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the hunting of the snark

read this before you go on. then, if you still feel the burning need to, proceed as you will with the rest of it:Wail of the Sun: i admit: i’ve had it with this sort of epic fantasy, you’ve got to come...

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here comes the rooster

so. The Road beats all the other competitors to a spit-roasted pulp and takes the Rooster. more meat for the roast, i presume. a bit disappointing for being a most predictable end to my first...

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fiction comma electric

in case i wasn't being clear -- and a recent conversation with Banzai Cat seems to indicate as much -- i have dropped all pretense towards 'critical' review on this blog. whatever i may say by way of...

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Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen: first one, or maybe two stories...we'll...

[note: this (with its subsequent clarification here ) continues to apply.] i forgot: i also got Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen over the weekend. (yes, i know...retail therapy. what a bitch. still,...

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V. 1922 - 2007

no, not quite a fan, nor even necessarily a believer. but is there any particular reason i need to explain myself to you? to anyone?

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INTERSTITIUM: this life, reimagined, revivified

i wouldn't have admitted it then, but when i dubbed this blog my 'other life', i had been rather obviously acknowledging what reading was for me back then: escape. while the aesthetic i frequently...

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Mike Carey's Hellblazer: The Gift

i may have mentioned this before, and anyone who has been following the adventures of John Constantine doesn't need me to repeat it, but here it is again anyway: every writer brings his own brilliance...

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Caitlin Kiernan's Alabaster

Ms Kiernan's writing sits comfortably on the shelf between Poe and Lovecraft, perhaps leaning with her ear held close to Lovecraft; albeit the stories she tells are character-driven, with non-kitschy...

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Moonlighting, Season 3 Episode 11: Blonde on Blonde

written by Kerry Ehrindirected by Jay Danielseries created by Glenn Gordon Caron(i had decided long ago that i wouldn't write reviews. but, hell, this deserves something as excessively overwrought as...

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Beowulf

screenplay by Roger Avary and Neil Gaimandirected by Robert Zemeckisthe weakest thing about Zemeckis' Beowulf is the presentation: the graphics and Zemeckis' direction--it seems they haven't yet gotten...

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Chuck Palahniuk's Rant

how weird is that? every now and then while i'm reading Chuck's latest thing, this godawful mess of a book he calls an oral history, this audible groan starts to well up from deep inside of me like all...

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Cloverfield

written by Drew Goddarddirected by Matt ReevesCloverfield does exactly what it says on the tin (ie, 'a monster movie for the YouTube generation'), which is more than can be said for a lot of recent...

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The Bedlam in Goliath, The Mars Volta

as with 2006's Amputechture, the album that first got me into TMV (the samples i heard from the first two full-length albums always suggested too much of At the Drive-In to me and i freely admit that i...

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Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (El Orfanato); plus: two cents on the...

saw The Orphanage today. i'll let Peter Bradshaw tell you about it, over at The Guardian:http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,,2267233,00.htmlThe Orphanage is...

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The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick and a bit of John Clute's review

i don't know what to make of John Clute's review of The Dragons of Babel. not that it (the review) isn't a brilliant deconstruction of Michael Swanwick's brilliant deconstruction of the 'hidden...

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Hellboy 2 The Golden Army

directed by Guillermo del Torostarring Ron Perlman (yay!), Selma Blair, Doug Jones, someone's voice in a clunky, but nifty, steampunky suit, Elric and his daughter (as siblings), Jeffrey Tambor and a...

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Hellboy 8: Darkness Calls

story by Mike Mignolaart by Duncan FegredoDuncan Fegredo's art is messy and hectic; he captures what i imagine must be the more Kirbyesque aspects of Hellboy (something i can't say for sure, knowing...

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Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb; and bits about being Lost in...

hell has been something of a theme for my Other Life of late: there was the Hellboy movie and the last Hellboy collection, most obviously; before that were Roberto Bolaño's By Night in Chile and Flann...

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The Dark Knight

directed by Christopher Nolanwritten by Christopher and Jonathan Nolanstarring Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freemanthe Nolan...

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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog; and, a bit about the Doctor

directed by Joss Whedonwritten by Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, Jack Whedonstarring Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day, Nathan Fillionhttp://www.drhorrible.com* helped a bit with my...

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