectics, Thuriel, Tootsie | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 1 July 2013 by Robert

All that was bright and shiny in my eye last week…. *I’ll have a full slate of posts again this week, so check back tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for more tantalizing tidbits. ♦ TURN THE PAGE. Looking for a … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged A Softer World, Andrew Gilstrap, Anne Tyler, aspect ratio, Audrey Tautou, author photos, Bart van Es, Batman, Batman/Superman (preview), Bee Wilson, bees, bidets, Bill Bernbach, Boing Boing, book promotion, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Byzantium (film), calories, Cate Blanchett, Catwoman, chatelaine, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Chuck Wendig, Consider the Fork, Daily Science Fiction, Dalek dress, Dave Hax, Dave McKean, deer doing odd things, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, elves, Emily Horne, Erin Morgenstern, Erin Underwood, Ernest Hemingway, escapism, Farah Mendlesohn, Fascinating, fetuses, film trailers, flax-golden tales, Gail Carriger, Grá Linnaea, Hall and Oates, Harry Potter, Heiresses of Russ, Helen Mirren, Hogarth Shakespeare, io9, Iron Man 3, J.M. Sidorova, James McAdam, Jeanette Winterson, Jeff Pruitt, Jem and the Holograms, Joey Comeau, John Hess, Joseph Campbell, Jug Face (film), lava, Leonard Woolf, Letters of Note, lightning deaths, Luca Parmitano, Madéleine ♥ Flores, Madeline Ashby, mantis shrimp, Marissa Meyer, Matt Smith, Melissa Mead, memory, Monomyth, motivational penguin, Neil Gaiman, Neil Jordan, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, outlining, Paula Treick DeBoard, Radio Free Other, Red 2, Richard Lee Byers, Robin Mizell, Safe Bedside Table, Seinfeld, Shirley Jackson, shirt folding, snow leopards, Spock, Superman, Tara Calaby, Terry Jacks, The DeFranco Family, The Fall (film), The Film Doctor, The Hobbit (film), The Mourning Hours, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Sandman, The Super Team Family Blog, The Wasp, Thérèse, Toni Tesori, Tor.com, universe colliding, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, William Shakespeare, Wonder Woman, World War Z | 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 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

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