drupagliassotti @ July 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Great Yokai War (2005, Takashi Miike, PG-13) is cheezy beerfest fun in the sfx spirit of Sid and Marty Krofft and Ray Harryhausen. Get a gang of adults who liked Godzilla and H.R. Pufnstuff, a few sixers (Kirin beer fits best with the movie’s theme), and rent it.
Now, if you’re familiar with extreme Japanese […]
drupagliassotti @ July 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I remember reading Perfume many years ago and liking some parts of it but not others. The movie, which I just finished, strikes me in the same way.
The visual re-creation of smelly, sordid, overcrowded 1700s France is wonderful (of course I’d like that!), and the “chemistry” of perfume-making is fascinating. Serial killer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille’s […]
drupagliassotti @ July 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
My favorite costume at Borders was a tiny little girl in an owl outfit with a big letter addressed to Harry Potter around her neck. Finished the book Saturday and handed it off; Dad’ll read it this week, then Leah will take it next (she decided she’d let him have first dibs so that she […]
drupagliassotti @ July 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m up early in order to get to Borders well before 9, which is when I pick up my wristband for the midnight sale of Deathly Hallows. Alas, when I ordered the book, back when it was first offered — what, January? earlier? — I didn’t know I’d be in Oxnard for the weekend, which […]
drupagliassotti @ July 11, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Richard Bachman’s (Stephen King’s) Blaze is better than I expected for an old trunk novel brushed off, revised, and set up to benefit the Haven Foundation, which supports freelance artists down on their luck. But, like his The Colorado Kid, this is crime fiction, not horror, so don’t go into it misled by the spooky-looking […]
drupagliassotti @ July 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Martin Jerrold books were light, and now I'm moving back into heavier territory. Picked up Farewell to Manzanar, Remembering Manzanar, Years of Infamy and Folktales of Japan to finish up my story outlining. In the meantime, I've been skimming through God on Your Own: Finding a Spiritual Path Outside Religion by Joseph Dispenza, but […]
drupagliassotti @ July 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
My story Changing the End is now published in Anotherealm. I wrote the story after reading the umpteen-hundredth story about someone entering a mass transit vehicle and discovering that s/he’s in hell. I routinely reject those stories, so I thought it’d be a challenge to write one on the theme that did something a little […]
drupagliassotti @ July 6, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Death’s Dominion by Simon Clark is a kinda nifty take on zombies that moves them away from Romero’s shambling brain-eaters. In this case, science has found a way to revive the dead as super-fit human specimens who are guided by, well, more or less the first two of the three laws of robotics: don’t harm […]
drupagliassotti @ July 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
…as I send off a query to Carnifex Press about my novella An Agreement with Hell, which they wanted to see in December. We’re past the six-months-of-silence mark, so…. But I’m terrified that the act of querying will trigger a rejection.
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drupagliassotti @ July 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Here’s my story Night Shift at Worlds of Wonder. For the Samru crowd, it’s a Cislunar story with duBaton.
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