My GF managed to infect my browser with a virus. That's a piss off. Just hoping I won't have to fully reformat the hard drive to get rid of it.

Thank you again for your kind praise.

Anansi Boys is some fun stuff. Typically Gaiman, but tighter and more focussed than some of his other stuff.

English class was definitely not the right atmosphere to properly enjoy that book. I'll have to re-read it myself. I've finished Raising Steam which means that I should start The Shepherds Crown but I can't yet. I'm not ready to read Pratchett's last Discworld novel, I might never be. But I'll have to eventually. …

The one that sticks out in my memory is "…We're gonna nail this guy. And when we get done… we're gonna go eat fish off those naked chicks!" . Don't get me wrong, I have a soft spot in my heart for the earnest campiness of Showdown, but Police Story blew my mind. There was no way it could do anything but suffer in…

Some hilarious dialogue in there. "Don't you know you are the scum of the earth?"

In high school, back in the early nineties, my friends and I would rent a few movies (around a theme, vampires, space travel, etc) and spend a weekend staying up all night watching and riffing on them. One weekend we decided to do a kung-fu night, which to our ignorant selves meant Chuck Norris, American Ninja and…

That's why I can never go back.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Finished Snuff. Now on Raising Steam, which is not great, but not quite as bad as I remember it. I had a review to post today, but a computer failure has put a crimp in that plan, so it will have to wait another week. You've been spared for now.

Scalped was one of those comics that seemed destined to be a TV show. Glad it's finally fulfilling its destiny.

Nah, nah, Magic Shadows all the way.

Not a crossover, but the first Dc/Marvel co-publication was an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. I'm sure you know this @The Anti-Monitor, just leaving it here for the elucidation of the uninformed.

No. No it wasn't, But I remember some covers that were simple and gorgeous. P.Craig Russell, I think.

Thank you. I was about to post this exact thought.

The Hal/Spectre covers were nice. So were the Ostrander/Mandrake ones though, so maybe it's just a Spectre thing.

Just be funny, new Ghostbusters movie. That's all I ask.

Lots of good reading. I'd go as far to say, some of the best books of the 20th century. Enjoy!

I feel that Sourcery is the last Discworld novel to be primarily concerned with poking fun at Fantasy. From Wyrd Sisters onward, he's more interested in poking fun at Humanity. Although he never quite stops making fun of fantasy tropes and general narrative conventions, it becomes one part of his overall satire. Eq…