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Now at Amazon.com: bad fanfic and books whose authors did not write them
Those of you who, like me, are fanfic writers may often have dreamed of getting your works published in print—getting acclaim from wider audiences, perhaps even making a little bit of money, too. Of...
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Review: The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc
This review was originally written for posting to alt.pulp, but given that it's been a while since I updated this journal, and I enjoyed writing it, I should go ahead and post it to this journal so...
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Review: Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc & Edgar Jepson
In live theater, every action has to be broad. When you wave, you don't just flick your wrist, you move your whole arm. The audience is sitting at least a few yards away from you and you're only...
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Review: Tempus Fugit, by Lawrence Lee Rowe, Jr.
The title, Tempus Fugit, has a double meaning…because not only does "time fly" for its protagonists, it also flies for the reader who turns its pages.I do have to start off by admitting that it is...
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Episode Comparison: Robotech New Generation vs Mospeada Episode #1
(A version of this review, with audio excerpts from the show, originally appeared as part of one of the RDF Underground podcast. Not sure which one, I think maybe in the #34-#36 range.)As you may have...
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Robotech vs Mospeada Continued
A version of this entry originally appeared as part of RDF Underground podcast #40.In my last entry about Genesis Climber Mospeada, I focussed on all the minute ways the first episode differed from the...
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Books whose author did not write them, redux
It's been some time since my post about Amazon, Lori Jareo, and Princess and Wolf—probably my most-trafficked journal entry ever—came out, and it occurs to me that I really owe what little readership I...
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Review: Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles
A version of this entry first appeared in episode #42 of the RDF Underground podcast.As you probably already know, there have been several significantly different recountings of what happened to the...
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The Cheapness of Digital Cinema
Last year, I wrote a journal entry about how movie theaters were looking for gimmicks to try to bring more people into theaters and away from their home-theater TV setups. One of those gimmicks was...
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Books on the bus: my thoughts on three titles
Here are brief reviews of three of the books that I read on my bus trip to and from GenCon. I would have reviewed the fourth one as well, but I couldn't remember the title so couldn't look it up on...
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GenCon: The Robotech Report
I had originally written this for the RDF Underground podcast, However, Justy elected to hold off on reading it in the hope that I would be able to get some audio recordings of convention panels taped...
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The fourth bus book
And here's a review of the last bus-reading book from my GenCon sojourn.Burden of Proof by John G. HemryThe second book in a series, this space naval courtroom drama nonetheless contains sufficient...
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New entries elsewhere: Teleread, Codex
Recently, I was extended an invitation to join the staff of the Teleread.org blog. This morning, I was struck by a sudden inspiration and sat down and wrote my first entry, entitled "E-books: The...
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MP3 Commentary Track for Robotech: "Enter Marlene"
Here is a new audio commentary track I have recorded for viewing with episode #70 of Robotech, "Enter Marlene." It is an 11-megabyte 64 kilobit mono MP3, timed for playing with the NTSC version of the...
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Doing the Cha-Cha
Is having your own personal reference librarian for the Internet an idea whose time has come? chacha.com certainly hopes so. The premise behind this unusual search portal is that you search on a term,...
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G.K. Chesterton was right
G.K. Chesterton was a very perceptive man.In "The Bottomless Well," one of the stories that makes up his book The Man Who Knew Too Much, the titular character explains to a companion, in the process of...
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Starring Jeff Bridges as Jon Katz...
(I just submitted the following as a story to slashdot.org. I don't know if they'll run it, but whether they do or not, it was too good not to repost here. Mad props to my friend Matt Gerber for...
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Shadow Chronicles: The DVD Review
Having received my copy of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles yesterday, I decided I would review it. You can find an audio version of this review at my podcast, Space Station Liberty in Prerecorded Show...
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Review: Darkness of the Light, by Peter A. David
I read Peter A. David's new fantasy novel, Darkness of the Light (available through Sunday the 27th as a free ebook from tor.com's downloads page). It is quite a good book—but I honestly can't...
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Bent out of Shape
There has been a great deal of controversy in recent months over the casting choices for the movie version of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The fact that most of the protagonists were cast white and...
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