So the inevitable parting that so many have predicted seems to have happened, and the Rockets are seeking to trade seven-time All-Star Tracy McGrady at his request. With his $23 million salary, that won’t be easy. With his departure immanent, it’s a good time to sum up his Rockets career, and to clear away a… Continue reading Tracy McGrady to Part Ways With the Rockets
Alan Moore as a Hot Teenaged Japanese Girl
Comic tribute to Watchman creator and comic-God Alan Moore? Got it. By a Japanese illustrator? Fine. As a Dojinshi comic depicting Alan Moore as a hot teenage Japanese girl? Ow! You broke my brain! And here’s some more art from it.
Had Another Piece of “Twitter Fiction” Published
This one of “seasonal interest.” You can see all three of my offerings on Thaumatrope here.
“Told ya I was hardcore”
Having played lunch-break basketball at work a while back, I can assure you that, for a non-contact sport, basketball can have an awful lot of contact. But this is pretty extreme: “The teams lost Dirk Nowitzki and Carl Landry early in the second quarter when Landry cut off Nowitzki on a drive, catching Nowitzki’s right… Continue reading “Told ya I was hardcore”
Obituary Watch: Dan O’Bannon
Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter for Alien, the writer/star of Dark Star, and the director of The Return of the Living Dead has died at 63. That’s a pretty worthy legacy to leave behind…
Life Imitates William Gibson’s Idoru
Japanese man marries his virtual dating sim girlfriend. Now don’t you feel better about your own love life (or lack thereof)?
I participated in a Mind Meld over at SF Signal
On the best SF books and movies I enjoyed this year. Sadly, almost none of those actually came out this year…
Tim Conway Turns 76
Tim Conway is 76 today, so in honor of his birthday, yep, it’s the elephant story. It never gets old. /My lawn. Get off it.
Two Things Dwight Might Like
I mentioned one of these to Dwight at the Saturday Dining Conspiracy and chanced across the other. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York by William Grimes. This got a very favorable review in National Review (the print edition; alas, the review does not seem to be online). Shackleton – The Greatest Survival Story… Continue reading Two Things Dwight Might Like
And now for something vaguely Star Trek-related
I have a co-worker with a number of Spock sketches up on his whiteboard (which I actually started), with Evil Spock (with beard), Vincent van Spock (one ear), etc. Today he said he had to erasing some of the more obscure Spocks (like one that was evidently a Babylon 5 reference) with Spocks people would… Continue reading And now for something vaguely Star Trek-related