Yesterday, I hit the 151 page mark of the SF miniseries Paul and I are working on. That's 12 acts down and four to go! I celebrated by going out for a nice dinner. Surprisingly, it's been a while since I sat down to an inspired multi-course meal. Even more surprisingly was where we enjoyed…
May 24, 2012: My tortured soul. And eyes.
If what they say is true about the eyes being the mirror to the soul, then my soul must be tortured because my eyes are positively tortuous (April 6, 2012: Tortuosity and Dark Matter!). Yes, it's true. My last visit to the opthamologist confirmed it. My eyes are, indeed, tortuous - meaning my retinal vessels are,…
May 23, 2012: Lulu scampers loudly and carries a big stick!
I was sidetracked today by an eye doctor's appointment, several phone calls, and a slew of emails that kept me from the task at hand - that task being, of course, the SF (near future) miniseries I'm writing with Paul. In order to keep to my act a day pace, it looks like I'll have…
May 22, 2012: Running the miniseries marathon! And the Dark Matter TPB is on its way!
If this miniseries were a marathon, these last two legs would have been all uphill. I'm exhausted but have passed the halfway mark and, while I forge ahead, keeping to my grueling act a day pace, Paul is following a few steps back - reading, revising and making sure everything actually makes sense. Once I…
May 21, 2012: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Blankman!
Calling dis movie "a comedy" be like calling orange soda "juice". Blankman aktually offer less den 5% of de daily rekommended serving of laffs. It start promising enuf, den go downhill faster den a carob birtday cake delivery truck wit no brakes. Or a movie written by a ten year old - which me suspekt…
May 20, 2012: Disappointing Dinners!
The plan was to get together with the boys this afternoon and continue our Game of Thrones season 2 marathon (this is how guys spend Sunday afternoon's during the NFL off-season), but schedules didn't line up (Ivon has a meeting with his parole officer, while Lawren's girlfriend is hosting her Oprah's book club meeting and…
May 19, 2012: Amateur Blogging Made Difficult: My Top Ten Tips for the Online Personal Journalerer. Er.
So, despite having done this for over five years now, I apparently break all the fundamental rules of successful blogging. I don't market my blog, make money off it through advertising, stick to a single niche or dedicated theme, and, perhaps worst of all, do not limit myself to the recommended weekly entry. Instead, my…
May 18, 2012: Dark Matter artist Garry Brown answers your questions!
When my editor at Dark Horse, Patrick Thorpe, asked me which artist I wanted to work with on Dark Matter, I had a difficult time offering a name. Yes, there are plenty of comic book artists whose work I greatly admire but, being a relative newcomer to the field, I didn't feel right pitching someone…
May 17, 2012: Ghost, Burglar, Hitman, or Honest Mistake? You decide!
You ever have one of those mornings where you're awakened by the sustained whine of your home alarm? You stumble out of bed and are in the midst of deactivating it, wondering: a ) how your girlfriend could have forgotten about it before letting the dogs out and b) why she hadn't deactivated it herself,…
May 16, 2012: A Major Mailbag! Includes: The scoop on the Dark Matter trade paperback! T.V. thoughts! And where I would like to see the Stargate: Universe movie go!
Well, last night I received a call from my writing partner, Paul. It was the call I suspected and expected and altogether dreaded. He was a couple of days into his pass on the first four acts I'd written and, while things were going well, they were also progressing slowly. "I don' t know what…
May 15, 2012: The Supermovie of the Week Club Reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Meteor Man!
Meteor Man written and directed by Robert Townsend. To be honest, me prefer his Chinatown. Still, monster surprized me not hate dis movie. Sure, it all sortz of stoopid and itz hero as interesting as a deli sandwitch named after David Caruso, but it not all bad. Only mostly bad. After opening theme muzik dat…
May 14, 2012: The Adventures of Mr. Fix-It! Today’s Episode = DVR Disaster!
A technician came by the house today to swap out my old working-just-fine satellite receivers and DVR's for new as-yet-untested-but-so-far-really-inconvenient versions of both. He arrived early, about an hour into the five hour ETA window, stepped inside, took one look at the dogs and asked if I could put them in the other room. No…
May 13, 2012: Happy Mother’s Day!
I celebrated by being doubly prolific and completing not one but two acts, 25 pages, and hitting the 57 page mark. I was conservatively gunning for 30 by tomorrow so I'm more than pleased - and, thus, won't feel at all guilty about going out to dinner and then taking the night off to watch…
May 12, 2012: 2 Acts down, 14 to go! And why not join our Supermovie of the Week Club?
The miniseries I'm presently writing has required a fair amount of research. Over the past few weeks, my online investigations have covered cyber-terrorism, computer worms and viruses, online anonymity, the NSA (National Security Agency), the FBI, Missile Defense Systems, nuclear power schematics, and the White House administration. In short, every google search sure to set…
May 11, 2012: 15 down, 165 to go!
The plan was to get the first act of the mini-series written today and that's what I'm going to do - even if it means I'm staying up all night to do it. I've been working all day and have roughly fifteen pages under my belt. Roughly two more to go and then I'm done.…