They are officially making a Sword of Truth television series — yes, bloggers, I am late with this news, so sue me — and I am surprised. Not shocked (I mean, it was bound to happen; the books are bestsellers) but surprised. “Legend of the Seeker.” Not so bad, looks like. Also, I mean, the [...]
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The Seeker of Truth… in Primetime?
Posted in criticism, obsession, reading, tagged codex alera, garion, inda, jim butcher, legend of the seeker, sherwood smith, sword of truth, tavi, terry goodkind, wheel of time on Wednesday 10 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inaccuracy or Thought-Provoking Trivia Question?
Posted in obsession, oddity, tagged star wars, storm troopers, trivia on Wednesday 2 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Those blast points are too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Storm Troopers are so precise.”
Given that sage Obi-Wan-ism from Episode IV, and given how no single shot the Storm Troopers take hit Luke & the gang as they’re fleeing the Death Star following Obi-Wan’s death — just one example — just how bad is [...]
Indy!
Posted in obsession, tagged indiana jones, movies, the dark knight on Friday 14 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The new poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull looks awesome — it’s old school painted like the classic Indiana Jones movie posters. What I like best is the comment underneath the poster: “I can’t decide if I would like it more or less if Shia was poking his head out [...]
‘Tis the season for Christmas music!
Posted in obsession, tagged christmas, christmas lights, church, music, pandora on Sunday 25 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The best part of the Christmas & holiday season is, of course, the family gift giving and general joyousness. But the second best part is the music. The music! I am obsessed with Christmas music.
It’s after Thanksgiving, which means a bunch of radio stations transition to 100% Christmas music (and 40% more commercials) until the [...]
Robin Hobb.
Posted in fantasy, obsession, reading, tagged epic fantasy, fantasy, fonts, protagonists who make mistakes, robin hobb, thwwwp on Thursday 20 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am so vulnerable to this woman and her books. I told myself, “No, you will not get sucked into reading Shaman’s Crossing. No. NO!” And ha. I have been. I’m not past the point of no return (the point at which I cannot — cannot — turn aside from reading a novel until it’s [...]
Books, glorious books!
Posted in fantasy, obsession, reading, tagged david eddings, fantasy, kate constable, tanith lee, thwwwp on Tuesday 18 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read an awful lot lately.
In just the past twenty four hours, I’ve read three books.
In the past month — September thus far, and part of August — I’ve technically read seventeen books. (Even more technically, nine: five of the nine being comprised of multiple previously published books published together for an anthology collection.) Four [...]
Accidental neighborhood travels.
Posted in irony, new york, obsession, tagged adventure, irony, shoes, yay on Tuesday 18 September 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today was not the first time I’ve accidentally ended up in Spanish Harlem. Today it was because of a pair of shoes.
I ordered a pair of shoes on Payless.com a while ago and had them shipped to a local (so I thought) Payless store to save myself the $5 shipping cost. Naturally they arrive and [...]
Long time no post. Bleaaaargh.
Posted in fantasy, obsession, reading, review, theory, tagged fantasy, first person narration, realism, robin mckinley, supernatural, vampires on Wednesday 1 August 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So. I’ll catch you up on more of the, er, New York City details later. For now, I have to get this book out of my system… a little.
I’ve just finished Sunshine by Robin McKinley, and it’s gotten me thinking about a lot of things, not the least of which is writing. But also of [...]
Almost done…
Posted in academics, obsession, writing, tagged award, speech, surprise, thesis, yay on Sunday 13 May 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My computer is officially driving me nuts. I’ve wanted to murder it quite a number of times. Despite its shiny screen and the cute-seeming façade it puts up… it’s really crappy. No memory, no hard drive space — crap, and in the useless, outdated way. Hell, just to write this I’ve had several freeze-ups [...]
I finished my thesis!
Posted in academics, obsession, reading, tagged poetry, shakespeare, thesis, yay on Thursday 26 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
But first, Sonnet 148 by Shakespeare for your sensual pleasure:
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not [...]
