Subtle Bluntness

Well, I saw two movies in the last two weeks, Jennifer’s Body and Surrogates.  Jennifer’s Body was fun horror/comedy, and Surrogates was kind of fun (because of Bruce Willis) sci-fi/action, but it was Surrogates that got my brain a-scrambling like a midget on a treadmill.  Well, it was a combination of Surrogates and this quote [...]

I got nothin’.  People (me) say it all the time, but I’ve been blogging my ass off for quite some time, and I’ve gotten to a point where I’ve kind of started to run dry on drive, energy, or whatever it is that makes for a quality blog post.  I still have the ideas, honestly, [...]

Wired: But “real” for you is so … unreal. You set The Strain in New York. In the past, your depictions of the city, from Mimic to Blade II to Hellboy, have had a fabulous aspect.
del Toro: It comes from my first trip to New York as a child. I was walking around Central Park, [...]

Mars:  Omg, there is a bird outside tweeting its head off.  I want to throw hot coffee on it.
Ron:  Someone should sign him up for blogging instead of Twitter!
Ron:  Oh, wait
Mars:  … hahaha

That’s right, 10 Things Movies Teach Us About Virus Outbreaks made front page over at the IMDB (as well as Fark).  Damn, it feels good to be a gangster.

So this week I’ve managed to dig my way out of a gigantic pile of freelance work.  I’m one of the unlucky folks who simply can’t get started without a lot of time pressure, so that means that in a few short days I’ve driven myself to make a list of projects and actually finish [...]

I undertook the challenge on a whim, but I finished it out and I’m incredibly proud of myself.  NaBloPoMo, at least for this month, is over.  I’m kind of looking forward to the day where I don’t glance at the clock, mutter curse words under my breath, and then realize that I have to post [...]

I had a friend of mine who started a nascent music blog a few weeks ago.  He recently tracked me down and asked me a bunch of questions about blogging.  It’s no secret that most of my friends know I get paid to maintain blogs and that I’ve gotten a couple of freelance articles published.  [...]

I have a question for my fellow NaBloPoMofos out there.   Since you started posting daily, have you noticed a sharp uptick in traffic for your blog?  I certainly have.  Whether it’s from my posts being better in content or due to the magic of regular and steady updates, my blog has gone up pretty sharply [...]

One of the things I tend to do on weekends, despite myself, is completely disconnect from everything not related to sports or bad TV movies on the Sci-Fi Channel.  I’ll read my friends’ blogs (usually all at once late at night when I’ve got free time), but other than that I don’t really pay attention [...]