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After an unusually long period of effectiveness the Google/Blogger spam-filters stopped working some months ago. Or maybe the spammers final...

HBO has officially picked up George RR Martin's "Game of Thrones" for a full 10-episode season . From the Hollywood Reporter :...

The wife and I bought an '07 Prius from a CarMax on Saturday. We'd been circling and circling the new Honda Insight, test driving it...

This is pretty amazing. Starting with a blank PhotoShop canvas, this guy, Nico DiMatttia, re-creates a very nearly photo-realistic still of ...

I saw "Shutter Island" on Friday. Sorry. I've told you too much already. Anyway! I also finished a novel by Lorrie Moore calle...

I finished reading "2666" this morning. The wife went to the Capitol Building this morning to lobby on behalf of Planned Parenthoo...

I had a whole post going about what's been going on for most of the month of January (and the last week of December), but then I started...

This is NOT a cat video blog. It is mostly a dead blog, but it is most assuredly NOT a cat video blog. But here is a great cat video.

To get a blue wristband, the wristband that guarantees your book gets signed, we had to send two emails at midnight on November 5th. Before ...

Three things, and three things real quick. 1.) "The Men Who Stare at Goats". Checked this out on Sunday night after an exhausting ...

George R.R. Martin, arguably the best fantasy writer working today, has written four books in the Song of Ice and Fire series, the first of ...

So many stories to tell, so little time. Especially for the graphic novelist. Comic book writer and artist Doug TenNapel is the focus of a s...

The new full "Avatar" trailer is up . I'm both more heartened by the fuller glimpse and a bit more disappointed. I'm heart...

Sometimes a movie can single-handedly kill an entire sub-genre. It can tackle it and subvert the conventions so slyly that the genre either ...

Sorry I've been more than slack updating this thing. In what I hope to be the start of a fresh spate of new blog entries, here is a com...

Josh Olson, who adapted "A History of Violence" for the movies, got burned in one of those "Will you read my screenplay?...

Saw this over on Andrew Sullivan's blog and he's right, it's hypnotic. The music, not so much. But it's fascinating to take...

The wife and I went to the 2009 Decatur Book Festival on Saturday (for my entry about the 2006 Decatur Book Festival, click here ). The Grea...

The trailer for "Avatar," Jim Cameron's long overdue follow-up to the blockbuster-against-which-all-others-are measured ...