The Kingdom of the Fish
May 23Within the kingdom of the fish the fisher-king is king his hooks, his lures bring surcease sweet to those who sway beneath his sway and at his plate sublimely meet the tines, the teeth, the palate grey the finless flay, the stingless sting Within the kingdom of the fish the fisher-king is strong each darting [...]
Poe and the Pug Dog
May 20Edgar Allan Poe is famous for anticipating and/or inspiring developments in later writers; the Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, were prompted by Poe’s Dupin trilogy (though Conan Doyle has Holmes dismiss Dupin as a “very inferior fellow”), while the central plot twist in Around the World in 80 Days derives from Poe’s “Three Sundays in [...]
Trip Pics III: Two Libertopias
May 13I’ve just posted photos from both the first Libertopia conference (Hollywood, 2010 – 2 pages) and the second Libertopia conference (San Diego, 2011 – 5 pages). You may recognise some familiar faces. Isn’t Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn cool? I used to pass by there as a kid and wonder what it was like inside.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
May 08I enjoyed the Avengers movie quite a bit, but I did have some problems with it, and one of them is Loki. In Thor, Loki was a complex, nuanced, somewhat sympathetic antagonist; in The Avengers he’s just pure malevolence, which is less interesting. Actually that was my chief quarrel with the second Hulk movie too. [...]
B5 Baker Street
May 07Twitter exchange between Straczynski and Moffat here and here, over Sherlock. It occurs to me that both writers have featured season finales involving the series protagonist apparently falling to his death.
Where the Ruffalo Roam
May 05Thus spake Marvel Studios star-tsar Kevin Feige: There had been discussion as to where to take … the part [of the Hulk] and Joss [Whedon] had some ideas. He came to us and said, “I’d like to think about another actor,” and we said, “Well, much of what we like about The Avengers is we’re [...]
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