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My Books
Outlaw Territory
(with Melike Acar)
24Seven Vol. 2
(with Walter Pax & Jack Kaminski)
24Seven
(with Ben Templesmith)
Complete story - "The Workman"
(courtesy of New York Magazine)
Starship Laziness
Hey, if Gaiman can get away with random, disjointed blog entries, then so can I, damnit.
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Just bought a wireless PS2 controller, and its presence in the house has served to underline just how much of a lazy bastard I really am. See, our couch is just far enough away from the TV and the PlayStation that we need to use an extention cord for the controller. It’s a big, unweildly cable that has to be unwound every time we want to play a game, and if we don’t put it away again immediately, the cats chew on it. As a result, we don’t play games that often. Pulling out the controller and then putting it away again is just enough of a pain in the ass that we usually just watch TV instead. Yeah, I know. Pathetic, right? When you’re too lazy to play video games, maybe it’s time to consider suicide for the good of the species as a whole. Anyway, with the wireless one (which I’m already thinking of as “the PlayStation remote”) and Jill laid up with the flu, we’ve been playing all weekend.
(Currently playing: TONY HAWK 3, WE LOVE KATAMARI, and PSI-OPS — because sometimes you just have to kill people with your brain.)
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Has anyone seen this show HEX? Any good? From the ad I saw on BBC America, it looks like a sort of British BUFFY about a teenage spirit medium. And apparently her best friend is a ghost who dresses like a goth chick from the ’80s.
So far it’s pushing all the Beaton buttons, I gotta say. Anybody know if it’s worth watching?
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Since its initial release, I’ve ranted to a lot of people about how STARSHIP TROOPERS is a wildly misunderstood film; that at the movie’s center is a very clever anti-fascism statement, a sort of, “What if the Nazis had won — and now it’s three hundred years later and there’s aliens?”
I saw the movie again for the first time in years the other night, and while I still think the above is true, the movie itself really isn’t very good. Sometimes it just shakes out like that, I guess.
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I installed the Google Web Accelerator a few days ago. It says it’s saved me 7.1 minutes so far.
I think it’s lying.
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July 3rd, 2006 at 10:45 am
My bf and I have watched Hex. It’s pretty much crap, but good campy crap and VERY naughty. The goth ghost is a lesbian and there is lots of innuendo and girl on girl action cause she can get in people’s dreams. I’m still watching it, but Phillip fell asleep during the last ep as it’s slow going to any witchcrafty action.